Scenes
from the Gulf of Mexico11 june
Oil covered brown pelicans found off the Louisiana
coast and affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of
Mexico wait in a holding pen for cleaning at the Fort Jackson Oiled
Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras, Louisiana, June 9, 2010. (SAUL
LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
2An
American Egret takes flight from an oil-impacted marsh along the
Louisiana coast Monday, June, 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
#3Sheila
Clark, widow of Donald Clark who was killed in the April 20 Deepwater
Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, listens as U.S. Senator
Charles Schumer speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill June
10, 2010 in Washington, DC. Family members of the 11 victims of the
explosion called on the Senate to ensure that the oil and drilling
companies responsible for the tragedy. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
#4A
hard hat from an oil worker lies in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil
spill on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana June 8, 2010. (REUTERS/Lee
Celano)
#5The
feet of Rebecca Thomasson, of Knoxville, Tennessee are covered in oil
after walking along the beach as oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill
washes ashore in Gulf Shores, Alabama on June 4, 2010. (AP
Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, David Bundy)
#6A
helicopter flies over livestock with sandbags, Tuesday, June 8, 2010 in
Buras, Louisiana. Efforts to protect the area from the Deepwater
Horizon oil spill continue. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
#7A
worker walks past a fountain of sand from a dredge as it is pumped onto
East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana to provide a barrier against the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill Tuesday, June 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie
Riedel)
#8Oil
from the Deepwater Horizon spill pools against the Louisiana coast
along Barataria Bay Tuesday, June 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
#9APTN
photographer Rich Matthews dives into the water to take a closer look
at oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill on June 7, 2010 in the Gulf of
Mexico south of Venice, Louisiana. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
#10Patches
of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill are seen from an underwater
vantage, Monday, June 7, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice,
Louisiana. (AP Photo/Rich Matthews)
#11A
sea turtle is mired in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on
Grand Terre Island, Louisiana June 8, 2010. (REUTERS/Lee Celano)
#12Oil
slicks move toward the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama, Saturday, June 5,
2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has started washing
ashore on the Alabama and Florida coast beaches. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
#13Clumps
of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill splash in the surf on a beach
in Gulf Shores, Alabama on June 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Montgomery
Advertiser, David Bundy)
#14Oil
sheen is seen streaking under the Perdido Pass Bridge from the spill in
the Gulf of Mexico off the Alabama coast as viewed from a Coast Guard
HC-144A plane Thursday, June 10, 2010 in Perdido, Alabama. (AP
Photo/Mobile Press-Register, John David Mercer)
#15An
exhausted oil-covered brown pelican tries to climb over an oil
containment boom along Queen Bess Island Pelican Rookery, 3 miles
northeast of Grand Isle, Louisiana June 5, 2010. Wildlife experts are
working to rescue birds from the rookery which has been affected by BP's
Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and transporting them to the Fort Jackson
Rehabilitation Center. (REUTERS/Sean Gardner)
#16A
bird rescue team captures an oiled pelican for cleaning on Cat Island
in Barataria Bay June 6, 2010 near Grand Isle, Louisiana. (Win
McNamee/Getty Images)
#17Tim
Kimmel of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service carries an pelican covered
in oil from a nesting area to a waiting boat in Barataria Bay,
Louisiana June 5, 2010. The pelican was successfully transported to a
stabilization center on Grand Isle, Louisiana before being taken to the
Fort Jackson Wildlife Rehabilitation Center at Venice, Louisiana for
cleaning. (REUTERS/Petty Officer 2nd Class John D. Miller/US Coast
Guard)
#18Brown
Pelicans, covered in oil from BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, huddle
together in a cage at the International Bird Rescue Research Center in
Buras, Louisiana June 6, 2010. (REUTERS/Lee Celano)
#19Workers
clean a Brown Pelican covered in oil at a rescue center at a facility
set up by the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Buras,
Louisiana on Saturday, June 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
#20Members
of the media photograph volunteers as they clean oil covered pelicans
found off the Louisiana coast at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife
Rehabilitation Center in Buras, Louisiana, June 9, 2010. (SAUL
LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
#21A
volunteer uses a toothbrush to clean an oil covered white pelican found
off the Louisiana coast at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife
Rehabilitation Center in Buras, Louisiana, June 9, 2010. (SAUL
LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
#22Volunteer
Cassen Pulaski cleans an oiled Brown Pelican at a rescue center at a
facility in Fort Jackson, Louisiana June 7, 2010. Two hundred and ninety
two birds have been brought to the center over a six week period.
