When reports of the Japan catastrophe on March 11 blew up on the news no one expected the outcome to be as costly as it proved to be. With Japan having more tsunamis than anywhere else on the planet, people should have been expecting...

On April 20, a fire broke out on the Transocean Deepwater Horizon oil rig 50 miles from the shore of Louisiana. Out of 126 crew members, 11 did not escape the fire-engulfed rig that eventually sank to the bottom of the ocean...