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Oil booms
Out of work fishermen hired by BP PLC and crew boat workers lay oil booms in preparation for the looming oil spill from the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig at Elephant Pass, in a tributary of the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana Sunday, May 2, 2010.
Gerald Herbert/ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Oil booms
Out of work fishermen hired by BP PLC and crew boat workers lay oil booms in preparation for the looming oil spill from the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig at Elephant Pass, in a tributary of the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana Sunday, May 2, 2010.
Gerald Herbert/ASSOCIATED PRESS