NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the ...
The Deepwater Horizon disaster began on April 20, 2010, when an explosion killed 11 workers and left the Macondo well leaking deep under the Gulf of Mexico. BP tried to stop it with deep-sea robots, a ...
Early one morning in March 2010, Captain Gary Jarvis cast a heavyweight line into the Gulf of Mexico from the deck of his 57 foot charter boat, Backdown 2. The sun hadn't yet risen. But bright white ...