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July 10th, 2010, day 82<\/em><\/p>\n From the Associated Press:<\/p>\n NEW ORLEANS \u2014 Robotic submarines removed the cap from the gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, beginning a period of at least two days when oil will flow freely into the sea [depicted in the video above].<\/p>\n It’s the first step in placing a tighter dome that is supposed to funnel more oil to collection ships on the surface a mile above. If all goes according to plan, the tandem of the tighter cap and the surface ships could keep all the oil from polluting the fragile Gulf as soon as Monday.<\/p>\n BP spokesman Mark Proegler said the old cap was removed at 12:37 p.m. CDT on Saturday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JvWfElFuFnM July 10th, 2010, day 82 From the Associated Press: NEW ORLEANS \u2014 Robotic submarines removed the cap from the gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, beginning a period of at least two days when oil will flow freely into the sea [depicted in the video above]. It’s the first step in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-video-of-the-day"],"yoast_head":"\n