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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Karl has been Purch's infographics specialist across all editorial properties since 2010. Before joining Purch, Karl spent 11 years at the New York headquarters of The Associated Press, creating news graphics for use around the world in newspapers and on the web. He has a degree in graphic design from Louisiana State University.
