Deepwater Disaster

Alternative title: Deepwater Disaster: The Untold Story
Synopsis: This programme reveals the untold story of the 87-day battle to kill the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout a mile beneath the waves, a crisis that became America’s worst environmental disaster. Engineers and oil men at the heart of the operation talk about the colossal engineering challenges they faced and how they had to improvise under extreme pressure, recounting how they used household junk, discarded steel boxes and giant underwater cutting shears to stop the oil, an operation likened by one insider to the rescue of Apollo 13.
Series: Horizon
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2010
Notes: Broadcast on BBC2 on 16/11/2010
Subjects: Engineering; Environmental science; Technology
Keywords: environmental disasters; oil spills; oil wells

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Notes: The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’

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