This slideshow is a look at the most interesting photos from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Incident, as seen through the lenses of social media site Flickr’s photographers in the gulf.
To read the words of the people closest to the incident visit the gCaptain forum post Deepwater Horizon – Transocean Oil Rig Fire.
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