Its an year over today, since the biggest chocolate fudge was started preparing. On April 20,2010, the British Petroleum's Chocolate fudge preparation in the Gulf of Mexico was initiated by a buildup of abnormal pressure in their oil drilling platform - Deep horizon followed by a jet of methane gas under high pressure getting ignited when trying to escape through the drilling columns. This methane gas explosion started the ignition of the entire platform - which acted as the stove for the fudge preparation.
This oil leak which lasted for 5 months leaked almost 5 million barrels of oil in to the sea and USA got the proud certification of the world's best polluter of the environment. The effects of this chocolate fudge in sea couldn't be explained in words!!! What more cruel can man do to nature!!
British Petroleum was blamed for not having followed adequate safety norms before explosion and for not able to control the leak after it started. The job that they had to do is to put a cap on the pipe where the leak was happening. But its not as simple as putting on a condom!!
It required strenuous scientific efforts by the entire team and US government. The leak part before and after the sealing of the cap is shown below:
The leak had so many lessons to teach to the mankind! And one year after one of the worst accidents, the Food and Drug Administration has found only 13 out of 1735 tissue samples from sea food show traces of oil residues. And that the sea food is safe to consume. Other than teaching us lessons, and giving huge losses to BP, this incident atleast helped some small scale industries to grow by printing t-shirts on this theme. Some hit t-shirt designs were:
This chocolate fudge is not only the biggest but also the most expensive one to mankind and nature!!!
Let's pray that we don't face such a disaster atleast in our lifetime.
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