Mexico’s insist-owned oil company acknowledged a fire introduced on by a smash in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico is over, but movies showing efforts to assign out what appears to be like to be an underwater caldron of fire reside on.
The “fire in the sea” used to be assign out at 10: 45 a.m. following a gas leak about 500 toes from a drilling platform, Pemex tweeted. No injuries had been reported and the company acknowledged it took about 5 hours to bring the incident under control.
The company acknowledged it former boats to pump water over the underwater blaze, even supposing nitrogen used to be additionally former to control the fire, Reuters reports, citing a Pemex incident picture.
Mexican publications and journalists reporting on the incident shared movies showing a harrowing scene: A orange glow under the boiling surface of the ocean — and boats spraying streams of water, in an obvious strive to assign out the fire. One of the most fashionable movies mercurial racked up extra than 10 million views on Twitter.
“Certainly no longer in your lifestyles omit the time folk caught the ocean on fire and then tried to assign it out by spraying water on it,” tweeted podcaster Dave Anthony.
On Friday night time, social media used to be awash with reaction to the movies, ranging from confusion to concern:
Contributing: The Linked Press
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