Yolanda Monge, El País
These are the unpublished images of the exact moment of what would later become the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history. The impressive frames showing the collapse of the rig that the April 20 ended the lives of 11 workers and oil covered.
Oil has continued to escape ever since. Now, 50 days after the last attempt to put into practice last week by BP, the company that owns, (placing a hood over the leak to catch the flowing oil) is working. Modest, but results.
The last magnitude of the disaster is still unknown, although the photographs offered by National Geographic Channel, along with a documentary entitled The Gulf Disaster, National Geographic premieres today (Digital dial 61 +) to test the 2315-to slaughter coming. In the images we see how the platform sinks. A team of National Geographic Channel went immediately to the area know nothing of the accident and has documented what happened in the 36 hours following the explosion with the help of the U.S. Coast Guard. The visual record is for history.
"We will leave this crisis," the president promised yesterday Barack Obama. Will contain the spill. It will take significant time and cost effort, "the president after a meeting with his Cabinet on a disaster that is happening a high bill, the vast majority of Americans disapprove of the president in case of BP -. "I have total confidence that we will overcome it," said Obama.
BP plans to mobilize another tanker yesterday to the scene of the disaster to collect the oil that is bringing to the surface from more than 1,500 meters below the sea. Admiral Thad Allen, head of the guard in front of the cleaning operation, said yesterday that the intention of BP is to capture about 20,000 barrels of oil a day (over three million liters). On Sunday, including more than 1.7 million liters. It is still unknown how much oil has spilled into the Gulf. Government scientists have placed the number between 12,000 and 25,000 barrels per day, which would be between two and four million liters per day from the start of the crisis for more than six weeks.
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