BP contractors deploy an oil containment boom around West Ship Island, to contain an oil spill off the coast of Gulfport, Mississippi May 6, 2010. BP engineers prepared to start lowering a 98-ton metal chamber over a ruptured undersea oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday as officials confirmed the first oil landfall from the spill on a Louisiana island beach. Ship Island is part of the Gulf Island National Seashore and part of the US Park Service. [Photo/Agencies] |
