Oil Spills in the Ocean
The ocean provides humans with several resources and economic benefits yet it is treated as a worldwide trash basin. Oil spills can harm sea creatures ruin a day at the beach and make seafood unsafe to eat. Photos Of Animal Life Poluted With Oil Google Search Bp Oil Ocean Pollution Oils Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico April 2010 What Happened. . But when oil accidentally spills into the ocean it can cause big problems. Within days of the April 20 2010 explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people underwater cameras revealed the damaged wellhead pipe was leaking oil and gas on the ocean floor about 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Lube Oil Spills into Bayou Casotte at Refinery Pascagoula MS. It is estimated that approximately 706 million gallons of waste oil enter the ocean every year with over half coming from land drainage and waste disposal. The Atlantic Sargassum Belt Th...