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1979
By: Fahad & Alyssa
A massive oil spill happened in 1979.
A deep water oil drilling platform caught on fire.
When the platform caught fire the emergency blow out presenter failed and released oil for the next nine months.
Over the course of the next nine months the oil rig released 3 million barrels of oil (126000000 gal).
In 1859 humans started drilling oil in a northwestern Pennsylvania creek in 1859.
Over time oil drilling moved from only land to over seas locations.
The production of oil led to transportation and the transportation leads to colliding and releasing oil. Oil spills happen all around the world, but large spills have been reduced since the 1970s
First oil spill
The first oil spill happened in 1967 when two enormously important oil tankers collided in european waters releasing 119000 metric tons of crude oil.
This oil spill was the first oil spill in mankind history.
The worlds largest oil spill was the Deep Horizon oil spill happened.
The oil rig exploded and killed 11 people.
Over the next 87 days the oil rig released 4.4 million barrels of crude oil.
we became aware of the Ixtoc oil on June third 1979.
The oil rig didn't stop releasing oil until 3/23/1980.
The Ixtoc oil spill happened in the gulf of Mexico
Oil spills is a very huge problem because crude oil is a very toxic begin able to poison an animals from internal and external routes of exposure. Birds and mammals die often because oil fouls the feathers so the feathers can't insulate anymore and killing them.
The Ixtoc oil spill was a very difficult oil spill to pick up because the rig released oil for 9 months so it was very difficult to pick up.
The oil made its way to the shoreline and getting in to mangroves.
A mangrove near the oil spill looks healthy on the out side but dead inside. Researcher went to the island and found tar and still liquid form of oil 40 years ago.
Oil spills are a very big problem on ecosystems because the oil spilled can poison the whole ecosystem.
Champoton's economy
In 1970 before the Ixtoc oil spill happened a small fishing town called "Champoton". Champoton's main economy was fishing, when the oil spill happened the oil either scared away all the fish and crustaceans or killed all of them when this happened went into a state of depression from the lack of jobs.
After the oil spill was cleaned up all of these people moved into the town and changing it from a small fishing town to a large and busy town.
Still after about 40 years the main shrimp or fish still haven't moved back to their old location.
Since the 1970s the Kemp Ridley sea turtles
the Kemp Ridley sea turtles have been one of the most rare turtles in the world.
From the Ixtoc oil spill the turtles lost lots of their population from suffocating to death from the oil spill
In recent years(2000s) the Kemp Ridley sea turtles had a steady growth in population until the horizon oil spill in 2010 when all the oil killed the turtles this oil spill had the same affect as the Ixtoc oil spill in 1979.
Right now the Kemp Ridley sea turtles condition is critically endangered.
For right now the coast guard and the Environmental Agency are the two programs that are cleaning up oil spills in America's territory. For the methods of cleaning up the oil spills there isn't really any good solutions to the problem. The solutions used right now is skimming the water with micro nets or putting straw,ash,etc to soak up the oil from the water old solutions were burning the oil of the water but killing everything the the process.
Oil spills are humans faults because we are the ones that are drilling into the earth to find oil and resources and with the process of doing that we are releasing toxic materials into the ecosystems.
Of humans switching from oils/nature gasses to renewable energy if we switch to renewable energy there will be no more oil spills/acid rain/or smog in atmosphere.
Studies of biomarkers have uncovered irreparable harm to humans exposed to oil and gas from spills. These effects can be grouped into respiratory damage, liver damage, decreased immunity, increased cancer risk, reproductive damage and higher levels of some toxics (hydrocarbons and heavy metals).
Ixtoc (ISH-tok) 1 was an exploratory oil well being drilled in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico by Mexico's government-owned oil company Pemex.
Pemex said "half of the released oil burned when it reached the surface, a third of it evaporated, and the rest was contained or dispersed."
But many seized to believe
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