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Watch the Oil Leak Stop in High Speed

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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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Travis Daub

Travis Daub is Digital Director at PBS NewsHour where he manages the incredible digital content team and oversees the integration of online and on-air content. With 20 years of experience in online publishing, Travis has been honored to work alongside talented colleagues at the PBS NewsHour, Foreign Policy magazine and the Des Moines Register.

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