#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 04/23/2010 #2

An aerial photo taken southeast of Venice, on Louisiana’s tip, shows the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burning in the Gulf of Mexico.

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#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 04/24/2010 #1

A fire burns aboard the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon located in the Gulf of Mexico 52 miles southeast of Venice, LA. Rescue helicopters, ships and an airplane searched the waters off Louisiana’s coast for missing workers Wednesday after an explosion and fire that left an offshore drilling platform tilting in the Gulf of Mexico.

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#3 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 04/29/2010 #2

In this satellite photo provided by NASA, the oil slick from the 42,000 gallon-a-day oil leak from a well in the Gulf of Mexico is seen. The Mississippi Delta is in the center of the image and the oil slick is the silvery swirl to the right off Louisiana.

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#4 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/07/2010 #1

Workers at Wild Well Control construct a containment chamber in Port Fourchon, LA, The device will be lowered onto the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.

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#5 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/10/2010 #3

Engineers mulled options Sunday after the 1st try to cap a ruptured pipe gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico failed when ice crystals clogged a containment dome.

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#6 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/12/2010 #4

National Guard helicopters drop sand bags on a beach west of Grand Isle, LA, in an effort to protect the delicate marshlands from the approaching oil slick from the Deepwater Horizon spill.

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#7 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/13/2010 #2

Demonstrators in New Orleans rally for a coastal cleanup as oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to spread through the Gulf of Mexico.

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#8 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/03/2010 #5

Memorial crosses symbolizing what is lost due to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and oil spill stand in the front yard of a house in Grand Isle, LA, Tuesday, June 1st, 2010. ‘This is breaking people’, property owner Patrick Shay, not pictured, said of the spill’s effect on Grand Isle residents.

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#9 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/11/2010 #2

Photographer Rich Matthews takes a closer look at oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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#11 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/20/2020 #4

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#12 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/20/2022 #10

In 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, leased by BP, killed eleven workers and caused a blow out that began spewing an estimated 200 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. (The well was finally capped nearly three months later.) #Explosion2010DeepwaterHorizon

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#13 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/28/2022 #16

In 2010, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was worse than officials had believed, and that the federal government was offering to help industry giant BP contain the slick threatening the U.S. shoreline. #Explosion2010DeepwaterHorizon

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#14 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/29/2022 #15

In 2010, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency in the face of the worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. #Explosion2010DeepwaterHorizon

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#15 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 05/03/2022 #21

In 2010, BP declared it would pay all “legitimate and objectively verifiable” claims related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. #Explosion2010DeepwaterHorizon

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#16 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 05/07/2022 #16

In 2010, a BP-chartered vessel lowered a 100 ton concrete and steel vault onto the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well in an unprecedented, and ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to stop most of the gushing crude fouling the sea. #Explosion2010DeepwaterHorizon

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#17 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 05/18/2022 #13

In 2010, grilled by skeptical lawmakers, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar acknowledged his agency had been lax in overseeing offshore drilling activities, and that might have contributed to the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. #KenSalazar #Explosion2010DeepwaterHorizon

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