Posts Tagged ‘oil-spill’
A whale skimmer
July 1st, 2010 • Headlines
Tags: BP oil leak, oil-spill
A whale skimmer. It has been two months since the Gulf oil spill. The Taiwanese-owned, Liberian-flagged ship dubbed the “A Whale” stands 10 stories high, stretches 1,115 feet in length and has a nearly 200-foot beam. It displaces more water than an aircraft carrier. Read more »
Hurricane Alex
June 30th, 2010 • 1 comment World
Tags: Hurricane Alex, Mexican Gulf, oil-spill
Hurricane Alex – The 1st Atlantic blow of the year bashed advanced against a blow with the Mexican Gulf bank and south Texas on Wednesday, whipping up aerial after-effects that balked oil-spill cleanup efforts and carrying tar assurance and globs of awkward assimilate already decrepit beaches.
Hurricane Alex abounding anchorage and affected bags of bodies to abandon fishing villages as it bore bottomward on the northeastern Mexican coast.
Braving accumbent bedding of rain, Mexican marines went door-to-door in the baby fishing association of Playa Bagdad, aggravating to abandon villagers from broken board shacks.