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Louisiana Oil Spill 2010 PHOTOS:
Gulf Of Mexico Disaster Unfolds

First Posted: 06- 1-10 01:24 PM
| Updated: 06-11-10 10:10 AM

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The catastrophic explosion that caused an oil spill from a BP offshore drilling rig
in the Gulf of Mexico has reached the shoreline. Efforts to manage the spill with controlled burning,
dispersal and plugging the leak have so far been unsuccessful.
This oil spill has now obtained the dubious distinction of being the worst oil spill in US history,
surpassing the damage done by the Exxon Valdez tanker that spilled 11 million gallons of oil into
the ecologically sensitive Prince William Sound in 1989. Unlike the Exxon Valdez tragedy, in which
a tanker held a finite capacity of oil, BP's rig is tapped into an underwater oil well and could pump
more oil into the ocean indefinitely until the leak is plugged.

Here are updated photos of oil hitting coastlines and the damage throughout the ocean,
which poses a serious threat to fishermen's livelihoods, marine habitats, beaches, wildlife and human health.

Do you live in an area that is being affected by the oil spill? Do you have photo or video of what's
happening on the coastlines? We want to see your on-the-ground photos.
Send them in by hitting the participate button.

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The glove-covered hands of Dan Howells,
deputy campaign director with Greenpeace, are
coated with a layer of oil after he dipped them in
oil floating on the surface in the Gulf of Mexico
following the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill near
Grand Isle, Louisiana, June 10, 2010.

(SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

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This image from video provided by BP PLC early Thursday morning, June 10, 2010
shows oil continuing to pour out at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.
The containment cap on the ruptured well is capturing 630,000 gallons a day and pumping it to a ship at the surface.
The government has estimated 600,000 to 1.2 million gallons are leaking per day, but a scientist on a
task force studying the flow said the actual rate may be between 798,000 gallons and 1.8 million.


(AP Photo/BP PLC) NO SALES

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Workers prepare to lay snare boom used remove oil
washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill,
Wednesday, June 9, 2010, in Belle Terre, La.


(AP Photo/Eric Gay)


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A worker's boot is covered in oil washed ashore
from the Deepwater Horizon spill Wednesday,
June 9, 2010, in Belle Terre, La.

(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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In this June 7, 2010 photo-image, acquired by the
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on
NASA%u2019s Terra satellite, at least part of the oil slick is
pale gray. A large area of oil is southeast of the Mississippi Delta,
at the site of the leaking British Petroleum well.
Traces of thick oil are also visible farther north.
The Deepwater Horizon Unified Response reported oil washing ashore
and immediately offshore in eastern Alabama and northwestern Florida
on June 7, and this oil is not visible in the image.

(AP Photo/NASA)

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A worker uses a suction hose to remove oil washed ashore
from the Deepwater Horizon spill,
Wednesday, June 9, 2010, in Belle Terre, La.

(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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A suction hose is used to remove oil washed
ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill,
Wednesday, June 9, 2010, in Belle Terre, La..

(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Workers use a suction hose to remove oil washed
ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill,
Wednesday, June 9, 2010, in Belle Terre, La.

(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Workers remove oil that continues to wash ashore
from the Deepwater Horizon spill,
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 in Grand isle, La.

(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill pools
against the Louisiana coast along
Barataria Bay Tuesday, June 8, 2010.

(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill coats
marsh grass at the Louisiana coast along
Barataria Bay Tuesday, June 8, 2010.

(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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WASHINGTON - JUNE 09: Commercial fisher-woman
Diane Wilson of Seadrift, Texas, pours a jar of syrup
made to look like oil over herself as a U.S. Captiol Police officer
drags her from a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
hearing about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill June 9, 2010
in Washington, DC. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar testified before
the committee about the Obama Administration's increased
safety regulations of energy exploration on the
Outer Continental Shelf in the wake of the ongoing
BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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PENSACOLA, FL - JUNE 06: Charlie Green is overcome
with emotion during a public prayer vigil for the oil spill
along Pensacola Beach where oil globs have come ashore
as oil continues to flow from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
on June 6, 2010 in Pensacola, Florida. The vigil was put
on by the Pensacola Beach Community Church.

Reports indicate that BP's latest plan to stem the flow
of oil from the site of the Deepwater Horizon incident
may be having some sucess.

(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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GULF SHORES, AL - JUNE 08: Workers pick up oil patches and tar
that washed up on the beach at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge
from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
on June 8, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Early reports indicate
that BP's latest plan to stem the flow of oil from the site of the
Deepwater Horizon incident may be having some success.

(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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An oil sheen is seen near the site of the
Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday,
June 8, 2010. The cap over the broken BP wellhead is
collecting more gushing crude day by day, but that's about
the extent of the details known as authorities try to pinpoint
how much oil is escaping, where it's going and what harm it will cause.

(AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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Patches of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill are burned
in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday, June 8, 2010.
The cap over the broken BP wellhead is collecting
more gushing crude day by day, but that's about the
extent of the details known as authorities try to pinpoint
how much oil is escaping, where it's going and what harm it will cause.

(AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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Marine reef ecologist Scott Porter works to remove oil
from the Deepwater Horizon spill off his hands,
Monday, June 7, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico south
of Venice, La..

(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Patches of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill are seen
from an underwater vantage, Monday, June 7, 2010,
in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice, La..

(AP Photo/Rich Matthews)

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Patches of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill are seen
from an underwater vantage, Monday, June 7, 2010,
in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice, La..

(AP Photo/Rich Matthews)

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