Underwater Sensors Deployed To Better Track Gulf Oil Spill

SCHRIEVER, La. — Undersea sensors were deployed to a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday in an effort to better track the amount of oil gushing into the sea as pressure mounted on BP to create special accounts that would set aside billions of dollars to pay for spill-related claims.

New estimates say the blown-out well could have been spewing as much as 2 million gallons of crude a day before a cut-and-cap maneuver earlier this month started capturing some of the flow. That means more than 100 million gallons may have leaked into the Gulf since the start of the disaster in April.

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