Gulf of Mexico

Due to the potential dangers of dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico, the American government needs to make dramatic and construal efforts to stop the growth of this dead zone. Hypoxic zones, more commonly known as ‘Dead Zones,’ can be found all over the world, with the second-largest located in the Gulf of Mexico. They are lacking in life because of the absence of the atomic number 8, otherwise known as oxygen. According to the Environmental Encyclopedia, hypoxia occurs when the content of oxygen

The Bp spill in the Gulf of Mexico is considered to be one of the biggest oil spill disasters. The Bp oil spill affect many people and the environment. The oil spill was an oil disaster and globally financial disaster, and it had a negative impact on the sea and the oceans around it. the oil spread everywhere, and it affected every living animals that came in contact with it. However, many tries were made to try to stop the leak, but all failed until the leak was declared officially closed by the

explosion on an oil ridge of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, was the cause of the greatest environmental disaster in history of the United States. This explosion took the lives of eleven men who were working on the ridge, and also ruptured an oil line, which dumped more than 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. This oil spill significantly affected the wildlife of the gulf coast, killing hundreds of fishes, birds, and reptile that call the gulf coast home. The spill also affected global

flooding waters cannot be restored. Pollutants’ such as nitrogen from fertilizer, due to this area being primarily composed of farming land, is making its way toward the Gulf of Mexico. Every year pollutants traveling in the Mississippi River enter the Gulf and contribute to the Coastal Dead Zone; however, this year the Dead Zone in the Gulf

with Perrow's theories, the clean-up effort has not prevented the oil spill from reaching land. When the contract was granted to BP, they accepted responsibility for the cleanup of a spill fifty times larger than the one currently plaguing the Gulf of Mexico, yet they still have not shown any firm, pre-meditated plans for the cleanup of the coastal waters. So when Mr. McKay testified that the Transocean blowout preventer "failed to stop the leak", one must wonder how this is in any way significant

When you think of the Gulf of Mexico the first thing you don’t think of is coral reefs. You don’t even think of it as place to go surfing. If you ask a surfer what a reef is, they would probably say something that gets in my way while surfing. Reefs being either large or small, have grown for over thousands of years. The build-up of limestone or calcite have given way to magnificent structures that many marine animals call home (Science). Reefs are communities in the ocean where more than hundreds

The Gulf of Mexico is a partially locked body of water surrounded by the North American continent (Gulf of Mexico, 2000). The gulf links five southern U.S states: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas and six Mexican states: Tamaulipas, Vera Cruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo (Gulf of Mexico Facts, 2015). The gulf surrounds Cuba and connects to the Atlantic Ocean. The Gulf of Mexico may just seem like another body of water, but that is far from the truth. This body

in the Gulf of Mexico one of the worst catastrophes that has happened in modern history, happened. Moreover, in the United States. The “BP” Gulf oil spill as you might of hear it called. Although, British Petroleum has made every possible attempt to rename the mishap. Years later this incident has had a huge impact in the local infrastructure. Furthermore, this was a compounding effect on the Gulf, 5 short years since Hurricane Katrina leveled the coast. This was just another hit to the gulf residents

economic benefits with the environmental risks involved. An applicable example for showing the relationship between the environment and the economy created by the offshore oil industry is the drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico. The exploration of oil drilling into the Gulf of Mexico dates back to 1938, when the Pure Oil and

not forced to follow the rules, consequently, companies could make wrong decisions in terms of safety for people and environment. Furthermore, U.S. regulators didn’t do their job properly when they were exercising the oversight of activity in the gulf, this fact can be consequence of lobbying pressure from such a powerful industry. 4. In what ways did BP lack the appropriate safety culture? What could it have done to build a stronger safety culture? BP had a lack of safety culture in different