What's going on: Huge underwater oil plumes form in Gulf of Mexico

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Charlie Riedel / The Associated PressErica Miller (left) and Heather Nevell clean a brown pelican Saturday at the Fort Jackson Wildlife Rehabilitation Center at Buras, La. The bird was rescued after being exposed an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil platform more than three weeks ago.

From The Associated Press:

Robert, La. -- Oil from a blown-out well is forming huge underwater plumes as much as 10 miles long below the visible slick in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists said as BP wrestled for a third day today with its latest contraption for slowing the nearly month-old gusher.
BP, the largest oil and gas producer in the U.S., has been unable to thread a tube into the leak to siphon the crude to a tanker, its third approach to stopping or reducing the spill on the ocean floor. Engineers remotely steering robot submersibles were trying again today to fit the tube into a breach nearly a mile below the surface, BP said.

» Huge oil plumes found under Gulf as BP struggles [The Associated Press]
» Gulf oil spill: real disaster might be lurking beneath the surface [The Christian Science Monitor]
» Gulf oil spill could result in biggest environmental and maritime litigation case in U.S. [The Times-Picayune]
» Graphic: How the oil spill happened [The Times-Picayune]