Recently I had the opportunity to go to the Bahamas and go diving. While I was there I was like any other diver and or ocean lover and kept tabs on the news concerning the oil spill. I had heard all the same things most any person on here would hear which were things like 100 boats were out skimming the ocean today or a small amount of oil had washed up in a particular location.
Now my issue is simply like anyone when you are watching a television your perspective is in the numbers they throw at you. When you go to a pier and see 100 large ships and boats it is in fact a very impressive sight. So I began thinking that soon as it stops leaking they will be able to get going very quickly and maybe by the end of this year (Yea I know wishful thinking. VERY wishful)
On our way home we Departed Miami and we were in route to Houston for the first leg of my 2 flights home. I had the luck of the draw to get a window seat. As I recalled the captain had announced we were cruising at an altitude of 35 thousand feet. When I looked out my window I saw the most beautiful sight any diver and ocean lover can ever see and thats that beautiful blue water with the sunlight sparkling ever so lovingly those thousands of feet down. As the flight progressed though I saw what looked like an island outline (Which was actually the oil) and it stretched way beyond the horizon. Occasionaly Id see a little white speck which was ships and their wakes and it then hit me just how massive this whole predicument was and how little 100 of these ships would trully be able to do.
Im not sure what the distances are from where you are to the horizon but Im sure its several miles if not even 50 or more but it was solid milky brown. It was so devistating to see so many hundreds of miles of some of earths most beautiful sights covered in this nasty looking sludge. After 45 minutes it began to turn blue again but only for a short time before we landed in Houston.
Now one thing I will attest is aside from my love of God and family the ocean is one of my most beloved things on earth and it was like I was looking at one of the children who had come down with a deadly virus and was dying yet still clinging to hope we could some how save it. And what hurts the most is this was an act that was so simple to avoid and yet we let the ocean and its billions of aquatic lives down.
I hope and pray somehow the ocean makes a complete recovery and as soon as possible and that we as people learn from these mistakes and see first hand our decisions affect billions of lives we never even met.
Now my issue is simply like anyone when you are watching a television your perspective is in the numbers they throw at you. When you go to a pier and see 100 large ships and boats it is in fact a very impressive sight. So I began thinking that soon as it stops leaking they will be able to get going very quickly and maybe by the end of this year (Yea I know wishful thinking. VERY wishful)
On our way home we Departed Miami and we were in route to Houston for the first leg of my 2 flights home. I had the luck of the draw to get a window seat. As I recalled the captain had announced we were cruising at an altitude of 35 thousand feet. When I looked out my window I saw the most beautiful sight any diver and ocean lover can ever see and thats that beautiful blue water with the sunlight sparkling ever so lovingly those thousands of feet down. As the flight progressed though I saw what looked like an island outline (Which was actually the oil) and it stretched way beyond the horizon. Occasionaly Id see a little white speck which was ships and their wakes and it then hit me just how massive this whole predicument was and how little 100 of these ships would trully be able to do.
Im not sure what the distances are from where you are to the horizon but Im sure its several miles if not even 50 or more but it was solid milky brown. It was so devistating to see so many hundreds of miles of some of earths most beautiful sights covered in this nasty looking sludge. After 45 minutes it began to turn blue again but only for a short time before we landed in Houston.
Now one thing I will attest is aside from my love of God and family the ocean is one of my most beloved things on earth and it was like I was looking at one of the children who had come down with a deadly virus and was dying yet still clinging to hope we could some how save it. And what hurts the most is this was an act that was so simple to avoid and yet we let the ocean and its billions of aquatic lives down.
I hope and pray somehow the ocean makes a complete recovery and as soon as possible and that we as people learn from these mistakes and see first hand our decisions affect billions of lives we never even met.
