Damaged barge capsizes in Gulf (300,000 gallons of oil)

Oh No! This is so terrible. The gulf is surely dead.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3463426

PORT ARTHUR — A damaged barge that has leaked oil in the Gulf of Mexico capsized while workers were trying to stabilize it, the U.S. Coast Guard said today.
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he Coast Guard said it didn't know how much oil had leaked from the barge, which carried about 5 million gallons of a thick petroleum product known as number-six fuel oil. About 300,000 gallons of oil was in the damaged cargo one tank.

The barge left Houston shortly before midnight Thursday en route to Tampa, Fla. But the 441-foot vessel hit debris in the water that gouged a 30-foot by 6-foot hole in the starboard bow, and early Friday crew members called the Coast Guard when they noticed the barge was slightly listing south of Lake Charles.

About 2,000 feet of containment boom has been placed around the barge to try to contain the spill. Oil skimmers worked to remove the surface oil.
:cry:

Not good. And,

How much you want to bet that when they write, "...the 441-foot vessel hit debris in the water..." they mean one of the destroyed oil drilling rigs that's still floating around the gulf?

God, the havoc that oil wreaks on this world, in all our attempts to get our hands on it. I hope the containment is successful...