"Abandoned vessels pose a significant threat to the NOAA Trust resources through physical destruction of coral habitats and dispersion of toxic chemicals and gear. The Damage Assessment Center (DAC) is addressing this issue by creating a comprehensive dat...

"The NOAA Office of Response and Restoration's Abandoned Vessel Inventory is a compilation of vessels from many federal, state and local sources. While the inventory contains more than 2,000 records, this catalog is only a subset. Most of these vessels fo...

GNOME (General NOAA Operational Modeling Environment) is the modeling tool the Office of Response and Restoration's (OR&R) Emergency Response Division uses to predict the possible route, or trajectory, a pollutant might follow in or on a body of water...

NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) conducts projects to help understand and reduce the impact of abandoned vessels on coral reef ecosystems and to help local managers prevent and minimize impacts from hazardous material and oil releases....

DARP has responsibilities related to assessing and restoring coastal and marine resources injured by oil spills, hazardous substance releases, and vessel groundings. Visit the restoration section of the DARP library for restoration plans associated with i...