Oil Spill on the ocean

CLEANING HUMAN 'S MESS IN THE WATERS

One can not perfectly estimate how long it will actually take to clean up the oceans polluted by oil . It always depends on the techniques used the efficiency of the people working on it , how often workers clean the oceans and the budget alloted for the clean-up . Cleaning the ocean is the less difficult part , but expects the recovery to take more than 15 years

If cleaning is the only issue , then 15 to 20 years will definitely be enough , given that all procedures are

effective , all workers are responsible and serious with what they are doing and all alloted budgets are used directly to fund the oil spill clean up

The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill into the Limelight

We can take the Exxon Valdez oil spill as an example . On March 24 1989 , one of the most shocking and seemingly-unrecoverable environmental disasters happened in Prince William Sound , Alaska , United States . This occurrence is said to be among the world 's largest oil spills when it comes to how much oil spill is released to the waters . Prince William Sounds is a place which isn 't easy to access . Because of its remote location , cleaning it was difficult . Workers who need to clean the waters had to ride in boats and helicopters to reach the place (Chandler and Streissguth ,

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What needed to be cleaned was 11 ,000 square miles of ocean or 28 ,000 square kilometers of water . There were 40 .9 million liters of oil , or 10 .8 million U .S gallons of Prudhoe Bay crude oil spilled into the sea Cleaning up seemed impossible and people were hopeless , but there were bigger things at stake like lives of millions of seabirds , seals , sea otters and salmon which belonged to the sea and depended on such habitat for survival (Chandler and Streissguth ,

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There were indeed a lot of delaying tactics in terms of cleaning up the Exxon Valdez oil spill since it was the first time America was confronted with such a big disaster . No one was at least prepared for it . The responses to cleaning up were slow and generally inadequate . The shoreline of the waters was definitely destroyed . There was a dramatic decline in the microbial population . What were needed to start the cleanup were challenged by response management , but was in time attended by 85 aircrafts , 1 ,400 vessels and 11 ,000 personnel . Having been armed with all these , the clean up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill was started in April 1989 (Wells , Butler and Hughes ,

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Cleaning up oil spill can indeed be cleaned up within 15 to 20 years because considering the volume of oil spilled into the ocean by Exxon Valdez , five months was enough to partially clean the ocean and let the government stop the people from cleaning the oceans up . If cleaning up continued , the health of the workers will definitely be jeopardized What Alaska did was to...