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The Gulf Between Us

Wed, 10/20/2010 - 09:16 — Dave Culver
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Health & Environment
  • Stories of terror and beauty from the world's largest accidental offshore oil disaster
  • 6 months after oil spill, much remains unknown

Terry Tempest Williams, Orion Magazine

Photographs by J Henry Fair

This is what we have been told:
•    April 20, 2010: the Macondo well blowout occurred approximately five thousand feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, causing the BP-Transocean drilling platform Deepwater Horizon to explode, killing eleven workers and injuring seventeen others.   
•    5 million barrels of crude oil were released into the sea from the BP blowout. On average, sixty thousand barrels a day were escaping from the well before the gusher was capped on July 15, 2010.

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6 months after oil spill, much remains unknown, Brian Skoloff and Harry R. Weber, Associated Press/Seacostonline.com

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