Gulf Oil Spills

To control the oil, they used floating bombs to break the chemical and surface oil down. Many scientists and researchers collected data by looking into details about the Gulf region. There was a big impact on the Gulf coast, marine life, and human communities that some researchers and scientist are still trying to figure out. It is very difficult to clean oil out of the ocean, especially when it’s 3.19 million barrels. There were two different types of oils that were spread in the ocean. What affects how the oil spills is the amount and type. More than 20 percent of the oil that was spilled may have possibly ended up in and on top of the seafloor, this has damaged deep-sea corals and also it has damaged a few other ecosystems. Due to the

Transocean and BP are the people who owned the downed oil rig, possessed insurance that strongly protects them from any losses that relate to the oil spill. Bloomberg News reported that the insurance industry may be negatively be affected by the payout, though, this may also face the record losses of the spill. The BP chief operating officer, Doug Shuttles, made a statement at a press conference on May 12 saying that the containment dome was filled up with slushy-like crystals that floated which caused it to fail. The slushy-like crystals were made from a chemical substance called methane

The oil itself is very harmless to humans, however, the work is risky. The danger that comes from the work is the heavy equipment that is used in the cleanup, the oil fumes have an ability to leave a person unconscious and performing complex operations at sea is a huge risk, as said by General Graham. A finite source of oil and gas was tapped by a rig, which means that the oil leak will eventually grind to a halt without intervention from a human. Large amounts of the size of the artificial lake and the rate of seepage make the estimating