27 Apr 2010

Robots used to stop US oil spill

From Morning Report, 8:20 am on 27 April 2010

Robotic submarines are being used in a desperate attempt to stop a major oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and collapsed last week, killing eleven workers on board and causing nearly two hundred thousand litres of oil a day to seep in the ocean just off the Louisana coast.