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Three days after BP said its latest attempt to stop oil gushing out into the Gulf of Mexico had failed, the company is turning to another risky procedure. BP plans to use robot submarines to cut away the riser pipe and place a containment valve over the blowout preventer. However, it’s likely to temporarily cause 20 per cent more oil (some 100000 gallons) to add to the spill daily.
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A young sea turtle, coated with rust-red oxidizing oil, struggles to climb onto a piece of driftwood to escape “dispersed” oil off Venice, LA. Our boat captain lifted the turtle out of the water, rinsed it in clean sea water, motored 2 miles away from the oil & released the turtle, who swam off like a little bottle rocket, looking much cleaner & more energetic than when we’d found it. Video Rating: 4 / 5
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