A vessel displaced onto a shallow marsh is rigged to have oily-water pumped out of its bilge and transferred to a temporary storage container on an environmental workboat staged at a deeper location (not pictured), Atlantic Beach, N.C., Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. The Emergency Support Function-10 Unified Command, made up of the U.S. Coast Guard and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, collaborated with assisting agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, and the Environmental Protection Agency for best practices to tackle pollution threats in environmentally-sensitive areas after Hurricane Florence. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Hillard)
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