An oil spill boom to restrain the passage past the boom of oil spilt onto water. The boom comprises a plurality of alignable interconnectable floats, a continuous screen barrier extending through, between, above and below the floats with the part below the floats formed of two walls spread apart at the bottom to provide an open bottom water ballast chamber, props and stays to support the screen barrier erected.

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