Santa Barbara oil spill: 7 aerial photos that show the fallout
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With as much as 105,000 gallons of oil spilled off the Santa Barbara County coast this week, waters are topped by a slick and splotched with black, and some nine miles of shoreline is sullied. These aerial photos show some of the effects.
Oil fouls beaches, water and kelp forests
The oil spill fouls the waters and a kelp forest on May 20 as a cleanup effort continued along the coast in Santa Barbara County.
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Cleanup worker confronts blobs of oil
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Sheen reflects off oil-flecked water, oil-soaked kelp
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Boats deploy oil boom to help contain spilled material
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Oil stains the shore near Refugio State Beach
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Pelicans fly over murky, shiny water
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The drive along the coast overlooks the dark spill
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