Coast Guard Member Returns from Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico

Lt. Rob Wyman returns home

SAN DIEGO - U. S. Coast Guard Lt Rob Wyman of Coast Guard Sector San Diego recently returned from duty supporting Coast Guard oil recovery operations at the Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Lt. Wyman served as a Director of Branch Operations overseeing the coordination and deployment of multiple response assets from the local, state and federal governments involved in clean up and oil skimming operations along the Florida coast. Wyman’s assignment was instrumental to response and recovery efforts in the largest oil spill response in U.S. history.

Wyman has been a member of the Coast Guard Reserve since 1998. He is a 1990 graduate of the University of California, San Diego, and a resident of Long Beach, Calif.

In a matter of days, the government stood up a joint organization, integrating hundreds of Federal, state and local agencies, industry, and academia, to conduct an operation spanning 460,000 square miles of ocean--an area larger than the State of Texas and California combined--and 750 miles of shoreline, making this response the largest of this kind.

The government is overseeing an unprecedented, cutting edge operation at the sea floor, at 5,000 feet of depth. This operation encompasses the efforts of 100 private companies, including experts from nine oil companies, as well as the Coast Guard, Navy, Departments of Energy and the Interior, the EPA and at least three Federal labs.

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