Throughout its existence, man has repeatedly had a negative impact on the environment.With the development of modern technology, environmental disasters began to get larger form.A vivid confirmation of this is the Gulf of Mexico.The crash, which occurred there in the spring of 2010 has caused irreparable damage to nature.As a result, polluted water, which led to the death of a huge number of marine life and reduce their population.
cause of the accident was an accident on an oil platform Deepwater Horizon, which occurred due to the lack of professionalism of the workers and the owners of oil and gas company negligence.As a result of improper actions, an explosion and fire that resulted in the death of 13 people on the platform and took part in the accident.Within 35 hours the fire was extinguished fire ships, but completely block the oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico, was only five months.
According to some experts, for 152 days, during which the oil is poured out of the well, the water got about 5 million. Barrels of fuel.During this time it is contaminated area of 75 000 square kilometers.Aftermath of the accident involved US military personnel and volunteers from around the world gathered in the Gulf of Mexico.Oil collected both manually and by special courts.Together we managed to get out of the water about 810 thousand barrels of fuel.
The hardest thing was to stop the oil leak, mounted plugs did not help.As well poured cement pumped drilling fluid, but a complete seal has been achieved only on September 19 while the accident occurred on April 20.Gulf of Mexico during this period became the most polluted places on the planet.It has been found dead about 6000 birds, 600 sea turtles, 100 dolphins, many other mammals and fish.
Enormous damage was done to coral reefs, which can not grow in polluted water.Mortality of bottlenose dolphins has increased by almost 50 times, and it's not all the consequences of the accident on an oil platform.Fisheries also suffered considerable damage, as the Gulf of Mexico was one-third closed to fishing.Oil reached even to the waters of the coastal nature reserves, which were very important for migratory birds and other animals.
It's been three years since the disaster, the Gulf of Mexico slowly recovering from the damage.American oceanographers are closely watching the behavior of marine life as well as coral.Recently began to multiply and grow in their normal rhythm, indicating that the purified water.But there were, and the temperature rise of water in this place, which may adversely affect many marine inhabitants.
Some researchers have suggested that the effects of the disaster will affect the Gulf Stream, which affects the climate.Indeed, recent winters in Europe, particularly frost, and the water in the flow decreased by 10 degrees.But to prove that weather anomalies are connected with the oil accident, scientists have not yet succeeded.
