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Sun May-16-10 11:51 AM
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2. 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots

ROBERT, La. -- Oil from a blown-out well is forming huge underwater plumes below a visible slick in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists said as BP wrestled for a third day Sunday with its latest contraption for slowing the nearly month-old gusher. One of the plumes is "as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots," the New York Times reported. "The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the government and BP have given."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/15/giant-oil-plumes-found-in_n_577654.html

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