Yes, there is a spill. Yes, wildlife and people have been negatively effected. I urge you all to pray for the residents, the wildlife, and the Ocean. This is the worst spill in US history. The coast will take a beating. The ocean...well that is a different story.
But I want you to think about something the news, the politicians, and the knee-jerk public has not thought of.
Oil is a natural resource. It is not man-made. God and the earth made it. Nothing man can do will keep the earth and the ocean from healing itself in time.
Think Chernobyl (nuclear spill). Think Valdease (the largest USA oil disaster). Think Husain and Iraq (the largest spill ever). Think about how man has always screwed up nature. But nature heals itself in time.
All of the events above were thought to be the end of nature in those regions.
Man VS. Nature: NATURE ALWAYS WINS...period.
These regions that were thought to be dead regenerated themselves without the help of man. Wildlife came back, fishermen came back. Nature has made all of these regions epic reserves of natural resources and wildlife once again.
Have you fished Valdease in the past decade? Have you seen pictures of the fishing in Iraq? I didn't think so.
Wait on nature. It will inevitably beat the human condition of mistake and the inperfection of public policy and lack of natural resource management we are now facing.
COUNT ON NATURE TO HEAL THIS HORRIBLE EVENT.
Don't forget: Florida still has a ton of clean beaches today on the Gulf. Please support those areas with tourism and trade. The Texas Coast has not been effected at all. Keep boating, fishing, surfing, and sunning on the beach...they are our greatest natural resource.
Let me give you some math: There are upwards of 660 Quadrillion gallons of water in the Gulf of Mexico. 660Quadrillion
If the spill lasts 120 days at 42 gallons a barrel of oil and 108 million released...divide 660 Quadrillion by 108 million gallons and you get one gallon of oil for every 6.6 billion gallons of water. That is the equivelant of four drops of oil in a full bathtub...you can drink that water and will not be harmed. The Ocean will win. The coast will however lose...
The largest spill to date that is not being talked about is the IXTOC 1 spill in 1979 in Mexico. The P-Mex company paid noone claiming sovernty. there were 140 million gallons of oil spilled and it covered a shoreline of about the equivalent of 1/2 of the Texas area. It took them 10 months to stop the leak. No cause found. It is all back to normal and has been since the early 90's. Count on the ocean to clean the world.
The Kuwait oil spill was 10x the oil of the current guld spill and deposited in an area 1/6th the size of the Gulf Coast here (persian gulf). 1/2 evaporated, 1 million barrels were recovered, and 1/2 a million hit the shoreline. It is back to normal now and one of the most vibrant undersea santuaries in the world.
Count on the Ocean to take care of itself...man vs. ocean? Ocean always wins.
Todd Weatherill
Third Coast Yachts
Push away from the dock and find yourself.
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