Contemporary · North America · Disaster
2010
Deepwater Horizon explodes
April 20, 2010
BP's offshore rig caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and rupturing a wellhead a mile beneath the surface. For 87 days oil gushed in real time on underwater cameras. By the time engineers capped it, more than four million barrels had stained the marshes from Louisiana to Florida.
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Era
Contemporary (2001–2026), one of 196 events from that era on Saeculum.
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