Today's Disaster Update
MSNBC: Oil gushing at spill site after vent damaged
"Oil was again gushing from the BP spill site on Wednesday after the company was forced to remove the containment cap when a robotic submarine hit a vent. The news came as officials also reported two deaths of people who had been hired for the response effort."
Similarly from New York Times: More Oil Gushing Into Gulf After Problem With Cap
Which also states, "The current worst-case estimate of what's spewing into the Gulf is about 2.5 million gallons a day."
Meanwhile, on shore:
Reuters:Oil sludge washes in Florida, dolphin stranded Excerpts:
"June 23 - Florida saw its worst impact yet from the BP oil spill as thick oily sludge washed ashore on Pensacola Beach on Wednesday and emergency workers found an oil-covered dolphin stranded on the shore.
"State emergency workers said the pudding-like mixture covered 3 miles (5 km) of Pensacola Beach.
""It's just a line of black all the way down the beach as far as you can see in both directions. It's ruined," said Steve Anderson, a Pensacola fisherman."
""The smell hits you in the face [...] There are sheetrock-size balls of oil in the surf out there and they're still coming in."
"Small tar balls have washed ashore intermittently on beaches in the tourism-dependent western Florida Panhandle in the last couple of weeks, but large slicks of oil and tarry mats floated in on Wednesday.
"Governor Charlie Crist toured the area, prodding the oily goo with a stick. "We've seen tar balls but never this kind of stuff.""
"Oil was again gushing from the BP spill site on Wednesday after the company was forced to remove the containment cap when a robotic submarine hit a vent. The news came as officials also reported two deaths of people who had been hired for the response effort."
Similarly from New York Times: More Oil Gushing Into Gulf After Problem With Cap
Which also states, "The current worst-case estimate of what's spewing into the Gulf is about 2.5 million gallons a day."
Meanwhile, on shore:
Reuters:Oil sludge washes in Florida, dolphin stranded Excerpts:
"June 23 - Florida saw its worst impact yet from the BP oil spill as thick oily sludge washed ashore on Pensacola Beach on Wednesday and emergency workers found an oil-covered dolphin stranded on the shore.
"State emergency workers said the pudding-like mixture covered 3 miles (5 km) of Pensacola Beach.
""It's just a line of black all the way down the beach as far as you can see in both directions. It's ruined," said Steve Anderson, a Pensacola fisherman."
""The smell hits you in the face [...] There are sheetrock-size balls of oil in the surf out there and they're still coming in."
"Small tar balls have washed ashore intermittently on beaches in the tourism-dependent western Florida Panhandle in the last couple of weeks, but large slicks of oil and tarry mats floated in on Wednesday.
"Governor Charlie Crist toured the area, prodding the oily goo with a stick. "We've seen tar balls but never this kind of stuff.""