First Underwater Footage of Deepwater Horizon Oil Leak

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BP has released footage of their remote operating vehicle (ROV) successfully capping one of the three leaks that is pouring an estimated 5,000 barrels of oil a day into the waters off the Gulf of Mexico. You can see a very large amount of oil gushing from the leak in the video . This is the small leak in the drill pipe.

Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig which sank on April 22, 2010, causing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The spill was the result of an explosion two days earlier where eleven crewmen died. Deepwater Horizon was built in 2001 in South Korea, is owned by Transocean and was leased to BP plc until September 2013. She was registered in Majuro, Marshall Islands. In September 2009, the rig drilled the deepest oil well in history at a vertical depth of 35,050. feet (10,683.2 m) and measured depth of 35,055 feet (10,685 m). The oil spill may become one of the worst environmental disasters in United States history.