Assignment - Louisiana Deep Water

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2011

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A year ago, the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico creating a huge oil spill. In the aftermath, the BBC's Robyn Bresnahan spent a month in the American state of Louisiana with fishing families to see how they were affected. She found many communities on the brink, with fishermen fearing they would never fish again. One year on, she has returned to meet with some of the same families.

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0:00.0	BBC's BBC's?
0:03.0	You're with the BBC.
0:07.0	Now on BBC World Service Assignment.
0:10.0	One year after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico,
0:13.0	the BBC's Robin Brezner-Hern returns to the American state of Louisiana
0:17.0	to see how fishing families are fearing today.
0:30.0	This is dead. This is dead.
0:37.0	He's a triple dead.
0:41.0	You know, saying of the dead.
0:44.0	Every arse that's not in it.
0:46.0	Look at this arse that, you know.
0:48.0	He's a beautiful arse that I just go.
0:52.0	Nick Collins has the deeply canned skin of a man
0:55.0	who spent most of his 39 years on a boat,
0:58.0	fishing for oysters.
1:00.0	Since he was 10, he's been working for his dad's business,
1:02.0	Collins Oyster Company.
1:05.0	It's hard breaking to see great arse that's died.
1:09.0	And to see the amount of dead arse that are dead
1:13.0	because of BP's arse bill, it's hard.
1:16.0	I'm for generation arse that's hard to believe
1:20.0	that I didn't go out and work this one.
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