Watch the Oil Leak Stop in High Speed

OIL SPILL -- July 16, 2010 at 4:39 PM EDT

Watch the Oil Leak Stop in High Speed

In real time, it was difficult to see the exact moment that oil stopped flowing from BP's broken wellhead in the Gulf. So we built this time lapse video -- compressing three hours of our live stream into a little more than a minute, and revealing the process that finally stemmed the flow of oil on July 15.

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