On May 7, 2010, John Wathen and pilot Tom Hutchins flew out over the Gulf of Mexico and videoed the environmental effects of BP’s Deepwater Horizon explosion. From the video:
“At nine miles out, we began to smell the oil. At eleven miles out we saw a visable sheen on top of the water. Heavy streaking was evident at about mile fifteen. Mile twenty-six we began to see solid oil on top of the water with a heavy sheen and numerous streaks at mile thirty-four. Mile eighty-seven, ground zero…nothing but a red mass of floating goo…[so] many boats on the horizon….nobody seemed to be able to do anything about it…I find myself using the word “hopeless”…..There’s no way to prevent this from hitting our shorelines….[preventative] Safety measures were not in place….An environmental disaster…a social disaster, as well. Fishermen out of work; oyster shuckers, no work; people working the docks–all up and down the coast people are cancelling reservations, fishing boats are not going out….this event…will be felt for decades. This cannot happen again. The Gulf appears to be bleeding….Will the Gulf ever heal? As far as you can see on the horizon…mats of this reddish-pink sheen…a perfect line of it leading to the shoreline….On May the 8th they found tar balls.”
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