Deep water horizon

In 2010 the British Petroleum company (BP) shocked the world when their underwater oil pump burst into the gulf of Mexico. This burst was the cause of the companies negligence towards re-inforcing the pipe, just to save a couple of bucks. The spill ran for a period of 3 months, in those 3 months it is believed That approximately 53,000 barrels of oil spilled into the gulf a day. BP appearing very apologetic said that they would pay back the local fisher man for their lost season, but the damage was already done. The spill had killed about 3.5 million fish devastating the local marine life eco-system. In the end it was BP's 25 VP(vice presidents) that halted operations to fix the spill. In all BP lost 3 billion in compensation for the spill. To this day BP's disaster is the number 1 worst disasters to ever happen to the petroleum industry. The moral of this incident is simple, don't be cheap!!