Wreck of Deepwater Horizon
United States
- Position
- 28.7417° N, 88.3842° W
- Sank
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Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On 20 April 2010, while drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that killed 11 people and ignited a fireball visible from 40 miles (64 km) away. The fire was inextinguishable and, two days later, on 22 April, the Horizon collapsed, leaving the well gushing at the seabed and becoming the largest marine oil spill in history. Built in 2001 in South Korea by Hyundai Heavy Industries, the rig was commissioned by R&B Falcon (a later asset of Transocean), registered in Majuro, and under lease to BP from 2001 until September 2013.
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Deepwater Horizon is a recorded shipwreck site at 28.7417° N, 88.3842° W. Voydar shows wreck locations alongside live ship traffic, free, from Wikidata and public hydrographic records.
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