Cause Of Marine Pollution

. The incident also affect 1100 miles of coastline in Alaska. And within six hours of the spill, 10.6 billions of gallons of crude oil have been spilled into the ocean. The specific damage of these pollutants to animals in the ocean is mentioned in the article “Who is responsible for marine debris? The international politics of cleaning our oceans”. Plastic debris and trash caused malnutritions in sea animals, since the consumption of waste in the ocean make them feels like they are full and no longer need to in. While in fact, the plastic and trash they consumed have no nutritious values to keep the sea animals healthy. Plastic debris can also caused damage to internal organs of these animals, causing internal bleeding that can lead to a premature

Humanity also received it full harmful effect. The aspect of human society that are affected by pollution of water in the ocean are economic and health. And let’s talk about human health effect throughout the spread of water contamination and pollution since health is vital factor of a human life. From the article “Water pollution and human health”, there are a lot of different diseases that caused by dirty and contaminated water. Like the bacteria called Campylobacter Jejuni, this bacteria is found mostly in untreated fecal water source and it also the cause of 4% to 15% of the world diarrhea cases. Or the bacteria Vibrio Cholerae, the name sounds familiar because that were the named of the disease came from. This bacteria is the main causes of cholera, a disease that caused an upset stomach and also diarrhea by damage and disrupt the small intestine of the human body. While other disease includes: Hepatitis, a disease that can lead to dead in the long term, but can be treated easily with vaccine. Symptom of the disease are loss of appetite and the feeling of fatigue (Haseena, “Water pollution and human health”, Allied Academies). And in the article “The quest for clean water”, Joseph Orlins and Anne Wehrly mentioned the “Blue Baby Syndrome”, cause by the excessive nitrate in water. And chemical like DDT, dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls and heavy metal like lead and mercury, they can cause

The world as a whole, do realized that ocean pollution is a major environmental problem that they need to fixed before its effects are on a more serious scale. And many rules and regulation have been set down to reduced and even stop the ongoing problem with pollution. Like the proposal made by the European Union in 2002, according to the article “Oil in the sea” by Nancy Rabalais. The proposal put up that any oil tanker that carried heavy-grade oil, to includes bitumen, crude oil tar and waste oil; must be have more than one hull. This regulation was set down after the oil spill of Erika, an oil tanker that sunk in 1999. Basically, if an oil tanker have a double hull. All of the oil will be carried in the inside hull and remained intact if there was a collision, while the outside hull would take the impact of the collision (Rabalais, “Oil in the ocean”,eLibrary). Another example of regulation have been set up by the two major economic power in the world, United States and United Kingdom. They have set regulation for any ship that traveled into their water to only have 1000 part-per-minute of sulfur content. Which required ship that traveled into their water to use cleaner, and more high quality marine fuel (Zheng, “Three step to a green shipping industry”,eLibrary). Not to mention all the new invention that comes from the people that is being affected by ocean