in april 2010, the worst oil spill ever recorded occurred when an explosion and fire on the deepwater horizon offshore oil-drilling rig left 11 workers dead and began releasing oil into the gulf of mexico. One of the attempts to contain the spill involved pumping drilling mud into the well to balance the pressure of escaping oil against a column of fluid (the mud) having a density significantly higher thaan those of seawater and oil. In the following problems, you may assume that seawater has a specific gravity of 1.03