Apr 26, 2011

World’s Worst Oil Spills

World’s Worst Oil Spills

On April 24, in the Gulf of Mexico, the Deepwater Horizon, a submersible drilling rig sank after an explosion on April 22. Eleven people died in the Deepwater Horizon blast. The riser, a 5,000-foot-long pipe that connects the wellhead to the rig, became detached and started leaking oil. And, so began the worst oil spill ...

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