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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 February 2025. Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico This article is about the oil spill itself. For the initial explosion, see Deepwater Horizon explosion. For other related articles, see Deepwater Horizon (disambiguation). Deepwater Horizon oil spill As seen from space by the Terra satellite on 24 May ...
In 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched the Gulf Long-term Follow-up Study through the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. As the largest, most comprehensive study of long-term health effects from an oil spill, the GuLF Study will collect health data on cleanup workers and track them for at least 5 years.
Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig [7] owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On 20 April 2010, while drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 40 miles (64 km) away. [8]
Gulf Shores was also ideal for exploring Alabama’s Coastal Connection, a 130-mile scenic byway that linked the golden barrier islands with Mobile via a winding route north through classic ...
GULF STREAM — A crash involving an SUV and a group of bicyclists Thursday morning in the town of Gulf Stream sent seven people to hospitals, according to a Delray Beach Fire Rescue report ...
Butler, with the SCHP, said in a release that the accident happened about 1:07 p.m. on the beach near the Nash Street beach access. Schultz-Peters was taken to Grand Strand Medical Center where ...
NOAA opens 8,000 square miles (21,000 km 2) of the Gulf to fishing 78,597 square miles (203,600 km 2) —approximately 32.5 percent of federal areas in the Gulf are still closed. [ 153 ] Allen "Rookie" Kruse of Orange Beach, Alabama , a captain of a vessel of opportunity charter boat being used in the cleanup is found dead in a suicide on one ...
The driver, Mary M. Chadwick, 72, was injured in the crash. According to a news release from the Washington State Patrol, the crash happened at 12:14 p.m. at milepost 12 outside of Ocean Shores.