
A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher
Joel Achenbach
I cannot provide a rewritten description because the source text contains only the cover note ("With a new introduction by the author") and does not include an actual story synopsis.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN-13
- 9781451625370
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- BP oil spillDeepwater engineeringEnvironmental disaster
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyShortlisted(2011)
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