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A Sea in Flames : The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout by Carl Safina; OverDrive, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Carl Safina has been hailed as one of the top 100 conservations of the 20th century (Audubon Magazine) and A Sea in Flames is his blistering account of the months-long manmade disaster that tormented a region and mesmerized the nation. Traveling across the Gulf to make sense of an ever-changing story and its often-nonsensical twists, Safina expertly deconstructs the series of calamitous misjudgments that caused the Deepwater Horizon blowout, zeroes in on BP’s misstatements, evasions, and denials, reassesses his own reaction to the government’s crisis handling, and reviews the consequences of the leak—and what he considers the real problems, which the press largely overlooked. Safina takes us deep inside the faulty thinking that caused the lethal explosion. We join him on aerial surveys across an oil-coated sea. We confront pelicans and other wildlife whose blue universe fades to black. Safina skewers the excuses and the silly jargon—like “junk shot” and “top kill”—that made the tragedy feel like a comedy of horrors—and highlighted Big Oil’s appalling lack of preparedness for an event that was inevitable. Based on extensive research and interviews with fishermen, coastal residents,

Who reads A Sea in Flames : The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout?

Author

Carl Safina; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307887368

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Nature, Social Science

Rating

3.8 / 5 (90 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14