DISCOVERED A NEW SOLUTION TO CLEAN UP OIL SPILLS

WHICH DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN SPOIL OCEAN

KARMA is a boomerang and now it is a point to pay the price for the decisions. The ocean is never going to be the same again. I usually follow Optimism, but a situation like this made me not to stand by that ideal. We are in serious trouble.

When it first occurred, I just guessed that it would need a few hours to fix. “No, big deal,” I reasoned to myself. I notice just how critical this has gone. Tarballs are shining up on the beach, Tarballs! The whole state appears like a scene from a James Cameron Film. One of the rescuers revealed how muddy the water was. It looked a like an Oil Pump took a leak in the ocean. As I sat, flabbergasted, two dolphins came by swimming in the framework. It made my complete heart sink. What if we’ve permanently taken our obsession with oil to such a level, that we wipe out us. A deadly irony, wouldn’t you agree? Who knows perhaps sometimes the movie “Jaws,” will be viewed by a younger generation like “Jurassic Park,” a journey back in time to a fictitious place, where the water was still blue and had some extinct animal called a fish in it.

Have you ever wondered if the ocean as a complex is endangered? With all of the pollution and the extreme change in the climate, many creatures of the sea like whales, fish, dolphins, seals and sea birds can no longer be found. Any animal that lives in the sea is facing many difficulties due to the condition of ocean waters. Nowadays it is difficult to see many of the sea creatures of the past because of their depleted numbers. The ocean is endangered and because of that, nearly all sea creatures are also endangered.

A Tragic oil spill incidence, such as the Gulf oil spill is one of the worst contributors to our natural resources’ destruction. Amongst the many reasons, this one results in extensive fatality among aquatic animals that will moreover affect humans.

What is an oil spill?

It is a release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment due to human activity and is a form of pollution. This term often refers to marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal of waters. The types of oils being released are crude oil from tankers, offshore platforms, drilling rigs and wells, as well as spills of refined petroleum products like gasoline and diesel as well as their by-products which includes heavier fuels used by large ships such as bunker fuel. The problem with it is that it may take months or even years to clean them. During war among countries, the devastation that an opposing country can do to another is dumping oil into the enemy’s oceans. Some of the oil spills may also be caused by terrorist trying to get the country’s attention.

As a solution to this problem, one effective way to contain it is with the use of oil containment booms to prevent oil from spreading and will enable easy skimming of oil with the help of boats.

Here are the four key steps for oil spill clean-up and damage control: Prevention, containment, the actual clean-up, and preparedness.

1) Prevention

While prevention seems not to agree, it is an important part. Oil spills or leaks can occur on a small scale, but if you have built a back-up system of containment, the leaking oil won’t have a possibility to escape into the environment. This means that the problem can be resolved before it ever becomes a problem.

How can you accomplish this deed? By creating extra layers of containment around the primary container. On a small scale, this means storing oil drums on spill pallets that catch any leaking or dripping oil.

2) Containment

Next, there’s containment for the event that the oil has actually flown and is leaking or flowing into the environment, for example into the ocean or another body of water.

Now, proper containment is absolutely critical. What this signifies is that a barrier is set up that will keep the oil in place and prevent it from escaping and spreading.

Such containment is critical for two reasons: It will reduce damage, and it will also make clean-up much easier.

Spill berms are great for use on land, and spill booms are ideal for use on the water. Booms come in absorbent and non-absorbent types. You may want both. The non-absorbent ones are especially good for keeping the oil slick restrained.

3) Clean-up

Finally, the oil needs to be cleaned up. This means that it will be incorporated in some way and removed. There is a wide range of tools possible to clean up oil spills, including a variety of absorbents. One of the key tools for an oil spill cleanup in a large body of water will be oil absorbent booms. They can swallow an impressive amount of water while repelling water. Once they’re full, they can be pulled out and be replaced with fresh booms — until all the oil is absorbed.

4) Preparedness

There is a fourth key to oil spill cleanup and damage control: Be ready. In order to depreciate damage to the environment, the ability to react as fast as possible is crucial. This suggests that if you’re dealing with oil and there’s even the remotest chance of a leak or spill, having the necessary equipment and supplies for cleanup close at hand is a must. This is a major lesson received from the Gulf oil spill.

Bacteria that consume oil discovered in the deep sea

Deep inside the Western Pacific Ocean, there is a trench called  Mariana Trench which is located approximately 200 miles east of the Mariana Islands and that is almost 36,000 feet underneath sea level. If Mount Everest was lowered into the trench, its peak would still be one mile beneath the ocean’s surface. A team of researchers from the United Kingdom, Russia, and China found that the Trench is also home to an enormous population of bacteria that can eat the hydrocarbon compounds found in the oil. These species of microorganisms typically eat compounds related to those in oil and then use it for fuel.

To digest hydrocarbons, the bacteria rely on a suite of unique enzymes. And, these bacteria are not exclusive to the deep sea – similar bacteria occur throughout the world’s oceans. They have even been successfully used to help clean up major oil spills, including the Exxon-Valdez Spill in the Gulf of Alaska in 1989 and the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. However, it is important to note that microbes alone cannot fully remove oil from the marine environment.