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Location: Macondo Prospect (Mississippi Canyon Block 252), in the North-central Gulf of Mexico, United States (south of Louisiana): Coordinates: 1]: Date: 20 April – 19 September 2010 (4 months, 4 weeks and 2 days): Cause; Cause: Wellhead blowout: Casualties: 11 people killed 17 people injured: Operator: Transocean under contract for BP [2]: Spill characteristics; Volume: 4.9 million barrels ...
NOAA opens 8,000 square miles (21,000 km 2) of the Gulf to fishing 78,597 square miles (203,600 km 2) —approximately 32.5 percent of federal areas in the Gulf are still closed. [ 153 ] Allen "Rookie" Kruse of Orange Beach, Alabama , a captain of a vessel of opportunity charter boat being used in the cleanup is found dead in a suicide on one ...
Donald Vidrine, who was the ranking BP representative on Deepwater Horizon, citing ill health refuses to testify at Coast Guard hearing into the accident. [115] July 22; Ships and personnel leave the spill site as Tropical Storm Bonnie approaches. [116] [117] NOAA reopens one-third of closed area of Gulf to fishing. [118] July 24
Waves crash against the cliffs in Shell Beach in a view from Shoreline Drive on Dec. 28, 2023. Storm driven high swells on the ocean combined with seasonal high tides combined to cause coastal ...
Butler, with the SCHP, said in a release that the accident happened about 1:07 p.m. on the beach near the Nash Street beach access. Schultz-Peters was taken to Grand Strand Medical Center where ...
The driver, Mary M. Chadwick, 72, was injured in the crash. According to a news release from the Washington State Patrol, the crash happened at 12:14 p.m. at milepost 12 outside of Ocean Shores.
April 20, 2010 – Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in the Gulf of Mexico, 11 dead July 22, 2013 – Offshore gas well, 44 workers evacuated [ 62 ] October 8, 2015 - Three people were killed and two others were seriously wounded Thursday when a natural gas plant in Gibson, Louisiana exploded.
Snow fell in Houston and prompted the first ever blizzard warnings for several coastal counties near the Texas-Louisiana border. Snow covered the white-sand beaches of normally sunny vacation spots, including Gulf Shores, Alabama, and Pensacola Beach, Florida.