Work resumes at oil well after storm blows out

Ships and workers moved back into BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill site yesterday as seas calmed after tropical depression Bonnie dissipated over the gulf.

Admiral Thad Allen, head of the US spill response, said an operation to plug the well by pumping in heavy drilling mud and possibly cement could start in three to five days.

Government biologists are releasing thousands of endangered baby sea turtles into the western Gulf of Mexico, betting that by the time the silver dollar-sized swimmers make it to the oil-fouled waters of the eastern gulf, BP will have cleaned up its mess.