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Oil Pollution

Oil Pollution. By: Sarah Flottman and Sydney Kelley. Causes of Oil Pollution. Oil spills happen when people make mistakes or are careless and cause an oil tanker to leak oil into the ocean. There are a few more ways an oil spill can occur. Equipment breaking down

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Oil Pollution

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  1. Oil Pollution By: Sarah Flottman and Sydney Kelley

  2. Causes of Oil Pollution Oil spills happen when people make mistakes or are careless and cause an oil tanker to leak oil into the ocean. There are a few more ways an oil spill can occur. • Equipment breaking down If the equipment breaks down, the tanker may get stuck on shallow land. When they start to drive the tanker again, they can put a hole in the tanker causing it to leak oil. • Terrorists Will dump oil into a country’s ocean. Many terrorists will do this because they are trying to get the country’s attention, or they are trying to make a point to a country.

  3. Other Causes… • Illegal dumpers People that will dump crude oil into the oceans because they do not want to spend money on decomposing their waste oil. Because they won’t spend money on breaking up the oil (decomposing it) they will dump oil into the oceans, which is illegal. • Natural disasters (like hurricanes) may cause an oil spill, too. If a hurricane was a couple of miles away, the winds from the hurricane could cause the oil tanker to flip over, pouring oil out.

  4. Effects on Humans More than 300 people had come forward with spill-related symptoms in the few months after a rig exploded. Some of the common complaints • chest pain • coughing • dizziness • headaches • respiratory distress • vomiting These symptoms are typical of acute exposure to hydrocarbons or hydrogen sulfide," wrote the piece’s authors, Gina Solomon and Sarah Janssen, both of the Department of Medicine at the University of California-San Francisco and National Resources Defense Council. "But it is difficult to clinically distinguish toxic symptoms from other common illnesses," they explained.  The damage could, however, run deeper than skin irritation and breathing difficulties. A study of clean-up workers from the 2002 Prestige Oil Tanker spill off the coasts of France and Spain found increased levels of DNA damage. The greatest damage, the researchers found, was found in workers who had not worn protective masks, though elevated levels of damage seemed to dissipate over time.

  5. Effect on Environment Here are some of the most notable environmental damages typically caused by oil spills: • Damage Beaches, Marshlands and Fragile Marine Ecosystems • Kill Marine Mammals • Kill Fish • Destroy Wildlife Habitat and Breeding Grounds

  6. How to Clean up an Oil Spill • Workers can place a boom around the tanker that is spilling oil. Booms collect the oil off the water. A boom may be placed somewhere before an oil spill. They can be placed around an entrance to the ocean, like a stream. They also can be placed around a habitat with many animals living there. These booms will absorb any oil that flows around it. • The workers can also use skimmers. Skimmers are boats that can remove the oil off the water using sorbents. Sorbents are sponges that can collect the oil. • They also can burn freshly spilled oil with fireproof booms to contain the oil. They might not decide to burn the oil because this method causes air pollution.

  7. How to Clean up an Oil Spill • There are just a few ways to clean the oil off the beaches. Workers can use high or low pressure hoses to spray the oil that is on the beaches. Vacuum trucks may be driven on the beaches to vacuum up the oil. They can also simply use shovels or road equipment to collect all the oil off the beaches. • The method they use to clean the beaches or oceans depends on many things. They have to look at the weather, the type and amount of oil spilled, if people live in that area, what types of animals live in that area, and many more things. In some situations, they may not react to a spill. It may not be helpful or it would just cause even more damage to that habitat.

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