AP – A barrel lid, left, floats amidst weathered oil in the Gulf of Mexico southwest of the Southwest Pass –Thu May 6, 7:59 pm ET  

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – Workers gathered to begin lowering a giant concrete-and-steel box over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the sea Thursday in a risky and untested bid to capture most of the gushing crude and avert a wider environmental disaster. 美联社 – 一只大型桶盖（左）漂浮在墨西哥西南通道

墨西哥海湾消息 - 工人集中力量开始将一只巨型混凝土钢框构件沉入海底，企图盖住正在涌出原油的出口，避免环境灾难进一步扩大。

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