Anger mounts as oil spill turns marshes black

Anger mounted yesterday as heavy oil blackened Louisiana's marshes and beaches and efforts to cap the oil, which has gushed into the Gulf of Mexico for more than a month, ran into more delays.

Initially scheduled to begin yesterday, BP's latest attempt to cap a leak in a ruptured pipe 5,000 feet below the surface is not expected to get under way until tomorrow at the earliest. Crews used submarine robots on Saturday to position equipment for the "top kill" attempt to plug the leak.

"There's a lot of staging that must go on – on the surface of the water as well as on the seafloor," BP spokesman John Curry told reporters.

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