A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout

Safina watched the Gulf of Mexico die in real time and his rage is ecological, personal, and precise. Eleven men died on the rig; the Gulf ecosystem bled for months. He tracks the disaster through the corporate denials, the inadequate response, the long underwater plumes of oil that government scientists were forbidden to confirm. A love letter to a sea being killed by indifference dressed as commerce.