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lifeboat stations. Personnel, including crew members, contractors and visiting
executives from BP and Transocean, evacuated the rig on two lifeboats and a life
raft. At least six people jumped from the rig into the water.

At 10:00 p.m., the Damon Bankston, which prior to the explosions had been
directed by the Deepwater Horizon to move 500 meters away from the rig,
received distress calls from the Deepwater Horizon and prepared its fast recovery
craft for launch and rescue of those who had abandoned the rig. The Damon
Bankston retrieved six people from the water and recovered another 108 people
from the two lifeboats and life raft. Uncontrollable fires continued to blaze on
the Deepwater Horizon, and the rig sank on the morning of April 22.

Eleven men died as a result of the blowout and sixteen others were
injured. Estimates are that the Macondo well spilled close to five million barrels
of oil into the Gulf of Mexico during 87 days between the blowout and when the
well was successfully capped on July 15, 2010. After months of additional
intervention work, the well was permanently sealed on September 19, 2010.

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