Oil Spill Animal
Bottlenose dolphin with oil adhered to the head July 2010. Here are some ways an oil spill can negatively impact marine life including seabirds pinnipeds and sea turtles. Why We Pretend To Clean Up Oil Spills Science Smithsonian Magazine The oil spill contaminated prime marine mammal habitat in the estuarine nearshore and offshore waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Oil spill animal . Photo taken under research permit. However wildlife is difficult to find and catch oil spills can happen over wide areas and some animals like whales are too big to recover. Deepwater Horizon oil contaminated every type of habitat that northern Gulf of Mexico marine mammals occupy. Over the course of 87 days the damaged Macondo wellhead a part of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig located around 5000 feet beneath the oceans surface leaked an estimated 319 million barrels over 130 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexicomaking the spill the largest accidental ocean spill in history. Oil sp