* By Fred Grimm Miami Herald *
A few days ago, the oil gushing out of the ruins of the Deepwater Horizon was termed “manageable.”
By Monday, “manageable” had evolved into 42,000 gallons of oil a day gushing unabated from the 
wellhead beneath the sunken rig off the coast of Louisiana. The sheen on the Gulf of Mexico had spread across 1,800 square miles of water. Seven skimming boats attempting to mop up the oil began to look overwhelmed.
Robotic submarines, meanwhile, were working at crushing depths Monday — 5,000 feet below the surface — trying to activate a 450-ton shutoff valve and staunch the spill. If the subs fail, the oil-spill response team will drill two adjacent emergency wells to intercept the oil flowing out of the wrecked wellhead. That could take months.
A “manageable” spill began to resemble an out-of-control disaster.
It’s too soon to measure the extent of the environmental damage. Climate scientists on Monday were calculating the direction the wind and Gulf currents and in the short term, Florida’s beaches and keys and reefs seemed safe.
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