Oill Spill in Gulf

Many animals and plants were hurt and still are getting hurt and affected because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It is a spill like no other, taking place a mile or so deep under water, in layers of more shallow water and also on the surface. It is said that there more than 50,000 gallons of oil being spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. Scientitsts are worried about how far it will spread and go. Many people are doing whatever they can to stop this spill before it hurts any more animals and plants around the ocean. Thursday crews had sprayed 798,000 gallons of chemicals to dissolve the oil at the surface and injected another 346,000 gallons under water to break it up near the seafloor. In 142 controlled fires, crews also burned an estimated 3.62 million gallons of oil on open water. About one-third of the Gulf is only left good enough to fish. If the oil spill continues that one third will also be closed down.