Pisces on two-week mission

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - The NOAA ship Pisces left Pascagoula Friday for a two-week mission to collect samples around the Deepwater Horizon wellhead. A team of 15 federal and academic scientists is on board the 209-foot Pisces to collect water and sediment samples within 25 miles of the site of the oil spill. The ship’s mission to see what’s on the seafloor and the water column. The Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. The runaway well spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico until the flow was stopped July 15. (Source: Mississippi Press, 09/25/10)