2009 Nov 20 2009

West Atlas

Posted by Mitko 0:59 in the category of Internet

In early November off the coast of Australia suffered a fire on oil rig West Atlas. There, according to the news, since August have continued strong oil spill from the mines, could not stop them, the result is a powerful flood. And then in November, during the next attempt to eliminate the leakage of oil, something went wrong and blazed to the sky:

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Fortunately, all the time were evacuated, but the platform could not be saved. Caught here on the eye photo that was left of it:

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Awful spectacle. As a result, dirtied several thousand square kilometers of oil (the largest spill in the history of Australia), in addition burnt platform. Now a special commission to figure out how after all this happened.

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