Overboard Oil Protection System
The simple flow thru OOPS filter works with any bilge pump and automatically removes both free and emulsified oils. If you don’t have the room or the budget or the need for a full blown BRUTE oil water separator system—this could be the answer. OOPS
OOPS? WHY? oh WHY? OOPS?
- it’s against the law to pump oil into the water!
- OOPS can save you from a $25,000. fine -- OOPS
The Federal Water Pollution Act (a.k.a. Clean Water Act) disallows even the appearance of a visible sheen on the water, punishable by a minimum $5,000 penalty. Oil content in your overboard discharge—over 15 ppm (that’s 15 parts per million) is illegal. If you can see sheen on the water—you’re already over legal limits! OOPS
- simply put—it’s the right thing to do!
- protects your rear end… . OOPS
Need more reasons?
THE FEDS ARE COMING*
Want to meet the EPA or Coast Guard to discuss your illegal oily discharge? Free oil or emulsions?
An oil water separator is a flow thru device designed to remove free (that’s floating) oils from a moving stream, but it can be fooled by an oily emulsion. The newest IMO 107 separators are followed by a specialty 0rganoclay filter that can remove even emulsified oils.
The OOPS Filter uses this new Organoclay filter media to remove both free AND emulsified oils from your overboard discharge. OOPS!
Overboard Oil Protection System
OOPS Filter sizes available for all boats
OOPS Filters install easily on your bilge pump discharge line.
The SkimOil OOPS system includes a filter housing AND the OOPS filter which removes oil, gas, diesel fuel and other hydrocarbons from the bilge water as it is discharged overboard. The OOPS filter cartridge is replaceable and this system even ships with one spare. Each 20” cartridge will remove up to a 1.5 pints of oil---before needing replacement. Once you own the housing and mount----filter replacements are cheap and easy to use----certainly compared to pollution! A pint of oil can cover almost an acre!
It’s simple to do the right thing!
* Until now most of the fishing industry vessels, smaller workboats, ferries and almost all recreational vessels have been pretty much overlooked regarding the amount of oil they put over. That’s all changed. Since the EPA was sued last year and the courts ORDERED compliance to the Clean Water Act. The feds now have very sophisticated sensors and equipment that can prove oil is yours!
Oil Pads and Socks
*A lot of boaters and vessels do use bilge socks and other absorbent devices to try and grab the fuels and oils, and most of them work just fine, for a while. It beats nothing for sure, BUT they don’t get near all the oil out!
It helps to know how these oils adsorb onto pads and socks. The word is adsorb―NOT absorb.
Adsorption is when the oils are attracted to and adhere to the surface of the fibers. Absorption is what a cotton t-shirt will do―pulling/wicking the liquid into the fiber’s core. The problem with absorbing―is that it will even wick water into it, while the adsorption only attracts oils onto the surface. Eventually, though, even the highest quality pad becomes saturated and loses its effectiveness.
Keep in mind that as easily as oils adsorb onto a socks fibers―when the boat and bilge water are in motion―the oils can just as easily be washed off.
The law says you have to get the oil content down to 15 ppm!
Pads/socks and blankets can only get you down to―maybe a few thousand PPM
OOPS Filters start at only $380.
Can you afford not to―OOPS?
sizes available for all boats and bilge pumps
