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Disaster Response: How BP is cleaning up its mess
The GoM tragedy has unleashed one of the largest response efforts ever
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A containment dome was loaded aboard a transport vessel at Port Fourchon, Louisiana, and began its transport to the MC252 well site. The 40x24x14 feet steel vessel, which weighs almost 100 tonnes, is expected to be lowered to the seabed today.
BP chief executive officer Tony Hayward has been in Louisiana counting the cost of the disaster.
More than 100 miles of boom has been put in place to protect the Gulf of Mexico Shoreline.
Rapid response teams have amassed a flotilla of fast boats to put nearly a million feet of boom in place.
The containment dome being loaded aboard a transport vessel at Port Fourchon, Louisiana.
The 100 tonne containment boom being tightly secured aboard the transport vessel before heading out to the spill source site.
Teams of engineers have worked around the clock to build the custom made containment dome.
The containment dome weighs in at 100 tonnes and it is hoped will remedy the 5000 barrels of oil which have been gushing into the sea each day since the Deepwater Horizon semi submersible drilling rig sank.