Gulf of Mexico

agricultural yields while significantly reducing the size of the Gulf’s hypoxic zones. Agency and government regulations also help: the EPA seems to be making the Gulf’s hypoxic zone a priority for the water initiatives, and the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force hopes to drastically reduce the size of the hypoxic

bright sunny day on the beaches of Cancun, but unusually, the waves were massive that day in mid-December. My family, following the tradition of every time we go to a tropical country for vacation, decided to go paragliding in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. After waiting about an hour to get the tickets for the activity, it finally came time to get on the boat, but in order to get there, we would have to be transported to the boat by jet ski with two passengers and a driver on each one. So then

On April 10, 2011, an oilrig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded. This explosion killed 11 crewmembers and caused the rig to sink to the bottom of the ocean. This caused an estimated 180-185 million gallons of oil to flow into the gulf. It wasn’t until July 15, 2010 until the oil was contained and stopped flowing. The Gulf was virtually covered in crude oil. There were many effects from this spill and many of them were environmental. Animals had to swim through this oil and birds that landed in it

Deepwaster Horizon Oil Spill Written by, Chris Moore The Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also called the Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010, was the largest oil spill in U.S. history, was caused by an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, 2010. It happened in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana. The Deepwater Horizon rig, owned and operated by an offshore oil drilling company named Transocean, and leased by oil company BP, was situated in the

101). The oil spill effected the fish population by a large amount (Brown 18). The largest US oil spill in history is the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, which impacted ecosystems and residents of the Gulf Coast (Peres 1208). In 3 months over 200 million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico (Peres 1208). The BP controlled burned 1.84 million gallons of chemicals to break up the oil (Peres 1208). The clean-up employed several thousand workers (Peres 1208). The

preparations were issued. Gale warnings and a hurricane watch were issued for the islands of Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Dominica, Grenada, Martinique and Guadeloupe. The extremely powerful hurricane struck the Caribbean, eastern and northern Mexico and southern Texas for the duration from August 3rd - August 11th. In the Caribbean, houses in Barbados were either damaged or destroyed. There was a report of 170 km/h and a sea level pressure at a low of 967 millibars in Hewanorra; eighteen people

met with severe criticism for the ecological impacts of the oil spill, as the environment of Gulf of Mexico was completely damaged from the spill. The spill did not only bring about pollution to the marine wildlife but it also destroyed Gulf’s fishing and tourism industries. Like the effects on the physical environment, the social and economic environments were also affected. The waters of the Gulf of Mexico were closed due to pollution from the oil spill. As a result, recreational and commercial fishing

The marshlands and estuaries located throughout the Gulf Coast provide important breeding grounds and nurseries for the fishing and shrimping industries. In 2008, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service, the commercial fish and shellfish harvest from the five U.S. Gulf states was estimated to be 1.3 billion pounds valued at $661 million. "Oil spills are extremely harmful to marine life when they occur and often for years or even decades later," said Jacqueline Savitz, a marine scientist

Seuss’ The Lorax and The Red Snapper Issue in the Gulf of Mexico.“A finite world can only support a finite number of people” (Hardin). In the lorax the Once-Ler believed that he was doing no harm but then more and more trees started to be cutdown until there no longer was any more Truffula Trees (Seuss). With

explosion in the semi-submersible drilling on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig working on the Macondo exploration well for BP in the Gulf of Mexico. The well blowout and subsequent oil spill pumped 3.2 million barrels in the Gulf of Mexico the biggest marine disaster in US history. The fire burned for 36 hours before the rig sank, and the hydrocarbons leaked into the Gulf of Mexico before the well was closed and sealed. After the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, a sea-floor oil gusher