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The spill flowing from the Transocean Deepwater Horizon wellhead grew to 1,800 square miles Monday afternoon, an area larger than the state of Rhode Island.
The slick measures an area of 48 miles long by 39 miles wide. It is moving north and spreading east and has moved to within 30 miles of the Chandeleur Islands . It is feared that the oil could wash up as far east as the white beaches of Pensacola, Florida.
BP PLC, which leased the sunken platform, has been deploying robot submarines to trigger valves to halt the leaks 5,000 feet under the Gulf of Mexico about 40 miles south of Louisiana. Company officials say that they will not know until at least Tuesday if this strategy is successful.
If it is not, a relief well will be drilled but that could take several weeks to accomplish.
Approximately 1,000 barrels, or 42,000 gallons of oil, are leaking every day.
11 workers are missing and presumed dead from the platform that exploded April 20 and sunk two days later.
Source: Associated Press
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