Deepwater Horizon spill: Oil on an ocean canvas
- Jul 14, 2013
- 1 min read
(CNN) Capturing what he couldn’t contain or counteract, photographer Daniel Beltrá took his camera and his unwavering environmentalism to the skies, peering down at the paradoxical beauty of the Gulf Coast oil disaster. Streaks of desert reds and iridescent blues crisscrossing the ocean resembled an oil painting more than an oil spill that is deemed one of the worst in U.S. history. In April 2010, the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana. It released an estimated 210 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico before it was capped on July 15, 2010. The spill directly affected about 68,000 square miles of ocean, almost the size of Oklahoma. It took an incalculable toll on the region’s wildlife and damaged miles of coastlines.
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