1964 Press Photo Bubbling Waters Where Oil Drilling Rig Exploded, Gulf of Mexico

This is view from a plane showing the bubbling waters in the area where a huge floating oil drilling rig exploded Tuesday morning and sank 72 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. A stray pocket of shallow gas was blamed for the worst disaster in offshore oil drilling history early Tuesday morning. There are two known dead, 18 missing and 25 injured, some seriously. The accident occurred about 100 miles south-southwest of Morgan City, 72 miles from the nearest point of land, in Block 273, Eugene Island area.

Photo is dated 1964.

Photo measures 10 x 8 inches.