Disaster in the Gulf - British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico: Impacts on Wildlife, Fisheries, Cleanup Efforts, Investigation (Ringbound Book and DVD-ROM)

This ringbound book and DVD-ROM set provides an encyclopedic collection of up-to-date documents, images, and videos about every aspect of the Deepwater Horizon - BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, from the initial explosion to the containment and cleanup effort, federal government and industry response, and investigation - along with guides to oil spill cleanup and environmental impacts. On April 20, 2010, while working on an exploratory well approximately 50 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana, the semi-submersible drilling rig Deepwater Horizon experienced an explosion and fire, killing eleven workers. The damaged platform capsized and sank on April 22, 2010. The rig is owned by Transocean and under contract to British Petroleum (BP). Oil threatens natural habitats, wildlife, and fishing along the Gulf coast. The ringbound book provides overviews of the accident and the spill, handling spills of national significance, NOAA Office of Response and Restoration coverage, Training Marine Oil Spill Response Workers under OSHA's Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standards, emergency action on commercial and recreational fishing closures in the Gulf of Mexico, how to file for claims, fish stocks in the Gulf, impact of crude oil on seafood, marine mammals and sea turtles, shorelines and coastal habitats, using booms, tarballs, effects of oil on wildlife and habitat, dispersant monitoring and assessment, national contingency plan, oil spill response management, and rescuing and cleaning birds. DVD-ROM: This exceptional four gigabyte collection includes over 56,000 pages reproduced in over 50 Adobe Acrobat PDF files, 51 video files in mov and wmv formats, and nearly 350 image files in JPG format. Contents include material from the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command operation, the U.S. Coast Guard (with videos of the explosion and rig fire, controlled burn attempts, rescue operations, ROV subsea operations, Top Hat operations), NOAA Office of Response and Restoration, NOAA National Ocean Service, NOAA Fisheries Service, U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the FWS National Contingency Plan, National Park Service, Minerals Management Service (MMS), EPA, NASA, CDC, White House (oil supplemental package, legislative package, establishment of a national commission), and Congressional hearings with industry and scientific testimony. In addition to the specific coverage of the Deepwater Horizon incident and response, there is coverage of all associated oil spill and offshore drilling issues: planning and exercises for Spills of National Significance; effects on habitats, shorelines, coastlines, wildlife, fish and fisheries, birds, turtles; dispersants, booms, and other control methods; financial liability issues; history of the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska; and more. NOAA documents and guides include: Oil and Sea Turtles, NOAA Oil Spill Case Histories, Oil Spills in Mangroves, Oil Spills in Coral Reefs, Shoreline Assessment Job Aid, Manual, Tarballs, Marine Life Guide, Introduction to ESI Maps, Field Guide to Trajectory Maps, Dispersant Application Observer Job Aid, Acronyms and Definitions. EPA documents and guides include: Chemical Shoreline Agents for Oil Spills, Bioremediation of Oil Contaminated Salt Marshes, Oil Spill Training Program Document and Manual, Oil Pollution Act, Review on the Use of Commercial Bioremediation Agents, Types of Crude Oil, Understanding Bioremediation, Understanding Oil Spills and Oil Spill Response, Use of Chemical Dispersants for Marine Oil Spills, Alaska Oil Spill Bioremediation.