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PUBLISHED ON: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:21:35 GMT, LAST UPDATED: 2010-07-31 09:17:08
SOURCE: Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - The helicopter passes over the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico — with surprisingly little oil visible on its surface — when out of the sea rises a skyscraper-like structure nearly 350 feet above the waves. The $600 million rig, nearly 100 miles off Louisiana's coast, has a hull larger than a football field and can drill more than 5 miles beneath the ocean floor.
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