Offshore oil rigs are some of the largest structures on the ocean, they can operate at incredible depths and drill deeper ...

BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig spilled around 4.9 million ... oil from that spill in the livers of fish, and on the deep ocean floor. Researchers have spent nearly 250 days at sea, sampling over ...

In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy divers carefully snip ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has released four videos showing portions of a four-day underwater survey in mid-December of the BP Macondo well site and of wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible ...

As oil continues to flow into the gulf of Mexico from the exploded Deepwater Horizon drilling ... is how the sunken oil will affect the ocean floor. While the bottom is teeming with life that ...

The oil discharged into the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH ... the oil that settled to the deep ocean floor when DWH's Macondo well discharged ...

As more details emerge about the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon ... the well it had bored some three miles below the ocean floor, before moving on to another exploration site.

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around the site of the Deepwater Horizon spill. Unlike other sediment on the ocean floor, oil does not contain any carbon-14, a radioactive isotope. Therefore, sediment samples without carbon-14 ...

Building an oil rig - from scratch The centerpiece of "Deepwater Horizon" is the massive oil rig set after which the movie is named. Given that the real rig is currently on the floor of the Gulf ...

When Deepwater Horizon sank, the oil well continued to gush onto the ocean floor, which led to the largest oil spill in history. It’s estimated that 210,000,000 gallons of oil gushed into the Gulf.

around the site of the Deepwater Horizon spill. Unlike other sediment on the ocean floor, oil does not contain any carbon-14, a radioactive isotope. Therefore, sediment samples without carbon-14 ...