Anatomy of the Gulf Oil Spill

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Here's a look under the hood at how officials, and their robots, are trying to stem the flow of oil leaking from the well beneath the seafloor in the Gulf of Mexico, after the rig Deepwater Horizon exploded and then sank on April 22, 2010. This graphic was udpated at 11:02 a.m. Thursday, April 29.

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