Flight over BP oil slick shows disaster's enormity (video)

By Sue Sturgis / May 5, 2010

oil_slick_wathen_video.jpgJohn Wathen, the Hurricane Creekkeeper based in Alabama, flew over the BP oil slick yesterday on a flight provided by SouthWings and videotaped what he saw.

"The enormity of this slick began to sink in to me," Wathen says on the video. "It seems as if the thing was spreading out over the entire Gulf of Mexico."

Watch it here:

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