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Slick of sunlight-altered oil floating on the Gulf of Mexico after 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. A team of WHOI researchers found that nearly 10% of oil floating on Gulf after spill dissolved into water by sunlight – a process called photo-dissolution
© Cabell Davis III / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WHOI-led study reveals sunlight can help dissolve oil into seawater
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history. The disaster was caused by an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, taking 11 lives and releasing nearly 210 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.