We're discussing the BP spill.
You are the one that said the Deepwater Horizon was the worst in history, I was just showing you that was not true. Actually the Exxon Valdez was also infinitely more serious because it happened in a shallow extremely cold water sound which meant that it took many years for the oil to break up and caused many bird deaths as a result.
Actually, my pedantic pederastic Pommie pal, Wiki said it, not I.
Come to NOLA and tell the people there the Gulf spill was "11 dead and a few oiled birds and some shrimps".
Pommy pal, are you Australian? I am just trying to give you some perspective on the oil spill, an attempt to create more light than heat. I might also point out that there were only seven BP personnel on that rig. The accident was caused by US personnel from Halliburton and Transocean plus a faulty blowout preventer supplied by Cameron. BP have settled with Cameron to the tune of $250 million over the incident.
http://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/BP+plc+(BP)+Settlement+w+Cameron+(CAM)+Over+Deepwater+Horizon+Incident%3B+Will+Get+%24250M/7025383.html
Try to focus, Tom.
The BP spill is by far the world’s largest accidental release of oil into marine waters, according to the most precise estimates yet of the well’s flow rate...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/us/03spill.html?_r=2&fta=y
You are trying to equate biggest with worst, the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of that oil never reached land unlike Ixtoc I and Exxon Valdez.
Do you need reading glasses, Tom?
The BP spill spewed 4.1m barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over 87 days, making it the biggest unintentional offshore oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...ak-the-worlds-worst-accidental-oil-spill.html
You are the one with comprehension issues, I repeat "you are trying to equate biggest with worst, the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of that oil never reached land unlike Ixtoc I and Exxon Valdez".