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anywhere from, say, 5,000 barrels a day, some guesstimates as high as 7,000 barrels a day, at this point they're going to do everything they can to try and stave this off. they're using things called r.o.v. a little bit of jacques cousteau. the game plan is to use these robots to kind of steer a six-inch underwater pipe right into the leak. the plan then is to siphon with that pipe, siphon the oil, at least 85% of it up to a vessel at the very surface. the vessel more specifically will be an oil tanker, the game plan then is to get that tanker filled and at least offloaded and bring ...
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