Exxon Valdez oil spill

Sunderland Essay Sixteen-year-old, Abby Sunderland, attempted to sail solo around the world to try to beat her brothers world record but failed along the way. This caused a great deal of controversy. So, should Abby have gone on that journey? Definitely not. First, Abby’s journey was a bad idea because the solo journey endangered others. It endangered the rescue workers, for example, the captain of the French boat fell into the water and almost drowned. “He was fished out in very difficult…

annual fishing seasonoil bounced off Grand Isle and flowed into Terrebonne Bay. In fact, oil fouled 35 p% of the US Gulf Coast’s 2,625 kilometers of shoreline before the spill was done. The murky waters of the Mississippi River Delta hide a vast variety of life, hence the abundnt local commercial and sport fishng. But they also hide the longterm impacts of Deepwater Horizon’s oil spill from the public. The oil that reached shore has been absorbed into the sponge-like wetlands or drifted to the…

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill is better yet known as The BP Oil Spill, The BP Oil Disaster, The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, and the Macondo Blowout. Reasons are because it occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP operated Macondo Prospect. According to the video that we watched in class, eleven people died and seventeen were injured because of the oil spill which is considered as the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. It was a massive, month long spill that…

Portugal was one of the top leading countries in the world, 1300s- 1700s they had more advanced knowledge of the world around them. Since they were constantly fighting with Spain, so then Portugal turned to the sea, after Prince Henry the Navigator established a school of navigation and sagres (Britannica School, Encyclopædia), in that time they had a huge overseas empire that became Europe's largest. The Portuguese were in the lead with trading from Brazil and they beat Spain and the…

The Gulf Oil Spill of 2010 is often called the worst oil spill in US history. On April twentieth 2010 BP oil rig exploded killing eleven people and causing a leakage of about 3.19 million barrels to pour into the gulf. The twenty-two mile long plume not only rested on the surface of the water, but also adhered together and fell to the ocean floor. This largely and negatively affected marine life. The number of average number of dolphin deaths per year went from sixty-three to one hundred and…

stop barrels oil that were gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, covering wildlife, and poisoning water in thick, unescapable oil. It took over 80 days to just stop the leak caused by an oil pipe explosion in 2010. Michael Klare, (2010) states the leak is “something that would not have occurred with proper corporate oversight” (p.1). Four years later, the government, organizations, and volunteers are still trying to clean up the millions of barrels that were dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. Oil is a…

Deepwater Oil Rig Explosion of 2010 On April 20th, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon oil rig located in the Gulf of Mexico, suffered a massive explosion resulting in history’s largest marine oil spill to date. The explosion resulted in an estimated 1,770 kilometers of shoreline being polluted as well as the sinking of the oil rig on April 22nd, 2010 (Pallardy 2015). Transocean, an off-shore drilling company, owned and operated the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which was leased by British Petroleum (BP).…

marine accident. Where the ship’s hull crushes on the ocean bed and damages the coral’s reef. It affects the local communities and nearby areas. Ships grounding affects the ships structure, the hull may suffer a severe casualty. This could also lead to Oil spillage, Cargo leakage has a great effect on the marine ecosystem this can affect the livelihood of the many Marine accidents including ship grounding can prove to be catastrophic not only crews on board but around the surrounding area also.…

An oil spill occurred near Santa Barbara, California. The oil spilled from an on-shore pipeline that broke and leaked into a storm drain which unloads into the Pacific Ocean. The size of the spill has been estimated to be over one-thousand gallons. The spill was uncovered due to people experiences a stench while on the beach alerting authorities. The spill was found to have spread to nine miles. Oil spills can affect living organisms because of its chemical components are toxic .Through exposure…

In this paper I will discuss the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project, its goals and eventual failures. The aim of the Project was to build a 1,070 km underground pipeline to transport oil from three oil fields in the Southwest of Chad, through Cameroon, and ending in a floating facility in the Atlantic Ocean (“Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project”, 2017 para 1). Although the Pipeline succeeded in being built and generating revenue, the Project did not succeed in using that revenue for poverty reduction.…