Introduction:
Humans use the oceans for multiple reasons such as food sources, transportation, and recreation. Oceans are one of those wonderful resources that mother nature has given to us. Unfortunately, humans have recently over the past 100+ years had a significantly negative impact on the once beautiful oceans. 7 Gold will be on a treasure hunt to find out why these negative impacts on the oceans are happening and to try and fix that problem.
Problem and its Cause:
Oil spills occur because of an accident or human errors. Oil is among the most important energy sources used in the world and because of its uneven distribution, it is transported by ships across the oceans and by pipelines across the lands. This has resulted in several accidents
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Seabins get any type of pollution in the oceans. The more rubbish that we can get from the ocean and turn the rubbish into more seabins the quicker the ocean can become cleaner. Seabins are quicker to collect rubbish and oils than other ways to catch rubbish and oils. The seabins catches at an estimated average of 1.5kg of floating debris per day (weather would affect the amount that a seabins picks up. The more rubbish that the seabins project gets the more they could find out about both what people are dumping in the ocean and how to make the seabins better (e.g. to make the seabins bigger so then more rubbish and oil can be collected and will make the process quicker). If the seabins notices average 1.5kg of floating debris per day then seabins would collect at least half a ton per year.
Disadvantages:
Animals could get sucked into the seabins and will not be able to get out because of the suction, animals (such as platinum) could be caught in pieces of rubbish and can be sucked into the seabins.
Other solutions:
There could be multiple other solutions such as people going around in a ship made of plastic bottles from the ocean and collecting more plastic bottles and many other types of rubbish. There are other ways such as letting the oils break down naturally which may vary time wise depending if the oils are a light oil or a heavy
Charles Searles is an African-American artist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1937. The second son of a total of eight children, Searles main focus as a child was becoming an artist. Searles' mother encouraged and equipped Charles with tools to continue his passions while he grew up. Charles went to Salsburger High School, all the while working as a carpenter for his father. During his young adult life, he went to the armed forces to be able to help raise his family. Searles went for his undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania in 1973. In 1974, he graduated the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with honors accomplishments. Around this time, Charles received the Cresson Medal scholarship to travel to Amsterdam. Searles also received the Ware Memorial Traveling Scholarship, where he was the first student to use the grant to travel to Africa.
Major exploration may harm the environment due to how we exploit resources. According to Philippe Cousteau’s commentary, he states that “the world has fished, mined and trafficked the ocean’s resources to a point where we are actually seeing dramatic changes that are seriously impacting today’s generations” (70). This emphasizes that attempting major exploration has an impact in our environment. Additionally, Elisabeth Rosenthal’s “Stinging Tentacles Offer Hint of Oceans’ Decline” gives us an idea how pollution affects the climate. Dr. Josep-MarÍa Gili
Somehow our oceans maintain the balance between being some of the most powerful forces on the earth, and the most easily disturbed masses on the planet. There are so many things that could go wrong within the countless cycles, and the delicate processes that stabalize nature and sustain the biosphere; and people are continually interfering with these cycles. Ocean acidification is one of the most obvious results of human interference upon nature. “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.” ("R. Buckminster Fuller, in Memoriam").
Harmfull Effects of Ocean dumping include animals in danger with trash in their habitat, as well as contamination of public waters.
There are many causes to petroleum in b the oceanic environment. Oil naturally seeps into the ocean but the natural concentrations have been greatly exceeded. Shipping oil from one place to another contributes the most to oil in the ocean. The crude oil from transportation b is discarded into the ocean while cleaning bilges, which are the lowest compartment in ships, and transferring oil from tank to tank at sea. “Disasters like shipwrecks, oil tanker accidents, and offshore oil rigs fires continue to this problem, as does the disposal of urban garbage into oceans, dumping of waste oil by passing ships, commercial coastal and off-shore entertainment, and deep-sea industrial and nuclear waste dumps”(“Marine Water Quality”). Another large polluter is the oil industry. Tanker ports and refineries are located by the coast for shipping purposes. The coastal areas receive considerable damage from the spills. “Large numbers of seabirds are killed annually, their oil-matted plumage making flight impossible and exposing them to hypothermia. Oil-soaked fur of marine mammals loses its water repellency, also leading to death by hypothermia. Ingestion of oil by fishes, birds, and mammals may also result in death”(“Marine Pollution”). Another source of petroleum pollution is from the city streets. Oil runoff from urban streets and sewers enter waterways and the ocean. Oil has a very long term ecological impact on the ocean and the marine ecosystems. “The presence of oil in marine waters severely degrades water quality by clogging an animal’s feeding - structure, killing larvae, and blocking available sunlight for photosynthesis”(“Marine Water Quality”). Petroleum pollution has been a large problem for a very long period of time. “As early as 197p, oceanographic ecologists noted that they could rarely pull a net through the surface of the ocean without collecting some form of tar or
Water pollution has had devastating effects on the environment, which include irreversible effects on the oceans ecosystem. People often underestimate the importance of the ocean. They don’t realize how much damage pollution has caused to the ocean and the thousands of creatures that inhabit it. Earth is a huge place, but resources are actually very limited and will not last forever unless there is a balance. We must protect the resources we have in order for them to last into the next generation.
