Oil Spill is the release of a liquid called Petrolium Hydrocarbon (Jihyun Current Event)

Reasons for Oild Spill
- People making careless mistakes
-Equipment failure
-Natural disaster such as hurricane or tornado

Effect on marine animals
-Seabirds are strongly affected by oild spills
-They are covered in oil which leads to heavy oil weights down the bird feathers
-Oil is poisonous and can die

Killer Whales
-Strongly affected group of animal
-Oils spill led to endangering of killer whales
-Effects in two ways
-Plugs up the blowholes of killer whales
-The foods the whales such as fishes are covered with oil can affect the whales too

Effect on plants
-Oil forms a very thick layer on the surface of the water, which prevents light and gaseous exchange
-Plantts will not be able to do photosynthesis
-Marine animals will find that supply of oxygen will slowly dimish

How are oil spills cleaned?
-Use dispersants to break down the oil
-A liquid or gas used to disperse small particles in a medium
-Add biological agents to the spills
-Let the oil break down naturally

Rayong Oil Spill (2013)

-Occured in July 27th, 2013 in the Gulf of Thailand off the coast of Koh Samet and Map Ta Phut
-Pipeline owned by PTTGC plc , Thai state company oil busted

Effect
-Affected areas of tourism
-Rayong and nearby resort island of Koh Samet were impacted by the spillage
-Marine aniamls were harmed