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Gallery: Massive response effort to US oil spill
C-130 aerial dispersant operations continue over Gulf of Mexico
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U.S. Air Force Master Sgt.Brad Franken a C-130 spray operating loadmaster from the 910th Airlift Wing at Youngstown-Warren Air Reserve Station, Ohio, monitors chemical bearing tanks aboard a C-130 during a mission into the Gulf of Mexico in search of oil spots as part of the Deepwater Horizon Response effort May 7, 2010. Members of the 910th Airlift Wing are in Mississippi to assist with response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The 910th AW specializes in aerial spray and is the Department of Defense?s only large area fixed wing aerial spray unit. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech. Sgt. Adrian Cadiz)
Aboard the motor vessel Joe Griffin, Total Safety employee Erik Reyna monitors the air quality at the Deepwater Horizon site May 7, 2010. Workers are instructed to go inside the ship when readings indicate that conditions are unsafe. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Patrick Kelley.
“Top Hat” ? A small containment done that will be lowered over the main leak point. (Courtesy of BP)
The drillship Discoverer Enterprise arrives at the Deepwater Horizon site May 7, 2010. The ship was brought in to drill a relief well to help stop the flow of oil from a wellhead that was damaged when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, 2010. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Patrick Kelley.
Cavalry Unit 131 of the Alabama National Guard building Hesco Boxes on Dauphin Island, Alabama. (Courtesy of BP)
Second cofferdam under construction at Wild Well in Port Fourchon, Louisiana. (Courtesy of BP)
Tony Hayward, BP chief executive leads a disaster response briefing in Louisiana.
Kent Wells speaking at a BP Technical Briefing on May 10. (Courtesy of BP)
