Monthly Archives: July 2010
Deepwater Horizon to scale
I didn’t realise until recently just how deep the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico was drilling. They drilled 10683m downwards, 1835 metres further than the height of Mount Everest.
I made this image to show the scale of the drilling; one pixel is equal to ten metres.
Visualising the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Watching news reports of “millions of gallons” and “thousands of barrels” of oil doesn’t make it easy to visualise the true size of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the destruction of the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
IfItWasMyHome.com makes that visualisation easy:
