NY Time -Oil Leak

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  1. sea floor
    the bottom of a sea or ocean
    Officials had previously found two leaks in the riser, the 5,000-foot-long pipe that connected the rig to the wellhead and is now detached and snaking along the sea floor.
  2. atmospheric
    relating to or located in the mass of air surrounding Earth
    In a hastily called news conference, Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry of the Coast Guard said a scientist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had concluded that oil is leaking at the rate of 5,000 barrels a day, not 1,000 as had been estimated.
  3. marshland
    low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation
    Part of the oil slick was only 16 miles offshore and closing in on the Mississippi River Delta, the marshlands at the southeastern tip of Louisiana where the river empties into the ocean.
  4. skimmer
    a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids
    Among them were using cannons to scare off birds and employing local shrimpers’ boats as makeshift oil skimmers in the shallows.
  5. shoreline
    a boundary line between land and water
    Already 100,000 feet of protective booms have been laid down to protect the shoreline, with 500,000 feet more standing by, said Charlie Henry, an oil spill expert for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, at an earlier news conference on Wednesday.
Created on Thu Apr 29 10:30:02 EDT 2010

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