With oil still pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, engineers worked to shear off a broken riser pipe a mile below the surface and seat a containment cap over the failed blowout preventer.
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Inside the Blowout: What It Would Take to Stop the Oil a Mile Beneath the Gulf
A plain-language guide to the Deepwater Horizon spill: why the blowout preventer failed, the three plans to stop the leak, how crude behaves at sea, and how this spill compares to the worst on record.