Stunning Aerial Pictures of the Gulf Oil Spill
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The oil you can’t see could be as bad as the oil you can. While people anxiously wait for the slick in the Gulf of Mexico to wash up along the coast, globules of oil are already falling to the bottom of the sea, where they threaten virtually every link in the ocean food chain, from plankton to fish that are on dinner tables everywhere. “The threat to the deep-sea habitat is already a done deal — it is happening now,” said Paul Montagna, a marine scientist at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Oil has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of at least 200,000 gallons a day since an offshore drilling rig exploded last month and killed 11 people. On Wednesday, workers loaded a 100-ton, concrete-and-steel box the size of a four-story building onto a boat and hope to lower it to the bottom of the sea by week’s end to capture some of the oil. Crews also set fires at the worst spots on the surface Wednesday to burn off oil.
Here is a look at the oil slick from an aerial perspective. (18 images)
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I was watching on TV today old bean. To say it is huge is an understatement. Frighteningly huge.
You sure you don’t fancy a ‘paypal’ donate button? (not that I have any money right now…but a few weeks hence)
You were right you know. I really didn’t realise the magnitude.
Sorry old bean. It’s finally sunk in.
Let’s just hope eh?
We can only hope my friend. Thanks and the slick is about half the size of England.