local boatmen and boat owners can register their boat to do work on the water. it can be anything from deploying boom to inspecting boom to seeing if it is damaged to reporting. yesterday we hit one of our best days since we started this response. we had a total of 443 vessels of opportunity working around alabama. i will give you a sense of where they are at. 1 vessels operating out of dolphin island. 142 vessels and 143 from home port marinas over in baldwin county. and 3 vessels from fair hope. we are trying to optimize local knowledge on the water, what these folks know, their expertise and talent. the second thing is our qualified community responder program. we started this for the local communities in alabama, mississippi and florida. what we are trying to do is find unemployed individuals that would like to seek training and get involved in the response. the goal is to train about 1,500 in alabama and 1,500 in mississippi and in florida. to date we trained 2,700 individuals. they are ready to deploy. 898 in alabama, 344 in florida. to date there are anot

we have a vessel opportunity system where local boatmen and boat owners can come and register their boats to do work on the water, anything from inspecting booms, observing oil concentration, anything that will help our response. yesterday, we had a total of 443 vessels of opportunity working around alabama. i want to give you a sense of where they were at. 61 vessels out of daulphin island. 74 out of dog river. 142 from bayou lebatre. 23 vessels from fairhope. we're trying to optimize the local knowledge, expertise, and talent. i would also like to talk about our qualified community responder program. what we're trying to do is find unemployed individuals that would like to seek training and get involved in this response. the goal is to train over 4000 people across these states, 1500 in alabama, 1500 in mississippi, 1500 in florida. we have trained 2700 individuals and they are ready to deploy. 898 in alabama, 1500 in mississippi, and 344 in florida. there are 1900 individuals scheduled for training. the types of tasks today are involved include carrying in handling the material and sup

we have a vessel opportunity system where local boatmen and boat owners can come and register their votes to do work on the water, anything from -- boats to do work on the water, anything from inspecting booms, observing oil concentration, anything that will help our response. yesterday, we had a total of 443 vessels of opportunity working around alabama. i want to give you a sense of where they were at. daulphins out of island. 23 vessels from fairhope. we're trying to optimize the local knowledge, expertise, and talent. i would also like to talk about are qualified community and responder program -- our qualified community responder program. what we're trying to do is find unemployed individuals that would like to seek training and get involved in this response. the goal is to train over 4000 people across these states, 1500 in alabama, 1500 in mississippi, 1500 in florida. we have trained 2700 individuals and they are ready to deploy. 898 in alabama, 1500 in mississippi, and 344 in florida. there are 1900 individuals scheduled for training. the types of tasks today are involved include