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185: The 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster: The Heroic Story Of Mike Williams

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🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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On April 20th, 2010, Mike Williams kissed his wife and daughter goodbye and boarded a helicopter bound for the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig. What Mike thought would be a normal workday suddenly turned into a disaster when an explosion ripped through the rig and claimed 11 crew members’ lives. The tragedy of the Deepwater Horizon and the environmental disaster that followed still haunts the U.S. today.


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Hey, what's up everybody?

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Welcome back to MyLire podcast, episode 185. Today we are going to be kind of switching

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gears and talking about honestly one of the most tragic and worst man-made disasters in

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history and American history. We are going to be talking specifically about the Deep Water

1:06.0

Horizon disaster, which was a huge oil spill explosion. A lot of people lost their lives.

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And it's really a story that I think more people should know all the details around.

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There is a movie Deep Water Horizon, which is excellent. Very good. I highly recommend it.

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When did that come out? Like 2016? Yeah, it was definitely five plus years ago.

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Mark Wahlberg is in it. It's really good, but obviously it's a movie. So there's some

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details that are different. So we just wanted to kind of go over everything. And it really

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just is a mind-blowing story of heroism as well. It's very inspiring. So yeah, I'm excited

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to talk about this one. Yeah, me too. This is one that I find very interesting

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and I think a lot of people put especially like oil drilling, like kind of out of sight

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out of mind, even though we all go to the gas station or all of us that have gas vehicles

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go to the gas station all the time and don't even think about where this is actually coming

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from. Where does it originate at? And it's actually really fascinating to see not only

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