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A crewman aboard the motor vessel Joe Griffith secures a pollution containment chamber to the deck as the ship prepares to depart Port Fourchon, La., May 5, 2010. The chamber was designed to cap the oil discharge from the Deepwater Horizon incident.

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A crewman aboard the motor vessel Joe Griffith secures a pollution containment chamber to the deck as the ship prepares to depart Port Fourchon, La., May 5, 2010. The chamber was designed to cap the oil discharge from the Deepwater Horizon incident.

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