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This electronic book on DVD-ROM provides an encyclopedic collection of up-to-date documents, images, and videos about every aspect of the Deepwater Horizon - BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, from the initial explosion to the containment and cleanup effort, federal government and industry response, and investigation - along with guides to oil spill cleanup and environmental impacts. On April 20, 2010, while working on an exploratory well approximately 50 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana, the semi-submersible drilling rig Deepwater Horizon experienced an explosion and fire, killing eleven workers. The damaged platform capsized and sank on April 22, 2010. The rig is owned by Transocean and under contract to British Petroleum (BP). Oil threatens natural habitats, wildlife, and fishing along the Gulf coast. This exceptional four gigabyte collection includes over 56,000 pages reproduced in over 50 Adobe Acrobat PDF files, 51 video files in mov and wmv formats, and nearly 350 image files in JPG format. Contents include material from the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command operation, the U.S. Coast Guard (with videos of the explosion and rig fire, controlled burn attempts, rescue operations, ROV subsea operations, Top Hat operations), NOAA Office of Response and Restoration, NOAA National Ocean Service, NOAA Fisheries Service, U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the FWS National Contingency Plan, National Park Service, Minerals Management Service (MMS), EPA, NASA, CDC, White House (oil supplemental package, legislative package, establishment of a national commission), and Congressional hearings with industry and scientific testimony. In addition to the specific coverage of the Deepwater Horizon incident and response, there is coverage of all associated oil spill and offshore drilling issues: planning and exercises for Spills of National Significance; effects on habitats, shorelines, coastlines, wildlife, fish and fisheries, birds, turtles; dispe