History Repeats

With the BP oil spill gushing up to 62,000 barrels of crude per day into the Gulf of Mexico, it was very timely to come across this article in an old local newspaper from March 4, 1968. The disaster that time was a grounded oil tanker in a Puerto Rico bay, but a lot of the techniques used in the containment were the same as those in use today—and there's a Rhode Island connection.