ON THE GULF OF MEXICO –It’s never been tried before, but crews hope to lower a 100-ton concrete-and-steel box a mile under the Gulf of Mexico today to cut off most of the hundreds of thousands of ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- Workers gathered to begin lowering a giant concrete-and-steel box over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the sea Thursday in a risky and untested bid to capture most of ...

Workers gathered to begin lowering a giant concrete-and-steel box over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the sea Thursday in a risky and untested bid to capture most of the gushing crude and ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – Political patience was washing away for BP executives who can’t stop a broken underwater well from spewing oil into the Gulf, where crews were trying the latest solution — ...

Thu, 06 May 2010 10:00:31 GMT — ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) " Crews prepared Thursday to lower a 100-ton box they hoped would cut off most of the crude spewing from a blown-out well in the Gulf of ...

Tar balls washed up on Baldwin County beaches Tuesday for the first time as officials continued to prepare Alabama's coast for the possible landfall of oil from Crews in environmental protection suits ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICOON THE GULF OF MEXICO — Workers gathered to begin lowering a giant concrete-and-steel box over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the sea Thursday in a risky and untested bid ...

The containment box has a dome-like structure at the top that’s designed to act like a funnel and siphon the oil up through 5,000 feet of pipe and onto a tanker at the surface. First, crews need to ...