Mexico’s state-owned oil company said a fire caused by arupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico is over but as perthe contents in the video which shows the efforts of putting off the fire, itseems as if this was not fire but an underwater caldron of fire.
The “fire” was put off at 10:45 a.m which was followed bya gas leak in a drilling platform which is about 500 feet long, Pemex tweeted.
The whole incident took about 5 hours to come undercontrol. The company said that no injuries were caused.
The company also reported that the fire was put off byusing boats to pump water and by using nitrogen considering a Pemex incidentreport.
Mexican publications and journalists shared terrificvideos as well as pictures that have over 10 million views on Twitter. Thehorrific scenes show an orange glow below the boiling under the surface of theocean — and boats spraying streams of water, in an attempt to put out the fire.The pictures, as well as the videos, are all over the internet.
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A podcaster Dave Anthony wrote as a caption in his tweet,"Never in your life forget the time humans caught the ocean on fire andthen tried to put it out by spraying water on it"
Social media was overcrowded with a lot of variablereactions ranging from concern to confusion. Some people can’t even believe thehorrors that the undersea gas pipeline brought with it.