Oil Spill PICTURES: Effects Of Gulf Oil Spill In Photos

The effects of the oil spill last week are becoming more and more apparent and oil spill pictures provide a dramatic look at the devastation.

The oil spill was caused by an explosion at an offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The leak is currently releasing 5,000 barrels of oil per day, and efforts to manage the spill with controlled burning, dispersal and plugging the leak have been unsuccessful.

This oil spill is on track to become the worst oil spill in history, surpassing the damage done by the Exxon Valdez tanker that spilled 11 million gallons of oil into the ecologically sensitive Prince William Sound in 1989.

Here are a series of oil spill pictures, depicting the scene in the Gulf of Mexico and the serious threats being posed to humans, the environment, and wildlife in the region.

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[CarHelp]

01:19 PM on 06/10/2010

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[Doug Onesko]

02:18 PM on 05/27/2010

Oil Shmoil, we need the gasoline!!!

[TantrisDerNarr]

07:21 AM on 05/19/2010

The caption of picture #77 says it all: "'We're a little anxious. They're gonna try everything they can. If it don't work, they'll try something else,' Demi Shaffer, captain of the Joe Griffin, told the AP."

Ahem... you mean, when they try everything they can, and it don't work, then they'll try something else???

What else is left after you try everything you can try? Surely, only the things you cannot try. But which they'll try anyway. Helloooo... Anyone at home, in there?

Sorry, vernbvb, but not even Allmighty can save us from our own willful abandon of all reason.

When we collectively elect to be sheep and either actively believe or fail to expunge plain blathering nonsense (like Limbaugh's accusation of the Sierra Club for the oil spill) and (not even) thinly veiled greed (examples about, just look around yourselves), we have only ourselves to blame.

[vernbvb]

02:16 PM on 05/18/2010

None of us and none of the scientists and other experts can predict what the ultimate effects of this oil catastrophe will be! We should be worried... we should be VERY worried! The oil is already having a detrimental effect on sea life. What will the effects be on humans? On the coastal regions? On tourism? On the economy? Brothers and sisters, we should remain prayerful about this catastrophe!

[JerryMerry]

05:32 PM on 05/03/2010

I wonder if these men are illegal immigrants? If so they should not be working in America.