Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100623:03:50:00
For awhile, the most noticeable aspect of the scenes below is the presence of huge onshore facilities to supply and support the offshore oil fields. these facilities alone employ thousands just in this one region of the coast. soon, the scenes below begin changing, almost as if there's a growing competition between land and water to dominate the landscape. eventually, the marshes and swamps prevail. wetlands pierced by canals, channels, harbors and causeways and even the last traces of roads that are gradually disappearing into a no-man's land between terra firma and the sea. from high above, ...