This past weekend Ian and I, along with some friends, joined a team of people heading to the Taean Oil Spill distaster area.
If you haven't red much about the oil spill, check out the following article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22140662/
When we heard about the opportunity to help, we immediately signed up. We went with Poly, Lindsay (Flem), Grace and Melissa King from WLU and Naomi from Plus Academy. We joined two busloads of people at a subway station and got there early morning. We suited up in white space-like suits, rubber boots, face masks and two pairs of gloves each for the effort on the cold Saturday morning. We weren't surprised to see the several other people working awa
If you haven't red much about the oil spill, check out the following article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22140662/
When we heard about the opportunity to help, we immediately signed up. We went with Poly, Lindsay (Flem), Grace and Melissa King from WLU and Naomi from Plus Academy. We joined two busloads of people at a subway station and got there early morning. We suited up in white space-like suits, rubber boots, face masks and two pairs of gloves each for the effort on the cold Saturday morning. We weren't surprised to see the several other people working awa
y as we headed down to the water, and were pleasantly surprised by the natural beauty of the South Korean coastline.
As the article link states, "The oil started hitting beaches, including Mallipo, on Saturday after a Hong Kong-registered supertanker was slammed the day before by a South Korean-owned barge that came unmoored from its tugboat in rough seas."
Compared to pictures from before, the coastline looked relatively cleaner. However, when we took a closer look at the rocks and pebbles, we could see that there was still a lot of work to be done. We sat in a group and started. We took what looked like dry sheets and dug holes. We poured water into the holes and this raised the oil. We then set the dryer sheet-type material on top of the water and absorbed the oil. It was incedible how quickly the white cloths turned black. When we ran out fo the cloths, we began using old rags. We also scrubed rocks clean.
As the article link states, "The oil started hitting beaches, including Mallipo, on Saturday after a Hong Kong-registered supertanker was slammed the day before by a South Korean-owned barge that came unmoored from its tugboat in rough seas."
Compared to pictures from before, the coastline looked relatively cleaner. However, when we took a closer look at the rocks and pebbles, we could see that there was still a lot of work to be done. We sat in a group and started. We took what looked like dry sheets and dug holes. We poured water into the holes and this raised the oil. We then set the dryer sheet-type material on top of the water and absorbed the oil. It was incedible how quickly the white cloths turned black. When we ran out fo the cloths, we began using old rags. We also scrubed rocks clean.
When the day was finished, we actually felt like we accomplished something. The area in which we were working no longer seemed to have as much oil left. We tried dumping water in holes and absorbing oil, as we had been doing earlier, but there wasn't much left to be absorbed! Of coarse there are other areas affected by the spill and there is still plenty of work to be done, but at least we helped in a small way!
Here is the link to the picture album: http://wluca.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2140316&l=386ca&id=187905622
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