Oil Spill Disasters

Spill panel details goofs, hero in ending gusher

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In Brief...

A single picture from a cell phone camera may have saved the Gulf of Mexico from a few more weeks - if not months - of oil gushing from the BP well.. BP ( BP - news - people ) wanted the cap to remain and the well to stay shut, but government science advisers were firm and near unanimous in wanting the cap removed because of fear of bigger, more catastrophic spill, the report said. Just using that cell phone photo, Paul Hsieh, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist, created a model for what was happening under the cap. Both BP and the government were unprepared for capping a blowout well and cleaning up the mess it makes, the report said.. But given how unprepared they were, both BP and the government reacted quickly and impressively, the report said:

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