The Most Surprising Pictures of 2010

 
June 7, 2010. Crude oil washes ashore following the sinking of the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on Grand Terre Island, LA.

Grand Terre Island, USA
Photograph by Benjamin Lowy / Reportage by Getty Images
Crude oil washes ashore following the sinking of the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on Grand Terre Island, LA., June 7, 2010.

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