Can you please explain the history of the Gulf Oil Spill (200 words please). Ple
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Can you please explain the history of the Gulf Oil Spill (200 words please). Please use 1-2 respectable resource (.gov or .edu) and list them at the end of your explanation. I really need help. Thanks. Can you please explain the history of the Gulf Oil Spill (200 words please). Please use 1-2 respectable resource (.gov or .edu) and list them at the end of your explanation. I really need help. Thanks. Can you please explain the history of the Gulf Oil Spill (200 words please). Please use 1-2 respectable resource (.gov or .edu) and list them at the end of your explanation. I really need help. Thanks.Explanation / Answer
The Gulf oil spill is recognized as the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Within days of the April 20, 2010 explosion and sinking of the Deep water Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people, underwater cameras revealed the BP pipe was leaking oil and gas on the ocean floor about 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. By the time the well was capped on July 15, 2010 (87 days later), an estimated 3.19 million barrels of oil had leaked into the Gulf.
The well was located over 5,000 feet beneath the water’s surface in the vast frontier of the deep sea permanently dark environment, marked by constantly cold temperatures just above freezing and extremely high pressures. Scientists divide the ocean into at least three zones, and the deep ocean accounts for about three-quarters of Earth’s total ocean Once the oil left the well, it spread throughout the water column. Some floated to the ocean's surface to form oil slicks, which can spread more quickly by being pushed by winds. Some hovered suspended in the midwater after rising from the wellhead like a chimney and forming several layers of oil, dispersant and seawater mixtures drifting down current; during the spill a 22-mile long oil plume was reported. This plume formed because chemical dispersants, released into the water to break up the oil so it could wash away, allowed the oil to mix with seawater and stay suspended below the surface. And some oil sunk to the seafloor by gluing together falling particles in the water such as bacteria and phytoplankton to form marine snow.
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