Ships steam to safer waters as storm enters Gulf

Ships steamed to safer waters and coastal workers packed up oil removal operations as remnants of a weakening Bonnie rolled into the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday.

By daybreak, all but a handful of the ships working at the well site were expected to be out of the way of the storm. The mechanical cap that has mostly contained the oil for eight days was left closed, and there was no worry the storm could cause any problems with the plug because it's nearly a mile below the ocean's surface.

Bonnie made landfall south of Miami early Friday as a feeble tropical storm with top sustained winds of 40 mph. It broke apart as it crossed Florida and was barely a tropical …