" Oil is the life blood of our modern industrial society. It fuels the machines and lubricates the wheels of the world’s production. But when that vital resource is out of control, it can destroy marine life and devastate the environment and economy of an entire region…. The plain facts are that the technology of oil-- its extraction, its transport, its refinery and use-- has outpaced laws to control that technology and prevent oil from polluting the environment…" (Max, 1969). Oil in its many forms has become one of the necessities of modern industrial life. Under control, and serving its intended purpose, oil is efficient, versatile, and productive. On the other hand, when oil becomes out of control, it can be one of the most devastating substances in the environment. When spilled in water, it spreads for miles around leaving a black memory behind (Stanley, 1969).
When people hear the phrase "oil spill: they think a bunch of black stuff all in the water. Well there is a lot more to it then just that. It is an economical disaster as well as an environmental one. As you read along you will see how devastating this one oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, really was compared to others. Whether you, as the reader believe it or just think it is something that is none of you concern and happened 10 years ago is completely up to you. I think that your mind will change after hearing all the facts.
Review: The opportunity and endeavor of exploring the Earth’s oceans can reap great rewards for mankind and unravel many of the mysteries that the Earth has left to discover.
"Ocean Pollution." MarineBio Conservation Society ~ Marine Biology, Ocean Life Conservation, Sea Creatures, Biodiversity, Research... Web. 19 May 2014.
Salty dihydrogen monoxide, known as the ocean contains many species of osteichthyes, chondrichthyes, and agnathans. Or in laymen’s terms, fish. These animals are threatened by the world today for one main reason, humans. We have done the undesirable, but for probable cause. We have created a market for workers to earn money by fishing, bringing in tons of fish to be sold to the public, and have gotten rid of dangerous wild animals in the oceans so people are free to swim in the ocean safely. But what have we as humans done to threaten the ocean species population? If possible can we help fix what damage we’ve done? Both exceedingly good questions, the first being that we have craved more and more
Oceans generate half of the oxygen we breath, the ‘living’ oceans absorb carbon dioxide. Finally, they reduce the impact of climate change. Since most of our oceans is polluted, we are lacking in most of these three astonishing things the ocean provides us. How should we save it? By reducing plastic use, being careful of what goes down the drain, and contributing to organizations that help conserve the ocean.
Bowermaster, Jon. Oceans: The Threats to Our Seas and What You Can Do to Turn the Tide: A Participant Media Guide. New York: PublicAffairs, 2010. Print.
The ocean can serve man purposes things for many different people; as a school, a home, a park...
If you know more about oceans you will be able to understand the importance of it, and that will lead you to protect the ocean. You can start reading about the causes that make a damage to our ocean, also you can aware your self by reading about the solutions of it. Oceans takes a large amount of the earth, if less people knew about the importance of ocean, then we will be probably in danger. However, we can’t live without oceans, and we must learn about how much we depend in oceans from livelihood and nutrition, to relaxation and hobbies. “Scientists believe that life on Earth began in the ocean, approximately 4 billion years ago. And in fact, it was only about 500 million years ago that life emerged from the ocean onto the land. That means that ocean life has existed 8 times longer.” (http://www.earthskids.com/ek_science-marine.htm ). That’s really a long time, which means that we cannot live without oceans, so we should protect the oceans to save our life and marine life, that can be happen by educating our self about oceans, to discover the importance of ocean, and do our best to protect