Friday, May 7, 2010

Giant box lowered in Gulf to battle oil spill (AP)

 

The containment  vessel is lowered into the Gulf of Mexico at the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig collapse, Thursday, May 6, 2010.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - A mission to the bottom of the sea to try to avert a wider environmental disaster began as crews eased a 100-ton concrete-and-steel box a mile deep in an unprecedented attempt to capture gushing oil from a blown-out well on the Gulf floor.

Giant box lowered in Gulf to battle oil spill (AP)
Fri, 07 May 2010 07:43:30 GMT

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