Biodiversity In The Atlantic Ocean

In an advancing twenty first century, technology is playing a part in every sector of people’s lives. There are always positive and negative affects to everything, and new technologies are a prime example of this. People have always been interested in what the World’s oceans can provide, and people are using new technology to investigate these possibilities. However, technology can have a negative affect on different biodiversity in the ocean. Focusing specifically on the Atlantic Ocean, biodiversity is experiencing the positive and negative affects of technology. This paper will explain these new types of technology and the positive and negative affects of those technologies on biodiversity in the Atlantic Ocean. The method that I used to research this subject was literature review. A literature review is an assessment report of information found in the literature related to your selected area of study. The review should describe, summaries, evaluate and clarify this literature. Through researching this subject, it was clear that no report or article evaluated both the positive and negative affects of technology on …show more content…
Throughout the past few years, people have seen a lot of harm on biodiversity because of technology. The first example I will give in this report is The Deepwater Horizon oil spill or also known as the BP Oil Spill. On April 20, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon oilrig exploded causing an the entire rig to sink. This in turn caused a collapse of the oil well. This collapse of the oilrig caused oil to gush from the ocean floor for 87 days. The total estimate of oil that was exerted from the ocean floor was 4.9 billion barrels. It was considered one of the biggest oil spills of all time. This was the cause of faulty technology. If the oilrig had more advanced technology, this disaster could have been avoided. The amount of biodiversity that was affected is