And an even larger vessel from the North Sea also was heading to the oil spill site.
The data also showed that samples taken near the Kingston water treatment plant, which is upstream from the spill site, were within the federal limits, except for thallium.
Mr. Francis said contaminants in water samples taken near the spill site and at the intake for the town of Kingston, six miles downstream, were within acceptable levels.
The dolphin deaths have mostly ceased in Florida, which was further from the spill site, but have continued in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Creeks in Kolontar, the closest town to the spill site, were swollen ochre red yesterday and villagers said they were devoid of fish.
Local emergency officials said Thursday that they would evacuate 30 more families from homes near the spill site because of health risks.
The difference is that while the ICA self-consciously tries to make the work sound as experimental as humanly possible, the SPILL site calmly concentrates on the work itself.
Appalachian Voices sampled water from three locations — near the spill site, about half a mile downstream and about two miles downstream — and found eight metals that exceeded drinking water limits.
Montana's governor, Brian Schweitzer, who was due to visit areas near the spill site on Tuesday, has called for a safety inspection of all pipelines crossing the state and a review of the company's emergency response plans.
"At first we were thinking, Would this be another BP situation -- would it keep going?" said Tammy Rosy, 44, a waitress at the Half Time sports bar near the Romeoville spill site.
A satellite photograph taken two days after the Dalian spill and published on the environmental Web site skytruth.org suggests that the oil had spread far into the sea from the spill site and was swept along the coastline.
