https://padlet.com/kai_mandolesi525/thebpoilspill5 by Kai Mandolesi en-us 2017-06-16 15:58:15 UTC 2026-02-15 14:21:03 UTC hello@padlet.com kai_mandolesi525 https://padlet.com/kai_mandolesi525/thebpoilspill5/wish/176681208 On the rig, approximately 4.5 million barrels of oil spilled into the waters of the gulf of mexico]]> 2017-06-16 16:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kai_mandolesi525/thebpoilspill5/wish/176681208 kai_mandolesi525 https://padlet.com/kai_mandolesi525/thebpoilspill5/wish/176886288 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 mid-water 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. As much as 20 percent of the spilled oil may have ended up on top of and in the seafloor, damaging deep sea corals and potentially damaging other ecosystems that are unseen at the surface.]]> 2017-06-19 16:47:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kai_mandolesi525/thebpoilspill5/wish/176886288 kai_mandolesi525 https://padlet.com/kai_mandolesi525/thebpoilspill5/wish/176887375 The Gulf oil spill is recognised 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.]]> 2017-06-19 16:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kai_mandolesi525/thebpoilspill5/wish/176887375