A few nights ago, on Tuesday April 20th, an oil rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana. Two days later, the once burning oil rig has now sunk to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and has left a 5-square-mile trail of spreading oil. Not only is burning oil being released into the atmosphere and leaking into the gulf, but the explosion caused 11 workers to be blown into the gulf of mexico and there is currently a search out looking for them. Out of the 115 people on board at the time of the explosion, 11 are missing, 17 are injured, are the remaining 94 were taken ashore with no apparent injuries. They are determined to find the missing workers as soon as possible because they longer they go unfound, the more likely it is that they will be dead. The oil released into the gulf is estimated to be around 336,000 gallons. Along with that oil, it is estimated that 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel also leaked out.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/22/oil.rig.explosion/index.html?hpt=T1
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