The Crisis
Description
On April 20, 2010 an accident occurred in the Gulf of Mexico when the semi-submersible offshore drilling rig called Deepwater Horizon exploded resulting in the death of eleven people and injuring many others. The accident occurred because of function failures and it resulted in the explosion which led to a huge fire, the sinking of a ship and subsequent oil spill. The fire burned for approximately thirty-six hours. The effect of this crisis resulted in harming the residents, the environment, seafood industry, and economy. Sea creatures such as turtles, and fishes were washed up on shore; showing the effect it had on wildlife. The average death of dolphins went from 63 between the years of 2002-2009 to …show more content…
They used physical barriers, and dispersant to contain the spill. Physical barriers they use is something called floating booms; where it keeps the oil from floating to the shores where it can affect civilians. From here, they can use something called sorbents; where it has the ability to absorb the oil and enable the oil to stick to the surface (http://ocean.si.edu/gulf-oil-spill). Another thing they used is dispersant; where it can break down oil easier for it to either evaporate or be washed away by the waves …show more content…
The main stakeholders affected by this was the environment, marine life and world economy. The fishermen and their families whose main source of income was highly damaged by the spill since it affected all marine life. Tourist life and travel related businesses were also affected, Since tourists like beach areas but they couldn’t travel to those shoreline states affected by the spill the water was not safe at all and even after clean up people had fear and doubt about it and didn’t want to travel those area which highly affected businesses
Description
On April 20, 2010 an accident occurred in the Gulf of Mexico when the semi-submersible offshore drilling rig called Deepwater Horizon exploded resulting in the death of eleven people and injuring many others. The accident occurred because of function failures and it resulted in the explosion which led to a huge fire, the sinking of a ship and subsequent oil spill. The fire burned for approximately thirty-six hours. The effect of this crisis resulted in harming the residents, the environment, seafood industry, and economy. Sea creatures such as turtles, and fishes were washed up on shore; showing the effect it had on wildlife. The average death of dolphins went from 63 between the years of 2002-2009 to …show more content…
They used physical barriers, and dispersant to contain the spill. Physical barriers they use is something called floating booms; where it keeps the oil from floating to the shores where it can affect civilians. From here, they can use something called sorbents; where it has the ability to absorb the oil and enable the oil to stick to the surface (http://ocean.si.edu/gulf-oil-spill). Another thing they used is dispersant; where it can break down oil easier for it to either evaporate or be washed away by the waves …show more content…
The main stakeholders affected by this was the environment, marine life and world economy. The fishermen and their families whose main source of income was highly damaged by the spill since it affected all marine life. Tourist life and travel related businesses were also affected, Since tourists like beach areas but they couldn’t travel to those shoreline states affected by the spill the water was not safe at all and even after clean up people had fear and doubt about it and didn’t want to travel those area which highly affected businesses