Contracted fishing vessels, Mary and Jace and Gulf Rambler, pull an oil boom during a controlled oil fire off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico, in this photograph taken on May 5, 2010 and released May 6. The first oil from a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico came ashore on a Louisiana island beach on Thursday as BP engineers prepared to start lowering a 98-ton metal chamber over the ruptured seabed well. Picture taken May 5. [Photo/Agencies] |
