I started looking at photos of the oil spill at the BP Deepwater Horizon rig and found these. And then this. Seeing pictures really makes you realise how futile efforts are to contain the spill and how wide in scope it is.
BP has finally released footage of the spill point underwater. Terrifying…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/may/13/video-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill