Ship Fire Halts Oil Containment Effort

13 Jul, 2010 Chelsea Latimer 0
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Today, lightning stuck the BP ship, “Discover Enterprise,” which was capturing oil out in the Gulf of Mexico. This of course ignited a fire on the ship, setting back the company’s efforts for containment. The fire ignited in a vent pipe apart of a tank, which the oil was stored in on the ship. Luckily the fire was put out abruptly and none of the engineers on board were injured.

The ship itself sucks up about 630,000 gallons of oil per day out of the gulf. Though this is a lot of oil, it’s clearly not even close to help saving the lives of all of the birds and sea life that have been killed or sickened by this mess. There are still SO many animals suffering. Plus, this has already been around a two-month effort to clean this oil up! How much longer do they possibly need? They need more ships covering more space to efficiently clear the waters. I just can’t believe how much bad luck could this company have! Nothing seems to be falling in the right place for them right now.

BP Spokesman Robert Wine stated, “At the moment, there’s no capture, no containment going on, but we’ll start up the Enterprise when it’s safe to do so.” They hope to resume oil containment from the well this afternoon. Before use, BP will use robotic submarines to look over their entire containment system to survey possible damage.

Those submarines better work quickly! I can’t stand to see those pictures of dead birds and turtles drenched in oil, every single time I log onto the internet… Make it stop!

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