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Oil Pollution

Insulating ability

Trend: WIPSEA

Organisation that specialises in digital environmental surveys and deep-learning techniques.

Insufficient sunlight

Trend: Chemical dispersants

Dispersants are sprayed onto spills by specially equipped boats or planes.

Shallow Inshore water

Trend: Bioremediation

the use of bacteria to clean the ocean that has oil spills

Effects on fish eggs

Trend: Booms

Floating barrier designed to contain an oil spill

Prevent oil spills from spreading

Impacts

Delayed hatching time

Decrease in the number of hatched eggs

Consumption of oil by animals

Trend: Engine Bolts

Tighten engine bolts to prevent oil leakage

Birds Cannot Fly

Trend: In-situ Burning

Life Under Water

Overfishing

extinction of marine life

Fossil fuel

It makes the water more acidic

Industrial waste

Increase murkiness

Sewage

promotes algae

contains bacteria

Littering

Waste that break down can release toxic meterials

Break, suffocate and damage habitats in the ocean

Animals that ingest waste can suffer from internal injury, starvation and even death