1. What is wrong with this picture?

3. Deepwater Horizon – 2010

4. What happened?
An oil rig named Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010.
Eleven people working there died.
The explosion caused oil to begin leaking out.
It leaked for 87 days.

5. What are oil rigs?
An oil rig is a structure built in the ocean to support pipes and drills used to remove oil from underground wells. There are gas and oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

6. How much oil leaked? That is the equivalent of 35,000 swimming pools.
160 of these PER DAY
A total of 800,000 gallons of oil
PER DAY
In total, it leaked an estimated 94,000,000 to 184,000,000 gallons.
That is the equivalent of 35,000 swimming pools.

7. Where was the leak exactly?
The explosion and leak occurred 40 miles from the Louisiana coast and 1 mile underwater.

8. Ways to clean an oil spill
Hard Booms

9. Ways to clean an oil spill
Sorbent Booms

10. Ways to clean an oil spill
Fire Booms

11. Ways to clean an oil spill
Skimmers

12. Ways to clean an oil spill
Dispersants – Cause oil to form into droplets and allows for faster evaporation and biological decomposition.
Examples
Charcoal
Various chemicals
Deepwater horizon - Corexit