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The Gulf Appears To Be Bleeding
At nine miles out, they began to smell the oil. At 11 miles, they saw a visible sheen on the water. And at mile 87 off the Alabama coast, they reached ground zero of the disaster — what Wathen described as a “red mass of floating goo” as far as the eye can see.
“The Gulf appears to be bleeding,” he said.
“For the first time in my environmental career, I find myself using the word ‘hopeless,'” Wathen continued. “We can’t stop this. There’s no way to prevent this from hitting our shorelines.”
One Comment on "The Gulf Appears To Be Bleeding"
Wheeldog on Mon, 10th May 2010 3:39 pm
I experienced the same reaction when I saw the oil from the Exxon Valdez fill the 25 mile wide Shelikof Strait between Kodiak Island and the Alaska Peninsula in 1989. It was a humbling experience. The efforts to contain the spill and to mitigate its impact on the environment were completely ineffectual. Trying to control or clean up such a spill is like trying to capture the smoke of a raging forest fire. It defies human abilities.