Comments on: Oil Plumes Headed to Florida Keys

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:15:49 +0000

You are completely right – the deepwater marine life is going to suffer deeply as the oil continues to suck oxygen out of the water as well. The food they eat that is being contaminated is also a serious problem. The fishing industry has already taken a huge hit, and the government is just realizing they should have stepped in much more significantly weeks ago.

The saddest part is that they did have a plan – the plan that failed immediately. From there, they have been hopscotching around different solutions, rolling the dice and hoping this or that will stop the leak. At this point it’s obvious that offshore drilling, although pretty much necessary for our economy, needs to be revamped and re-evaluated for new safety measures and regulations. Nothing BP has tried to stop the oil spill has come close to living up to the understandable expectations we have of them.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:17:36 +0000

Having a background in marine life I can only picture the deep water animals drowning because they are unable to swim through the oil, they must swim to breath. That is not even including the death being caused from the absorption into the ‘skin’ of the animals. Then thinking about the food that they eat being killed and contaminated. I would guess that the fishing industry in the Gulf is detroyed for decades. This is not something that can be easily contained….the fact that so much oil is still spilling into the ocean I am very sad. I am also very disgusted that this has been thought out sooner. This is not the first oil spill, I would think that if companies are going to drill into the earth (and the gov’t allows it) there needs to be a plan for this incident. The fact that this is not the first is unforgiveable. I just hope that some of the wildlife over and under the water can be saved.