Patent ID: RE39971

Claim:
A portable containment for containing spilled material: said containment having a bottom, opposed end walls and opposed side walls formed of flexible material and forming a containment area; a flotation member carried by upper edges of at least said end walls; a plurality of braces connected with upper portions of at least one of said walls, said braces being positionable in locked upstanding positions in which said at least one wall is held in a raised position and a lowered folded position in which said at least one wall is in a down entry/exit position; a plurality of skids formed of low friction synthetic material arranged along said bottom supporting said braces between said folded position and said upstanding position; wherein, in response to upward movement of said at least one wall, said braces are adapted to slide along said skids from said folded position into said upstanding position maintaining said at least one wall in said raised position.