In that single instant, it releases its 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel aboard into the Gulf. CST, the Deepwater Horizon finally sinks beneath the waves. The Team begins drafting plans, providing technical assistance, and deploying equipment to assist BP in their response.ĭAY 3 – April 22, 2010: At 10:22 a.m. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), USCG, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of the Interior (DOI) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with state and local partners, activate the Regional Response Team (RRT). But decisions made early on were critical to ensuring it ultimately resulted in the successful rehabilitation of the Gulf Coast region.ĭAY 2 – April 21, 2010: The Deepwater Horizon is still burning and has begun to sink, but already oil sheen is visible on the surface. As days turned to weeks and months, the nature of the response evolved with them. history.ĭue to geographical, geological, technological and other factors, the crisis was a prolonged one. It would be the largest oil-related natural disaster in U.S. Like a cork removed from a bottle, 60,000 barrels of oil flowed freely out of the well each day for the next 87 days. When it did, it took with it any equipment that could prevent the well it was piped into from releasing its contents into the Gulf. The fire aboard the rig-which was located just 50 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana-continued to burn unchecked for the next day and a half, until the rig finally sank. CST on April 20, 2010, a massive explosion devastated the BP oil rig Deepwater Horizon, killing 11 crew. This was the magnitude of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, and the national response to mitigate its effects. Over 6,000 vessels were operating throughout the Gulf of Mexico, nearly as many as the number ships involved in the D-Day landings during the Second World War. Coast Guard (USCG) was about to invade Louisiana. Using everything in the arsenal to repel an onslaught of oil
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