In 1979, an underwater oil well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico near the Yucatán Peninsula. Oil gushed out for 10 months. Four months in, more than half of Texas’s 370-mile Gulf shoreline was covered in oil. In the end, 140 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf.
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4. Ixtoc blowout, 1979
