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The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill which followed the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which claimed 11 lives, is the largest accidental marine oil spill in US history.
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Eleven men died in the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, which also dumped millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf in one of the country’s worst environmental disasters. Photo: Reuters
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