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An explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico kills 11 people and leads to a massive oil spill. Days after the April 20, 2010 explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, underwater cameras revealed the damaged wellhead pipe was leaking oil and gas on the ocean floor about 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. By the time the well was capped 87 days later on July 15, 2010, an estimated 3.19 million barrels of oil had leaked into the Gulf. More