People here in south Louisiana who own the lodging that sport fishermen would have been occupying right now are finding unexpectedly heavy demand from cleanup companies, which need thousands of beds for workers headed this way to help clean up the mess. Directed by Peter Berg (Lone Survivor), this story honors the brave men and women whose heroism would save many on board, and change everyones lives forever. MakeMKV is a format converter, otherwise called 'transcoder'. However, earlier estimates predicted landfall two days ago.īut it’s a rare cloud that doesn’t have a silver lining for somebody. On April 20th, 2010, one of the worlds largest man-made disasters occurred on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.

At the time of this writing some were predicting the edge of the spill might touch the northern coastline in the next two or three days. Resort communities like Ocean Springs, Gulfport, Biloxi, Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and Pensacola could be facing oil-polluted shorelines that would devastate the tourism that is so vital to their economies. On 20 April 2010, an explosion occurred on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, operated by BP. The huge slick has been moving slowly north, threatening the beaches of Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida panhandle. The oil will likely damage more than just wetlands and wildlife. /rebates/&252fdeepwater-horizon-makemkv. Ten years after this environmental disaster, scientists studying the spill better understand the complex processes that affect how oil transforms and degrades in the water and just how resilient ecosystems can be to such a disturbance.

He fears an entire generation of hundreds of species will be lost. The Deepwater Horizon blowout caused gas and oil to spill into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days. To transport audiences onto a doomed oil rig, the makers of Deepwater Horizon, opening Sept. Schweiger said the Deepwater Horizon spill couldn’t have come at a worse time, because spring is when most species nest and reproduce. BP’s lighter oil is easier to handle, but it also contains more volatile compounds that can hurt plants and animals. It was also a lot colder in Alaska, making the heavy oil even more viscous and that much more difficult to remove. The Exxon Valdez was loaded with a much heavier crude oil than the so-called “sweet, light crude” gushing into the Gulf. Construction started in December 1998, the keel was laid on 21 March 2000, 6 and the rig was delivered on 23 February 2001, 6 after the acquisition of R&B Falcon by Transocean. Schweiger pointed out that the tanker held a finite amount of oil, while the “petrogeyser” a mile down on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico is still pouring thousands of barrels of crude oil into the water. Deepwater Horizon was built for R&B Falcon (which later became part of Transocean) by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan, South Korea. history,” dwarfing the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska in 1989.

The president of the National Wildlife Federation, Larry Schweiger, told us it has the potential to be the “worst ecological disaster in U.S. So how bad will the Deepwater Horizon oil spill turn out to be? A sign at an animal medical center in Bienville, Miss., reads “Pray for our Gulf” as people continue to monitor the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A few words about MKV First off, many of you know that MKV represents Matroska Video.

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