There was recently a oil spill on an off shore oil rig that has made headlines recently. There has been a huge effort to stop the oil from reaching the shore and hurting the local ecosystem.
Some of the ways they have use to stop oil are burning it, using floating dams to stop the oil, and others. The floating dams, or booms, suck up the oil off the surface of the ocean but there is a problem with this method, there are not enough booms. Burning presents obvious environmental problems but is effective in getting rid of the slick. underwater domes that catch the oil coming from the pipes then bring the oil to waiting ships work well but they take time to construct and they have never been used as deep at needed for this spill. Detergents could be dispersed into the water but there might be too much oil for this too work. All of this could have been prevented with a blowoff-preventer, this rig had one but it malfunctioned.
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