Tugboats Keep Iceberg from Hitting Oil Drilling Platforms
According to an August 31 report from the New York Daily News, eight tug boats pulled an iceberg the size of a football field off the coast of Greenland away from oil drilling platforms. (Source: New York Daily News)
Kevin Costner Donates Invention to Clean Oil Spill
According to a May 20 report from New York Daily News, Kevin Costner spent years and millions of dollars perfecting a device that cleans oil from seawater and British Petroleum gave the okay to test six of Costner's units. Costner's high-speed centrifuge machine, named Ocean Therapy, is placed on a barge and sucks in large quantities of polluted water, separates out the oil and spits back 97% clean water. (Source: New York Daily News)