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A mile-long boom. they're putting it into place. they're trying to contain the oil slick in the gulf of mexico. >> chemical dispersants being spread across the gulf by plane, mile-long booms being set up to contain the oil slick on the surface. if you close your eyes and you just listen to these news reports from 1979 you would be forgiven for thinking that you had flipped on the news today. the ixtoc rig erupted in the middle of the night in 1979 in june as it was drilling for oil in the gulf of mexico. the drilling was being done by a company called sed coe. sedcollator became known as trans...

From that runaway mexican well could spread as far as the coast of florida, that from an official from the epa. >> the ixtoc disaster in 1979 in the gulf of mexico went on for week, and weeks turned into months. the reason it went on so long is because although oil companies were allowed to drill offshore like that, it turns out they didn't know how to stop a leak when disaster struck. nothing they tried worked. >> in the gulf of mexico, rain and heavy seas are hampering efforts to cap a mexican oil well that has been spilling since june 3, the worst spill in history. workers are trying to put...