state records now indicate the first reports of the massive oil spill came in the day before officials confirmed it the size also larger than initially reported up to 144,000 gallons of crude and now potential evidence of an anchor strike contracted divers discovering a 4,000-foot section of the nearly 18-mile pipeline was displaced by over 100 feet a 13-inch split cracking open the pipe, spewing oil. >> the pipeline has essentially been pulled like a bowstring. >> reporter: from just over the spill site we saw how difficult the cleanup has become evidence from the spill stretches from the beaches of orange county all the way to mexico but crews are having a difficult time tracking the ribbons of oil because they've been dispersed after a thunderstorm here. today a flotilla of boats are corralling the oil they can but