Gary Jarvis, a charterboat captain from Destin, Florida, says he planned to make at least $60,000 this month taking anglers out in the Gulf of Mexico to catch red snapper. Instead he's living on $5,000 he got from BP Global to help cover income lost to the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

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In another report, a journalist with diving experience jumped off a boat into the thickest, reddest patch of oil he says he'd ever seen. Then he opened his eyes to look around at the state of the Gulf waters.

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