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The material provided to the park Sunday containment box oil giant Gulf down Mexico and unloading equipment that could be used in a further attempt to stop the jet flow to the sea

The team that has been downloaded from another ship to use a tube for firing the clay and concrete plug directly into the well blowout, a process that could take two to three weeks. But a spokesman for BP PLC, said Mark Proegler no decision has been taken on what happened that the company will be next.

The company has been reviewed several options, including a technique known as a murder "from above", said Proegler.

The equipment provided to ensure the big box about 1,600 meters from the site of the massive flight much farther from where he was held Saturday after crystals icelike hampered elite when it was finished, according to a daily activity sheet considered by the shareholders Press.

It could be at least one day before the PA can another attempt to put a lid on one of the thousands of liters of oil spewing into the Gulf each day.

Waves of mud brown and dark black crashed into a boat in the area above the leak. The smoke was so intense that a member of the crew of Joe Griffin and a photographer The Associated Press on board had to wear breathing apparatus to the outside.

On deck, a cattle egret landed, color brown spots on your face and oil on his chest, wings and tail.

first attempt to divert the oil company has been foiled her mission now seriously in doubt. As a result, large drops of tar appeared in the white sand beaches of Alabama, another indicates that the spill spreads.

It took two weeks to make the case and three days at the containment box 50 miles Commercial descend slowly and for many a mile below the surface, but were too frozen. PA officials have not given up hope a containment box – it was under construction – could cover the pan. But they said it could be Monday or later before decide to make another attempt to capture the oil and a funnel oil to the surface.

"I'm not saying it is not yet, "said BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles containment box." What we say is what I want to … did not work. "

Sunday morning, there was little visible activity on the new site of oil spill. The sky was clear, but the waves of the sea have been lifting and the wind was more gay than previous days.

There was a renewed sense of urgency as a golf ball ball dime companies tar wash Saturday to Dauphin Island, three miles off the mainland of Alabama at the mouth of Mobile Bay and much more to the east the thin bright rainbow coming sporadically in the swamps of Louisiana.

"It almost looks like the bark, but when you pick it certainly has a liquid consistency, and is certainly the oil, "said Kimberly Creel, 41, who was out and swim with hundreds of other swimmers. "… I can only imagine what might be coming this way could be greater."

Approximately half dozen balls of tar had met Saturday night in Dauphin Island, Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Adam Wine said to Mobile and crews in protective clothing were patrolling the beach debris. Authorities planned to test the substance, but they strongly suspected came from the oil spill.

In nearly three weeks since the platform in deep water horizon April 20 exploded, killing 11 workers, about 210,000 liters of oil per day has been flowing into the Gulf. As of Sunday, about 3.5 million gallons had leaked into the sea, approximately one third of the 11 million gallons spilled in the Exxon Valdez.

Until Saturday, no thick sludge – The indelible images of the Valdez spill others – had reached the coast.

It took over 12 hours to descend slowly to the bottom of the sea has reached the table the size of a house four floors, a task that requires extreme precision needed for his position on the property, for fear of damaging the exhaust pipe and exacerbate the problem. Nothing like this had been attempted at such depths, where water pressure can crush a submarine.

Company and Coast Guard officials had warned that icelike hydrates, a mixture of gas and muddy water, is one of the greatest challenges plan for the safe enclosure. The glass covered top box has peaked, "said Suttles BP, like sand in a funnel, only in reverse.

Options under consideration include raising the box high enough for warmer waters to prevent the formation of sludge, or use hot water or methanol. Although officials pondered their next move, the Coast Guard Admiral Mary Landry cons said that should continue to manage expectations.

"This dome is no miracle solution to stop the leaks he says.

The captain of the supply ship made the huge, concrete and steel vault 11 hours from the coast of Louisiana last week not to lose hope.

"Everyone knew it was a possibility long before we carry out the dome, the captain of Demi Shaffer, Seward, Alaska, said a reporter from the AP position with the crew of 12 men of Joe Griffin in the heart of the containment area. "It is a fact of life when you are drilling with trying to block the pipeline. "

The location of the platform in deep water Horizonte now exploded and sank abundant in the vessels working in the containment and the rogue. There are 15 boats and large vessels in or near the site – some use in a continuous effort to drill a relief well, if it is deemed a week of farewell ongoing review.

Moving to wait and see mode, the vessels insured they were willing to long term. Late Saturday night, Joe Griffin pumps approximately 84,000 gallons of fresh water in the reservoirs of the intervention Ocean III, one of the ships underwater robots to assist in the containment effort.

News that the plane of the containment box designed to extract up to 85 percent of oil leaks, has been slightly dampened spirits in the coastal communities of Louisiana.

"Everybody hopes this is a bit slow if not stop," said Shane Robichaux of Chauvin, a nurse of 39 years, relaxing in his summer camp in Cocodrie. "I'm sure we will continue to work for him until the fixation of way or another. But we were hoping to disable it. "

The initial explosion was caused by a bubble of methane who escaped from the property and pulled the drill string, expanding crossed several labels and barriers before exploding, according to the interviews with workers bench during the internal investigation of BP PLC. Deep oil drillers of the sea are often pockets of crystals of methane, and digging in soil.

As the bubble rose, intensify and expand, breaking the barriers of different security, "said Robert Bea, a professor of University of California at Berkeley and an expert in Pipeline Engineering which detailed interviews that a journalist from Associated Press.

Larimer reported Dauphin Island, Alabama Associated Press writers Ray Henry in Hammond, Louisiana, John Curran in Cocodrie, Louisiana, and PA Global Services Media Production Manager Nico Maouna Dauphin Island contributed to this report.

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