The spill covers at least 2500 square miles of ocean surface. You can see the extent of the damage here as of May 13th, just southeast of New Orleans.
But how big is the spill, really? It’s hard to get a sense of the true size when it’s over the ocean floor. Use the links below to see how large the spill is.
I’ve set this map up to overlay on Vancouver. It’s pretty chilling: west to Denman Island, east to the limits of the GVRD, north to near Whistler, and south to the San Juan Islands.
