You know, this is it, I'm gonna die right here. Donald Clark, 49, of Newellton, La. The latter rendered his left arm nearly useless as he tried to help the crew get off the ship. In addition to the spill's heavy environmental toll, its financial one has currently cost BP $53.8 billion in cleanup, fines and settlements. "My dad was not only the best father ever, but still after being in my 30s, was a man that I called a friend," wrote one of his daughters, Jessica, in a victim impact statement. Members of Code Pink march toward BP headquarters in Houston on May 24, 2010, to stage a protest against the catastrophic oil spill off the coast of Louisiana. NOAA is restricting commercial and recreational fishing in oil-affected portions of the Gulf of Mexico.Full Coverage: Disaster in the Gulf. A father of two. Blood ran from a head wound into his eyes. Full Coverage: Disaster in the GulfMore Photos, This image of the Gulf Coast and the oil spill, taken on April 25 by NASA's Aqua satellite and using its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument, shows the Mississippi Delta on the left and the wide oil slick to the right. Jason was a toolpusher on the DWH and a member of the Midfield Community Church. "A human at that depth would be crushed to the size of a tennis ball," says Geoffrey Orsah, dean of the SMU School of Engineering. ", Jones, 28, was a drilling fluids specialist. "I feel this God-awful burning all over me, and I'm thinkin' 'Am I on fire?' These photos of the real Deepwater Horizon explosion might show what really happened, but they lack the firsthand experience of what happened on the rig that night. An oil soaked pelican takes flight after Louisiana Fish and Wildlife employees tried to corral him on an island in Barataria Bay just inside the the coast of Louisiana, May 23, 2010. That is a week in April in which I will always be reminded of tragedy and loss -- a reminder that will take place each and every year for the rest of my life.". Full Coverage: Disaster in the Gulf More Photos, Colonies of brown pelicans and seagulls gather in the Breton Sound of the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana on Saturday, May 1, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon has affected wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico. Charlie Crist walk along Casino Beach on Pensacola Beach, Fla., Tuesday, June 15, 2010, as they visited the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.Full Coverage: Disaster in the Gulf. Jason Anderson, 35, of Midfield died Tuesday, April 20, in the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon explosion. Deepwater Horizon helps. It later emerged through documents released by Wikileaks that a similar incident had occurred on a BP-owned rig in the Caspian Sea in September 2008. Ill float to an island somewhere. Roshto, 22, was a floorhand who joined Transocean in 2006. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill adversely affected wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico, including marine mammals, sea turtles, birds, fish, and invertebrates. Here is a list of the 11 workers who died after a blast on the BP-leased drilling rig Deepwater Horizon on April 20, 2010, about 50 miles southeast of the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. The Deepwater Horizon rig disaster caused the deaths of 11 crew and a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. 4 million barrels of oil flowed from the damaged Macondo well over an 87-day period, before it was finally capped on July 15, 2010. Full Coverage: Disaster in the GulfMore Photos, Rescue boats spray the fire on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, Thursday, April 22, 2010. -Deepwater Horizon: Disaster in the Gulf This Coast Guard image shows flames engulfing the real Deepwater Horizon oil rig. On the morning of April 12 after burning for about a day and a half the Deepwater Horizon sank. Full Coverage: Disaster in the Gulf, Starfish are seen washed ashore on the Chandeleur Islands, home of the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, is seen off the Southeastern coast of Louisiana, Tuesday, April 27, 2010. One of those killed on the rig was Karl Kleppinger, 38, of Natchez, Mississippi, who leaves behind a wife, Tracy, and a 17 year-old son, Aaron. As the film emphasizes, the Deepwater Horizon didn't pump oil. He was their first-born son and second child. In our investigation into the Deepwater Horizon true story, we learned that during the hearings, Senator Jeff Sessions expressed his disappointment at the lack of information offered by industry witnesses, stating that the senators and congressmen had learned more from watching Williams' 60 Minutes interview. Two grandsons born since the disaster are named for him. Full Coverage: Disaster in the Gulf More Photos, President Barack Obama, left, picks up a "tar ball" as LaFourche Parish president Charlotte Randolph, center, and U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, National Incident Commander for the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, look on during a tour of areas impacted by the Gulf Coast oil spill, Friday, May 28, 2010, in Port Fourchon, La. Out in the Gulf, he would listen to sermons that a friend had loaded onto his MP3 player. At 24, Weise was the second youngest to die and the only one who did not have children. Written in Wite-Out under the brim of his blue hard hat were two dates: His and Natalies anniversary, and their son Blaines birthday. Survivors said the blast blew him off a catwalk, and that he fell more than 50 feet to the deck. Two days later, following a series of pressure tests, it was announced that the well was completely sealed. