(CBS News) Thirty-eight miles off the Louisiana coast, a platform stopped producing oil more than a decade ago. "This rig is scheduled ... to scuba divers as an underwater Garden of Eden.

As offshore oil and gas platforms come to the end of ... Above the water, this decommissioned oil rig is dull and lifeless, but the view below the surface is very different. Beneath the waves ...

But, the majority of oil rigs are designed to float. There are several different kinds of platforms that float, including Tension Leg Platforms. Tension Leg Platforms are moored via underwater ...

The future of the coast's 27 aging oil platforms — all of them off ... known as the "jacket" of the oil rig. Now underwater, sea lions dive and dart away. Schools of fish — halfmoon and ...

The law allows oil companies to leave much of their platforms’ underwater structure in place when they decommission their rigs, if they can prove doing so would offer a “net environmental ...

below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, and under one of California's offshore oil platforms ... of California's offshore oil rigs, and what's at stake for the underwater ecosystems that have ...

The Gulf is one of the richest deposits of offshore oil and gas in the world, and almost 600 unused rigs have been left as underwater reefs ... rigs (also called platforms) more than two miles ...

Because Holly is already owned by the state, not an oil company, its transition could illuminate how to evaluate the fate of rigs worldwide based on science, not politics. According to platform ...

The history of offshore drilling began in the late 19th century with early oil platforms ... with rigs operating at unprecedented depths of up to 3,000 meters underwater. In Brazil, new ...