BP SPILL LEAVES 22-MILE OIL PLUME

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New study: Oil plume under Gulf surface is big - 22 miles long - and likely to survive awhile.

A 22-mile-long invisible mist of oil is meandering far below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, where it will probably loiter for months or more, scientists reported Thursday in the first conclusive evidence of an underwater plume from the BP spill.

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