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Bad Robot Worsens Oil Spill
An underwater robot bumped some of the machinery that is helping to collect part of the oil leak. This forced BP to actually take the well cap off again to fix it, leaving nothing to stem the flow of oil into the ocean. The cap was removed as fluid was seen leaking from it and [...]
Sentry Robosub Heads To Gulf
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute is sending a robotic submarine called Sentry to the Gulf of Mexico to help examine the oil plume rising from the BP oil disaster. According to oceanographer John Delaney, Sentry looks like “a flying bar of soap.” Sentry can dive up to 4,500 meters deep and is powered by over [...]
Robot Sub Deployed To Stop Oil Leak
The oil drilling rig known as the Transocean Deepwater Horizon rig was engulfed in an explosion last Tuesday. On Friday, the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico had completely sunk. Transocean, a Swiss company owned the oil rig and had leased it to BP. Currently the former oil rig site is now leaking 42,000 [...]