30 pictures of the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico disaster one year ago
Jessica Cortez
Firefighting boats hose down a massive fire on the oil rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of MexicoCredit: KPA/Zuma / Rex Features In this aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is seen burning on April 22, 2010Credit: AP An oil slick burns on the water after the Deepwater Horizon oil platform sank into the Gulf of Mexico on 22 April 2010Credit: AP Photographs of the 11 lost crew members of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig are seen on display at the entrance to a memorial service held by Transocean in their honour, in Jackson, MississippiCredit: REUTERS Oil from the still-leaking Deepwater Horizon well is visible across the northern Gulf of Mexico seen from NASA's Terra satellite, using a Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)Credit: NASA / GETTY An aerial view of the oil leaked from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead into the Gulf of MexicoCredit: REUTERS A brown pelican coated in heavy oil wallows in the surf on East Grand Terre Island, LouisianaCredit: GETTY An exhausted oil-covered brown pelican tries to climb over an oil containment boom along Queen Bess Island Pelican Rookery, 3 miles northeast of Grand Isle, LouisianaCredit: REUTERS A dead turtle floats on a pool of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay off the coast of LouisianaCredit: Ap A laughing gull coated in heavy oil is seen in the water on East Grand Terre Island, LouisianaCredit: GETTY A pod of Bottle Nose dolphins swim under the oily water of Chandeleur Sound, LouisianaCredit: AP A Greenpeace activist steps through oil on a beach along the Gulf of Mexico near Venice, LouisianaCredit: GETTY A dragonfly tries to clean itself as it is stuck to marsh grass covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in Garden Island Bay on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana near VeniceCredit: AP The crew of a Basler BT-67 fixed wing aircraft release oil dispersant over an oil discharge from the mobile offshore drilling unit, Deepwater Horizon, off the shore of LouisianaCredit: REUTERS Oil-covered brown pelicans found off the Louisiana coast and affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico wait in a holding pen for cleaning at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in Buras, LouisianaCredit: AFP/GETTY This NASA Earth Observatory image taken by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite shows a false-colour, high-resolution view of the very tip of the Mississippi River Delta. Ribbons and patches of oil that have leaked from the Deepwater Horizon well offshore are silver against the light blue colour of the adjacent water. Vegetation is red. Oil smoothes the water, making it a better mirror, so the oil-covered waters are very bright in this imageCredit: AFP/GETTY / NASA Oil and oil sheen are seen moving past an oil rig (top right) in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, LaCredit: AP Workers pick up oily globs as they remove residue washing ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in Pascagoula, MississippiCredit: GETTY BP CEO Tony Hayward's shoes are checked for oil after he walked an oil-stained beach at Port Fourchon, LouisianaCredit: GETTY US President Barack Obama picks up balls of tar on the beach in Port Fourchon, LouisianaCredit: GETTY Oil flows out of the top of the transition spool, which was placed into the gushing wellhead and will house the new containment capCredit: AP Smoke rises from a controlled burn in the Gulf of MexicoCredit: GETTY A controlled oil burn is seen near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spillCredit: AP Dead fish on the waterways north of Point a la Hache Marina, LouisianaCredit: P.J. Hahn/AP Protesters stand behind BP CEO Tony Hayward, as he arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, to testify before the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and oil spillCredit: AP Globules of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill are seen from an underwater vantage in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice, LouisianaCredit: PA Gas from the damaged Deepwater Horizon wellhead is burned by the drillship Discoverer Enterprise in the Gulf of MexicoCredit: AFP/GETTY With a sheen of oil as far as the eye can see, the Joe Griffin arrives at the rig explosion site carrying the containment vessel which will be used to try to contain the Deepwater Horizon oilCredit: AP These images taken from video provided by BP show the oil leak before and after the flow of oil was choked off on July 15, 2010Credit: AP / BP
Jessica Cortez 
