Day 109: Flight Over Gulf Oil Spill: Outer Islands of Terrebonne Bay and Barataria Bay, Louisiana

Drew Wheelan of the American Birding Association flies with Southwings Aviation and the Achafalaya and Lower MIssissippi Riverkeepers over the affected coastline from the Deepwater Horizon Oilspill in Louisiana. The flight takes them from Raccoon Island all of the way to the Mississippi River delta. On the outer islands they find oil on nearly every island and marsh, and see little evidence of any clean up efforts. They also encounter long foamy lines attached to oily sheens which might be from the massive amounts of dispersant used in the Gulf in the last 3 months.

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[colmadina]

Great footage. Funny we don't to see such footage on tv. My only annoyance is the background music which becomes increasingly louder.

[Fromplefeet]

@theemperorsclothes yes..I was watching it..my son walks in says. "What you listening to?" He did say the music was annoying...;( Thank you so much for your time and effort in posting this though. BP don't care about us..watch Mississppi Commission Meeting. God Help Us...

[FriuZ1992]

@colmadina  @MichaelErkerMusic

Yup, the music is way too optimistic for the video

[openbreakwhat]

@fastpaced33 That is because there is no oil , don't you watch the news?

[Torn80cj]

The area is so vast, they will never get it cleaned up, nature itself will have to take care of it over a long period of time. This is millions and millions of square miles, not enough resources to clean this huge mess. This is like a person the size of an ant trying to clean an Olympic size swimming pool. The leak has got to be completely stopped before clean up can even be any bit effective.

[Habasch78]

How lucky, the marches and mangrooves are able to absorb this stuff as well as the beaches.

There is no oil? LOL

[Randythewildhorse]

Show this video to the children because they must know the truth! This oil company bp tells lies and the media owned by corporations swear by it. Don't forget the corporate liars in politics who are more concerned about passing seat belt laws than convicting people from bp of wildlife genocide!

Lets vote for a third party instead and show these pathetic lowlifes that money cant but our vote!

[theemperorsclothes]

I also think the music interferes with the points made in the excellent narration. I want to send it to our main list, but I would have to put in a note saying, it's worth concentrating despite the diversion of the music. If you re-posted a version without the music, I think it would get sent around a lot. (You could keep this version too.)