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11am - 3pm) t's that time to tune up those bikes and toss those riding duds in the wash, you won't need them for the World Naked Bike Ride in San Francisco. It's the second WNBR of the year, in conjunction with Earth Day and the eleventh anniversary of the British Petroleum Deep Horizon explosion and Macondo Well oil spill disaster, the worst oil spill in history that occurred on April 20, 2010. Ironically, environmentalist John Muir's birthday. It is time for the 10th Annual Earth Day World Naked Bike Ride - San Francisco. Each year, our turnout is getting larger and larger, riding bare thro...
Practiced it, executed it, equipped for it for a ri rig of this size, drilling at this depth, experiencing a catastrophic failure. >> how catastrophic? >> when the event first started our best estimate was a thousand barrels a day. but as we began to gather more data, we actually revised that number to 5,000 barrels a day. >> the initial estimate said the macondo well was released 5,000 barrels of oil a day into the gulf. but internally, bp leadership had been warned, the leak could be as great as 70,000 barrels a day. >> if there was anything we could redo in the early days it would be -- you...
Dying. the government couldn't contain the disaster or control the message. >> it is hard to look at these heartbreaking new pictures coming in from the gulf coast. >> we lost the narrative with cnn. it was -- it was an oil piligan every single day. we knew that was coming. we just hadn't prepared everyone for it. >> for months bp engineers tried every day, trying and failing to stop the oil. underwater operations involving huge caps and huge risks, delicately put in motion. >> there was a real risk that it would cause an explosion within the reservoir and leave this uncontrolled spill. >> the...