Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83659to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Deep Water: The Anatomy of a Disaster, the Fate of the Gulf, and How to End Our Oil Addiction Author: Peter Lehner Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 15, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling five thousand feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the $560 million rig would be indispensable in helping to solve the ongoing energy crisis. Then, on April 20, 2010, BP’s dismal safety record came home to roost. An explosion followed by a massive fireball resulted in eleven lives lost, the sinking of the rig, and the release of millions of barrels of crude oil into one of the world’s prime fishing grounds: tens of millions of barrels suffocate the Gulf’s waters, and the resultant slick covers 2,500 square miles. Wildlife throughout the region is devastated, and so is the human community dependent on harvesting the area’s resources. Now, OR Books has joined with the Natural Resources Defense Council to release In Deep Water, the first book to appear on this environmental catastrophe, the largest offshore spill in American history. Written by Peter Lehner, executive director of the NRDC, together with Bob Deans, this book provides a brief account of the disaster as well as the policy failures that caused it––and lays out a blueprint to avoid similar catastrophes in the future.

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