A Slippery Mess By : Brandon Wolfe

How it happened There were two reasons why the B.P oil spill happened, here they are. 1. The laziness of the workers were a big reason the spill happened. If they had batter technology they might of been able to stop this 2. The irresponsibleness of the company is another reason why this happened “ BP has a history of blasts and oil spills” says the NYT. “BP continues to lag other oil companies when it comes to safety” says the federal officials and industry analysts.

Stopping the flow The 'Top Hat' This is a containment dome, The "top hat" will be placed over one of the remaining leaks and will channel the leaking oil through a pipe to the surface for collection. If all goes to plan, it should be operational by the end of the week.

Clean up People have made items to help clean up the oil. One of these items are tablet like things that you put in an area and it soaks up the oil in that area this is called the BIOSOK.

Impacts The main effect of the oil spill was towards mainly birds and fish. The birds drown because they stick to the oil and cannot get out of the water, starve because there's no food left for them because the fish have been poisoned by the oil or lose too much body heat because of damage to their plumage by the oil. Fish die of starvation because of loss of food or from being poisoned by the oil.

The A.O.I This relates to the A.O.I because it effected the health of most of the water life in that area. It also effected some people’s heath, because people in that area did not have as much fish to eat. Also the 11 people that died on the platform when the explosion happened.

Fun facts 1. There was a monstrous amount of oil spilled, 2,100,000 gallons! A normal oil tanker holds 9,000 gallons! 2. The oil could lead to a more powerful hurricane because oil collecting at the surface could be raising the temperature of the surrounding water. 3. Gambling websites are now placing bets on what species will be first to become extinct as a result of the oil leaking from BP’s broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. 4. shrimpers say it will be seven years before they can go fishing again.