Scenes of the BP Spill Zone, One Year Later

Scenes of the BP Spill Zone, One Year Later At the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, much of the Gulf coast is still in a fragile state
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Out to Sea
The site of the Deepwater Horizon oilrig explosion almost one year later, in the Gulf of Mexico, 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana, April 10, 2011.

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