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This electronic book on DVD-ROM provides an encyclopedic collection, updated in 2011, of documents, images, and videos about every aspect of the Deepwater Horizon - BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, with 158 documents from the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, including the final report released in January 2011. There is extensive coverage of the initial explosion, the containment and cleanup effort, federal government and industry response, and investigation - along with guides to oil spill cleanup and environmental impacts. This exceptional four gigabyte collection includes over 57,000 pages reproduced in 218 Adobe Acrobat PDF files, many video files in mov and wmv formats, and image files in JPG format. In addition to the comprehensive coverage of the oil spill commission, there is material from the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command operation, government plans for restoring the gulf, the U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA Office of Response and Restoration, NOAA National Ocean Service, NOAA Fisheries Service, U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the FWS National Contingency Plan, National Park Service, Minerals Management Service (MMS), EPA, NASA, CDC, White House (oil supplemental package, legislative package, establishment of a national commission), and Congressional hearings with industry and scientific testimony. With the leak finally sealed, attention has turned to the investigation of the accident, environmental damage from the oil spill, restoration of the Gulf coast and ecosystem, and the future of offshore drilling. The commission report provides authoritative, official findings on the causes and consequences of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, with proposals for comprehensive reforms of both government and industry practices to overhaul the U.S. approach to drilling safety and greatly reduce the chances of a similar, large scale disaster in the future. Our investigation shows that a series of