Eighty-six have been brought in on Sunday. These birds are being rescued
and transported to the Fort Jackson Rehabilitation Center by
well-trained and knowledgeable wildlife responders, veterinarians,
biologists and wildlife rehabilitators. (REUTERS/Sean Gardner)
#23Brown
pelicans recently cleaned of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill are
seen in a holding area at the International Bird Rescue Research Center
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 in Buras, Louisiana. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
#24A
worker uses a suction hose to remove oil that has washed ashore from
the Deepwater Horizon spill, Sunday, June 6, 2010 in Grand Isle,
Louisiana. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
#25A
suction hose is used to remove oil washed ashore from the Deepwater
Horizon spill, Wednesday, June 9, 2010, in Belle Terre, Louisiana. (AP
Photo/Eric Gay)
#26Ed
and Lucy Waltz of Leroy, Illinois, walk to the beach in Gulf Shores,
Alabama, Monday, June 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
#27Marine
reef ecologist Scott Porter works to remove oil from the Deepwater
Horizon spill from his hands on Monday, June 7, 2010, in the Gulf of
Mexico south of Venice, Louisiana. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
#28This
image from high resolution video made June 3, 2010, and provided by BP
PLC Wednesday morning, June 9, 2010, shows oil continuing to pour out at
the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP
Photo/BP PLC)
#29A
controlled burn of oil from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill sends
towers of fire hundreds of feet into the air over the Gulf of Mexico
June 9. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer First Class John
Masson)
#30NASA's
Aqua satellite flew over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, June 10th,
2010 and the satellite's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
(MODIS) instrument captured this image of the thickest part of the oil
slick. In the image, the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is positioned
in sunglint. In the sunglint region - where the mirror-like reflection
of the Sun gets blurred into a wide, bright silvery-gray strip -
differences in the texture of the water surface may be enhanced. In the
thickest part of the slick, oil smooths the water, making it a better
"mirror." Areas where thick oil cover the water are nearly white in this
image. Additional oil may also be present. (
NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center)
#31Gas
is flared off on the Discovery Enterprise drilling ship which is
collecting oil at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast Wednesday, June 9, 2010. (AP
Photo/Charlie Riedel)
#32Oil
from the Deepwater Horizon spill coats marsh grass at the Louisiana
coast along Barataria Bay Tuesday, June 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie
Riedel)
#33A
brown pelican coated in heavy oil wallows in the surf June 4, 2010 on
East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
#34An
oiled brown pelican tries to take flight from Barataria Bay while oil
slicks float past June 6, 2010 near Grand Isle, Louisiana. (Win
McNamee/Getty Images)
#35Oil
absorbent booms lie coiled together near Queen Bess Island as clean up
operations of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill continue in off the
coast of Louisiana Tuesday, June 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
#36A
dead young egret covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead is
turned over to wildlife rescue team near Bird Island in Barataria Bay,
Louisiana just off the Gulf of Mexico June 7, 2010. (REUTERS/Jose Luis
Magana/Greenpeace)
#37A
dead turtle floats on a pool of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in
Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana Monday, June, 7, 2010. (AP
Photo/Charlie Riedel)
#38Unidentified
BP contract workers remove oil related material on Santa Rosa Island,
Florida on Wednesday June 9, 2010. (AP Photo/The News Journal/Tony
Giberson)
#39Hermit
crabs struggle to cross a patch of oil from the the Deepwater Horizon
spill on a barrier island near East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana on
Sunday, June 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
#40An
oiled White Ibis is seen at an unnamed island in Barataria Bay off the
coast of Louisiana Tuesday, June 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
#41Streaks
of oil sheens are seen north of the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil
spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the Alabama coast as viewed from a Coast
Guard HC-144A plane Thursday, June 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Mobile
Press-Register, John David Mercer)
#More links and information
Gulf
of Mexico Oil Spill (2010) - NYTimes.com Topics page
Volunteers
moved to join oil disaster response - CNN.com
Deepwater
Horizon Response - Official site
Live
Video Streams - Feeds from remotely operated vehicles in the Gulf
of Mexico via BP
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