How to monitor oil spills under the ice? Just go with the floe
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 08:50
in Earth & Climate
The Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010 went on for 87 days. The breached underwater well pumped out an estimated 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Monitoring technology allowed responders to direct resources to intercept the spreading oil plume and prevent the catastrophe from becoming even worse.