Thursday June 03, 2010
Black Water Rising
Evan Thomas and Daniel Stone
Newsweek
As the oil continues to flow, the political and environmental fallout is just getting started.
The blowout preventer looks like a five-story fire hydrant. It weighs 325 tons and costs $18 million. At the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, it sits on the ocean floor, a mile deep, reachable only by robotic submarines in the murky and freezing currents.
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