Oil and Water

摘要

The Deepwater Horizon disaster, which occurred on the evening of 20 April 2010, was a man-made disaster of prodigious proportions. The spectacular explosion of the Transocean-owned rig at the Macondo well, in an operation for which BP held overall responsibility, produced a growing sense of anxiety and even panic over its potential consequences. The explosion produced an oil leak which BP initially put at 1,000 barrels a day (Safina, p. 48), but once images of the actual gusher were televised, it was obvious that it was much larger.