Keep reading for everything you need to know about the pipeline leak, the fire, and how everything turned out, as well as photos and videos of the shocking event.
Two years after the spill, a study initiated by the found matching the oil from the spill in the bodies of cleanup workers.
On 11 May the United States administration requested the National Academy of Engineering conduct an independent technical investigation.
Numerous investigations explored the causes of the explosion and record-setting spill.
The report stated that, although the events leading to the sinking of Deepwater Horizon were set into motion by the failure to prevent a well blowout, the investigation revealed numerous systems deficiencies, and acts and omissions by Transocean and its Deepwater Horizon crew, that had an adverse impact on the ability to prevent or limit the magnitude of the disaster.
They used skimmer boats to remove a majority of the oil and they used to absorb any remnant of oil like a sponge.
The oil and dispersant mixture permeated the through.
The prevailing guess seems to be that an underwater pipeline blew up.