Explosion Aboard the “Deep Water Horizon.”
In the gulf of Mexico, a few miles off coast, The “Deep Water Horizon,” Exploded! 11 people were killed and 17 were injured. So the coast guard sent ships to wash the fire away, but after that, the oil rig sank.
5,000 through 8,000 barrels of oil have been leaking out ever since.
Workers everywhere have been trying to stop the leaking. One thing they tried is covering the oil and exporting the oil to small ships.
But oil is still leaking as it reaches the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama. Then the president, Obama heard about the oil spill in the gulf of Mexico. So he sent some people to try and cap the spill to prevent oil from leaking out.
But then the riser pipe broke so they had to cut the pipe open before capping the the well. Fortunately they cut the riser pipe so they had to check out what was happening when the submarines where trying to cap the well.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/03/timeline.gulf.spill/index.html?hpt=T2
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