An emergency boat works to put out a fire at the Kab 121 oil platform belonging to the Mexican state-owned oil company PEMEX, in the Gulf of Mexico, on Dec. 3, 2007. After a drilling rig slammed into this production platform, leaving 21 workers dead, a total of 11,700 barrels of oil, about 420 a day, seeped into the gulf.
PHOTO: America Rocio/AP/File
