Light-years may measure greater distances, but fathoms can be unapproachable. Human technology can render people to reach and get information from far away planets but it helps little to know the long-neglected corner—the deep sea. Inky dark, huge pressure and the numerous fictions about monsters in these abysses made most deep sea bottom untapped field. The daunting journey of exploration of these virgin lands also can help to explain why it is so hard to plug the oil spill in Mexican gulf seabed. The biggest challenges are sea waters’ coherent density. If you have no idea about how overwhelming the crushing pressure can be, maybe the following explanations can make you instantly understand the situation. In the wellhead where the spill occurs, the pressure is like a ton’s object putting on a square inch area. All but only some rigid gear can take that pressure and logically be used as cap.
It is also these kinds of difficulties that make the progresses in securing the sea animals are far from satisfactory. People in the USA are getting more and more impatient with BP, the England oil company. The poor animal pictures including sea turtles, majestic brown pelicans, seagulls soaked in crude oil and the scattered dead dolphin bodies in the water make the whole events “heartbreaking” and the most serious oil spill in American’s history. \"They get me. It\'s just inherently sad,\" said Nils Warnock, a wildlife recovery specialist. \"You see this bird totally covered in oil and all you can see are those eyes looking at you blinking. You\'d have to be pretty tough not to be affected by that image.\" Besides these big animals which can be easily spotted, the little animals in the seashore just disappeared. “They will not get their eulogy, they just disappear. It is an unseen tragedy. ”
President Barack Obama vows to punish BP and thousands of sue cases are mounting with the deterioration of the whole system. The oil floating on the surface of water is just a tiny part of the ghastly image. Scientists say it may take many years to recover, or never. Some of the deep water animals like tube worms, strange beasts that live off food chains rooted in the oil and gas, that usually were found in the oil well may encounter a deadly attack. Nobody can evaluate the whole loss of these organisms in these areas until the advances of modern technology.
As the advance and relentlessly desire of natural resources grows, people are now getting their every way to exploit our mother earth but pay little attention to our mutual habitats on this planet—the animals. Mexican oil spill is just one of too many big disasters in recent years. The stinking rivers and mounting garages features most of the developing countries. You can hardly have any pretty hope for the future in front of some deadly lakes or rivers. How to protect our planet and how to protect its diversity is not just a dinner-table talk, more concrete efforts should be carried out right now. Or else we are going to see the tragedy by our won but not our offsprings. |
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