(CNN) – Robotic subs are trying to make a clean cut through the gushing oil pipe at the bottom of the Gulf. Then BP will attempt to cap it and contain the oil that's gushing out. But the fix can't come fast enough though for the barrier islands along the Gulf shores.

The oil is now arriving at a small strip of land called Dauphin Island in Alabama, sitting at the mouth of Mobile Bay. Because of that, the Alabama Department of Public Health is discouraging people from swimming in the waters. Cleanup crews are now shoveling oil from the sand and scientists are currently testing the waters by the beaches. Our John Zarrella witnessed the strange sight on those beaches yesterday.

By Bob Ruff and Carol Costello, CNN

(CNN) – Could things get any worse for BP? Maybe. As the oil continues to flow, some are charging that another BP operation in the Gulf is an even bigger disaster in the making.

For six months, Ken Abbott managed BP’s engineering documents for "Atlantis," BP’s deep water platform nearly 200 miles south of New Orleans. He turned into a BP whistle-blower in February 2009 after finding what he says were thousands of Atlantis engineering documents and drawings that were neither complete nor reviewed properly by BP. That, Sawyer now says, was a serious safety violation.

Abbott and his lawyer quickly hired Mike Sawyer, a safety engineer consultant, who examined the BP documents in question. Sawyer tells CNN that oil rig “engineering drawings and specification are the primary means that workers use to ensure that they can operate the platform safely, and can ensure that they can shut it down or at least control any unsafe event.” Atlantis’ engineering documents and drawings, says Sawyer, were so incomplete that he fears another environmental disaster from BP.

Abbott shared his information with Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, who found it so disturbing that he and 18 other lawmakers sent a letter to the Department of the Interior and the Minerals Management Service (MMS), the agency that regulates the oil industry.

"...This platform [Atlantis],” they wrote, “may be operating without crucial engineering documents, which, if absent, would increase the risk of a catastrophic accident..."

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(CNN) – It's day 43 of the Gulf oil disaster. BP is working on its latest effort to slow the oil gusher from a blown-out well. Meantime, President Obama meets today for the first time with co-chairs of the independent commission investigating the spill. Carol Browner is the president's adviser on energy and climate change and she joined us on Tuesday's American Morning.