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Hovering helicopters, Coast Guard boats and Maine Marine Patrol vessels will descend on Casco Bay tomorrow for a major oil-spill response drill.

As many as 1,000 emergency workers are expected to take part in the two-day drill that will be visible most of the morning from the Eastern Prom in Portland.

They will respond to an imaginary car carrier and an oil tanker crash in a strong winter storm, marked by frigid temperatures and limited visibility, somewhere 16 miles out in the Gulf of Maine.

Beth Quimby reports on Maine on the weekends, when most Mainers are off the job and anything can happen. She worked for newspapers since she was in high school when she started out on her father’s New...

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