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kate Hudson, Dylan O'Brien, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich |, Copyright 2023 HistoryvsHollywood.com, CTF Media, Yes, but not as the disaster began. An unidentified girl avoids puddles of oil on the beach in Gulf Shores, Ala., Friday, July 2, 2010. Oil from last month's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf has started drifting ashore along the Louisiana coast. Jason was 35 years old when the Gulf Coast oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, burst into flames on April 20, 2010 - causing one of the worst environmental man-made disasters in history. "It was the loudest thing I've ever heard in my life." The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is even worse than believed and as the government grows concerned that the rig's operator is ill-equipped to contain it, officials are offering a military response to try to avert a massive environmental disaster along the ecologically fragile U.S. coastline. "It's one of the largest sets ever constructed in the history of film," says star Mark Wahlberg, who portrays chief electronics technician Mike Williams. He was a fan of Louisiana State University athletics and had football and basketball season tickets. To help battle the worst ecological disaster our nation has ever faced, millions of feet of containment boom were laid with the help of local fishermen. Full Coverage: Disaster in the GulfMore Photos, The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns and begins to collapse into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, April 22, 2010. As explained in the movie, the negative test was done to determine whether the cement job to seal the well had worked. He was survived by his wife, Sheila, and four children: James, Krystal, Donald Jr. and Tandrea. Environmentalists are calling on the White House to speed up the restoration of the oil-damaged Mississippi River delta by getting BP PLC to pay $5 billion now for environmental damage caused by the spill. Anderson was 35. "The rig sank on my birthday, and Dale's birthday was April 24th. Photos: Animals Hurt By Gulf Oil Spill Full Coverage: Disaster in the Gulf Complete Coverage: Disaster in the GulfComplete Coverage: Disaster in the Gulf, A dead turtle floats on a pool of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay, off the coast of Louisiana, Monday, June, 7, 2010. Karl Kleppinger Jr., 38, Natchez, Mississippi. But when his girlfriend, Natalie, told him she was pregnant, he quit school, applied to go offshore and landed an ordinary seamans position on the Deepwater Horizon. He was also a military veteran who served in the U.S. Army during Operation Desert Storm. Kleppinger, 38, was a floorhand who had worked with Transocean for 10 years. The rig seen in the movie is an 85% scale recreation of the actual Deepwater Horizon rig. An oil slick is seen in the Gulf of Mexico, Thursday, July 15, 2010. Chief Electronics Technician Mike Williams had just hung up from a call with his wife when he heard the engines revving, saw the lights glowing, and heard the alarms (in the movie, his wife sees his room get brighter on a video call but in real life he was already off the call with her). in English from Illinois State University in 2005. Shane M. Roshto, 22, of Liberty, Miss. A worker on the oil skimmer Louisiana Responder looks over oil booms as they collect oil from a leaking pipeline that resulted from the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana on April 27, 2010. Family members of Eugene Moss, 37, of Jayess, Miss., who was on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, read news on their PDAs as they await his arrival with fellow crew members who were safely evacuated, in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Anderson was transferring to another rig, and went out to the Deepwater Horizon to train his replacement, says his widow, Shelley. BATON ROUGE, La. Stephen Ray Curtis, 40, Georgetown, Louisiana. Without any opposing force, oil began to discharge into the gulf. On the inside of his hard hat, he wrote down two dates -- his wedding day and his son's birthday -- to get him through tough times. On April 20, 2010, the oil rig exploded, resulting in the deaths of 11 workers and injuring 17 others. It was essentially a large boat that was floating on the water, unlike some oil rigs that are supported by stilts that reach the ocean floor. The free concert attended by tens of thousands of people was meant to help the Gulf Coast through the oil spill crisis.Photos: Music for the GulfFull Coverage: Disaster in the Gulf. And I didn't hear anything. Curtis co-workers said his turkey call was so realistic, they half expected one of the birds to land on the rig. A glob of oil that washed up with large patches of seaweed appears along the beaches on the west end of Dauphin Island, Ala., Monday, July 26, 2010. His daughter, Lacy, was 5 when he died. His death at the Deepwater Horizon came on his wedding anniversary and four days before his birthday. On April 20, 2010, the oil drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, operating in the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded and sank resulting in the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon and the largest spill of oil in the history of marine oil drilling operations. The explosion was caused by a blowout of the well that the rig was drilling. As evidenced by both witnesses and video of the Deepwater Horizon engulfed in flames, the real-life explosion was equally as bad as what's shown in the movie.