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Inmate laborers' erect a barrier fence around a stockpile of absorbent oil booms in the port of Venice, that will be used to soak up some of the oil slick from the BP Deepwater Horizon platform disaster in Louisiana, on May 6, 2010. The race to avert an oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico intensified with BP rushing to lower a dome to contain the spill, while sheen was confirmed on land for the first time. The unprecedented operation to place the 100 US ton (90 metric tonne) dome over a gushing pipe on the seabed is seen as the best hope in staving off the biggest US environmental disaster since the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. The white box-like structure will be lowered 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) onto a pipe that was fractured by the April 22 sinking of a BP-leased oil rig. It will then be connected to a tanker on the surface. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON
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Venice, Louisiana, UNITED STATES |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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MARK RALSTON |
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7 Mai 2010 |
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4071 x 2658 (1.34 MB) |
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