The Poisoned Gulf
July / August, 2015
The POISONED GULFWhen the Deepwater Horizon blew five years ago, a desperate BP flooded the Gulf with oil-dispersing chemicals. Did the cleanup do more harm than the spill? David Hill never imagined that just doing his job would destroy his life. A fourth-generation fisherman raised in Bayou La Batre, a village on Alabama's Gulf Coast, he also worked as a captain on 500-ton utility ships that service offshore-drilling platforms in the Gulf. The 55-year-old would routinely work from dawn to dusk...