Disaster In The Gulf June 15 Updated Photos & Graph's

This is an updated look at the fishing closure in the gulf along with the projected path of the oil.  The link below the picture takes you to the site called GeoPlatform.  It allows you to add or subtract layers as you wish, allows you to zoom in or out, and gives you the legend for the different keys you want displayed and will be updated regularly.

GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse


Some of the newest photos from the gulf.........

Louisiana Coast along Bartataria Bay, June 8th.
These wetlands and marshes will never be able to be cleaned without doing more damage to them. They will die. They will immediately become food and that is the extent of what they can do as they will not come back, they will be gone so there will be no protection to the small animals that once called this place home. Their death will also remove the anchor holding the sand and dirt in place which will now start to erode away.

This is an infographic I posted previously but it shows just how the oil impacts the marshes:

This is what greed does.......

Do the animals stand a chance up against this?..............

Remember all those horrible pictures of the Brown Pelicans sitting on the marshes with their chicks and the nests full of eggs?  Well those mature pelicans are going to have to go obtain food for their young, and to do that they will dive into the water, using their bills to scoop up the fish into their pouch with the water, then they tip the water out keeping only the fish.  When doing this, they will obviously be ingesting the oil in the water. That is what they have to do in order to not only survive but to feed their young as well.

An un-oiled Brown Pelican looks like this........

but this is the image we are coming to see as indicative of what Brown Pelican's look like in the Gulf now.....

The Oil, its everywhere.  There seems to be no escape from it.
And this is how BP is having folks clean it up............., on top of ineffective booms that are laid down and not checked on again, and the endless shoveling along with the apparently ineffective skimmers that are far too few and not making even a small dent in the large scale disaster, now they are using absorbent  pads. The equivalent of paper towels.   You can see how well they are working.

Dolphin leaping up in Bartataria Bay, Florida.  They rise to the surface to breath and are breathing in all those fumes, not to mention the oil in the water that is going to permeate their skin.

One of two one-ton masses of tarball material recovered south of Perdido Pass, Fla., by the crew of the lift boat Sailfish, a Vessel of Opportunity working in the largest oil spill response in U.S. history, on Saturday, June 11, 2010.

This is one of TWO recovered tar balls each weighing one ton.  ONE TON!  That is aprox. 2000 pounds.