I thought I heard the tail end of an NPR report that estimated the BP oil gusher rate in olympic swimming pools. Rather than look up the news story I did my own estimate.

A minimum size olympic pool holds 2,500,000 liters of water according to Wikipedia. I've still looking for an official number. An oil barrel is 158 liters, so an OSP is 15,700 oil barrels. The BP oil gusher rate is currently estimated at 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day, or 2.2 to 3.8 OSPs a day. This has gone up recently because they cut the top off the broken pipe.

Here is the NPR story. Illustration is from the Christian Science Monitor.