How to clean............Oil Spills
An oil spill is often the result of accidental or careless human behaviour by one individual or several individuals as a whole. An oil spill can also occur when a ship or tanker breaks down; very often causing the vessel to leak oil into the ocean and contaminate our wildlife. In the past, many countries as an act of warfare would dump oil into the oceans of rivalling countries. People will regularly dump oil into lakes and oceans in order to avoid paying to decompose their waste. Oil spills inevitably exterminate everything in the near vicinity and result in the eradication of many aquatic animals, fish and flora. Not only is sea life affected, but countless birds whose feathers get covered in oil and in efforts to clean themselves, get poisoned by the toxicity in oil.
The oil can often enter birds lungs and liver thereby as aforementioned, poison them, causing in there imminent death. Oil spills is one of main causes of manmade death for marine life and is a huge factor contributing to the rarity of some aquatic species and the extinction of many birds. The effects of oil spills are not yet entirely known, but we can recognize wholly that they are negative rather than positive attributes to our aquatic wildlife.
As we scientifically progress and as researchers continue their ever-growing and expanding knowledge about oil spills, we can correctly accumulate ways of cleaning up more the environment effectively, as well as accumulating ways of preventing oil spills in the first place. In the event of an oil spills, boomers (large tubes) can prevent oil from spreading. They sometimes placed around a tanker that is leaking oil, or may be permanent positioned in an entrance to an ocean, like a stream. They are also placed around areas with a large number of inhabitants or consistent amounts of wildlife. Boomers soak up any oil in the ocean that might pose a threat to the ocean’s inhabitants.
Boats called ‘Skimmers’ patrol the oceans skimming along the surface of the water with sorbents that act as sponges to soak up oil. By air, and airplane can fly over the ocean dropping chemicals that break down the oil creating a cleaner and healthier environment. One method, which is rarely used anymore because of the side effect of air pollution, is when oil cleaners burn the oil with fireproof booms that contain the oil. Beaches can be cleaned by high or low-pressure hoses to spray off oil. Vacuum trucks travel up and down beaches in order to vacuum up any toxic waste. Basic items like shovels and sponges all help. Even though they may not contribute a huge amount, all assistance that is received helps in the overall salvation of our marine ecosystems.
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