GULF OF MEXICO - Oil is collected in skimming boom attached to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Elm approximately 40 miles off the coast of Mobile, Ala., June 2, 2010. The cutter, a buoy tender homeported in Atlantic Beach, N.C., has been diverted from its routine duties to assist with the ongoing Administration-wide response to the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill. U.S. Coast Guard photo.