Oil Spills

We have just got news today that an oil tanker, spilled tons of gallons of oil into our waters. We were told not to have anyone go into the water. All of these problems around us are affecting us so badly, and the unfortunate thing is, it's not us doing it! It's the humans. I just pray and pray that a miracle will happen. We have gotten the warning in the news about an oil spill in this area but were told not to go into the water today. A giant carrier holding tons and tons of oil that was being shipped from Alaska to the east coast, spilled right in our area where we live and swim for food. The news said that more than 500,000 tons of oil is expected to fully enter the ocean. This is so much that it will definitely affect a lot of living organisms. This is more bad news to our fish. We already have a huge loss of fish, due to fisherman, and now added to that, a huge oil tanker spilled thousands of tons of oil. This will decrease the population of fish by a major amount. The fish will not be able to survive in oily, polluted water, nor can their gills handle it. With all the penguins, seals, polar bears, birds in the land where we live, this will be a huge problem for food source. There will be such a reduced supply of food for our family nor any other mammal that lives around here. After hearing this, I started to break down and panic, I just could not believe this sad situation would happen to all us of in our community.