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June 18, 2010
Oil spill hits 60th day
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Saturday will mark 60 days since the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon and beginning of one of the worst oil spills in history. On Friday, signaling a shift in strategy to fight against the ruptured well in the Gulf, the Coast Guard began ramping up efforts to capture oil closer to shore. Adm. Thad Allen said an estimated 2,000 private boats in the so-called "vessels of opportunity" program will be more closely linked through a tighter command and control structure to direct them to locations less than 50 miles offshore to skim the oil. Allen, the point man for the federal response to the spill, previously had said surface containment efforts would be concentrated much farther offshore. Estimates of the oil being siphoned from the well a mile below the Gulf are growing. Allen said more than 1.2 million gallons was sucked up to containment vessels Thursday. (28 images)

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Oil is burned and skimmed by boats near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Sunday, June 13, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico. AP / Eric Gay


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Oil is burned and skimmed by boats near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Sunday, June 13, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico. AP / Eric Gay



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Left: Oil is burned and skimmed by boats near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Sunday, June 13, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico. AP / Eric Gay
Right: Oil is burned on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico a few miles from the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Oil is still leaking from the wellhead. AP / Dave Martin



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Oil is burned on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico a few miles from the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Oil is still leaking from the wellhead. AP / Dave Martin



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An oil slick is near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill contrasts with the water in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday, June 13, 2010. Oil continues to flow from the wellhead some 5,000 feet below the surface. AP / Dave Martin



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Boats are seen along the oil damaged shoreline in the northern reaches of Barataria Bay Thursday, June 17, 2010. AP / Gerald Herbert



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A boat glides through the heavy sheen of oil as it skims near the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday, June 13, 2010. AP / Dave Martin



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The oil damaged shoreline in the Northern reaches of Barataria Bay is seen amidst work boats in oil polluted waters as Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's tours oil damage in Barataria Bay, La., Thursday, June 17, 2010. AP / Gerald Herbert



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A member of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's staff stirs thick oil on the water's surface in the Northern regions of Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish, La., Tuesday, June 15, 2010. AP / Gerald Herbert



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A contract clean-up worker uses a hose to collect oil in Bay Jimmy on June 15, 2010 off of Grand Isle, La. Getty Images / Spencer Platt



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A worker hauls away a load of garbage bags filled with oil soaked boom on the beach on June 14, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Getty Images / Chris Graythen



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An oil-soaked boom is seen near the base of a fishing pier on June 14, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Ala. Getty Images / Chris Graythen



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Oil cleanup crews make their morning patrol along the beach in Gulf Shores, Ala., Wednesday, June 16, 2010. New waves of oil have not come ashore and cleanup work continues, leaving Alabama's beaches in much better condition than just a few days earlier. AP / Dave Martin



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Oil cleanup workers hired by BP clean oily deposits from the shore in Orange Beach, Ala., Saturday, June 12, 2010. AP / Dave Martin



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A cleanup worker pauses while vacuuming oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill along the Northern shores of Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish, La., Tuesday, June 15, 2010. AP / Gerald Herbert



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A worker on a staging barge walks past piles of absorbent boom to be used to collect oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill Thursday, June 17, 2010, near Myrtle Grove, La. AP / Charlie Neibergall



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Sal Gagliano stands on the bow of his boat with his son Dominic, right, as they look at water containing oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Bay Jimmy Thursday, June 17, 2010, near Myrtle Grove, La. AP / Charlie Neibergall



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Oil cleanup workers gather for duty in Orange Beach, Ala., Wednesday morning, June 16, 2010. Press-Register / Mike Kittrell



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A worker's boots are decontaminated during clean up from the Deepwater Horizon spill, Sunday, June 13, 2010, in Grand Isle, La. AP / Eric Gay



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Dead fish in a clump of oil, which were part of a larger fish kill and placed in foil by Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries personnel, are seen in oil impacted areas of the Northern shores of Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish, La., Tuesday, June 15, 2010. AP / Gerald Herbert



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A loggerhead turtle, 6 to 7 years old and more than 100 pounds, evades the net of a team of sea turtle experts while swimming in the polluted waters of the Gulf of Mexico, near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Los Angeles Times / Carolyn Cole



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A team of sea turtle experts work to recover oiled and endangered turtles in the Gulf of Mexico, near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Monday, June 14, 2010. Oil collects in areas of sargassum, a type of seaweed, where immature turtles and many other organisms live. Los Angeles Times / Carolyn Cole



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A pelican flies over an oil slick boom off of Bird Island Two on June 14, 2010 in Grand Isle, La. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, some 1,282 oiled birds have been captured in time to be treated with the intention of eventually releasing them back into the wild. Getty Images / Spencer Platt



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A brown pelican covered with oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, eludes capture by a team of biologists from the US Fish and Wildlife Service at Sandy Point in the Gulf of Mexico, near Venice, La., June 15, 2010. Birds are caught and then cleaned at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. AFP / Getty Images / Saul Loeb



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A team of biologists from the US Fish and Wildlife Service catch a brown pelican covered with oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, at Sandy Point in the Gulf of Mexico, near Venice, La., June 15, 2010. Birds are caught and then cleaned at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. AFP / Getty Images / Saul Loeb



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Two egrets search for food in a canal beside an oil contaminated beach June 14, 2010 in Grand Isle, Louisiana. Oil producer BP said today that it plans to sell recovered oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, with profits going toward a wildlife protection fund. Getty Images / Spencer Platt



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Protestors stand behind BP CEO Tony Hayward, as he arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 17, 2010, to testify before the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on "the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and oil spill. AP / Haraz N. Ghanbari



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