[Faline]

Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore oil drilling rig owned by Transocean. Built in 2001 in South Korea by Hyundai Heavy Industries, the rig was leased to BP from 2001 until September 2013. In September 2009, the rig drilled the deepest oil well in history at a vertical depth of 35,050 ft (10,683 m) and measured depth of 35,055 ft (10,685 m) in the Tiber Oil Field at Keathley Canyon block 102, approximately 250 miles (400 km) southeast of Houston, in 4,132 feet (1,259 m) of water.
On 20 April 2010, while drilling at the Macondo Prospect, an explosion on the rig caused by a blowout killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 35 miles (56 km) away. The resulting fire could not be extinguished and, on 22 April 2010, Deepwater Horizon sank, leaving the well gushing at the seabed and causing the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon

The photograph above was provided to The New York Times by a worker on a nearby boat who asked not to be identified.

[RedneckR0nin]

That is what happens when you push a hole that is telling you it don't want to be dug. They pushed so much fucking kick pressure that driller even though he died is at fault and a fucking idiot. There goes about 100 million bucks of a rig.....countless more in crude...even fucking more in ecological damage.....shame all around!

This is the drill ship I worked for TransOcean

[Sharon]

The situation on that rig must have been so terrifying.

Thanks for the pic