The Gulf of Mexico Oil Slick

I can't believe that oil spill is still going strong in the Gulf of Mexico. The reports keep coming in of how the oil has accelerated in it's pressure ever since the first leak and the amount that has escaped the underground ocean pocket is far greater than originally thought. It's been spilling from it's undersea chamber since March 20th when an offshore oil rig exploded killing eleven rig workers and causing a very difficult spill roughly a kilometer and a half under the surface where the water pressure is roughly twentyfive hundred pounds per square inch and freezing cold waters which make any efforts to cap it next to impossible due to the extremely dangerous conditions. The undrwater spill has been spraying roughly five thousand barrels of oil (800,00 litres) a day into the Gulf for pretty much a month now. The first efforts to cap it failed, they lowered a huge concrete cone down there to funnel the oil flow and capture it's escape but underwater temperatures caused the space in the top part of the cone to freeze making the concrete cone useless and costing BP Oil even more financially and losing them even more face with the public. Oil companies are a necessity to our way of life for better or worse and this could have happened to any company. Risk is the only assurance in such business. I only hope we can get a hold on this issue before there is permament and long term damage to that area in the ocean. Oceanlife there will be affected for decades and as the Gulf of Mexico is a spawning ground for so many different types of fish we're going to see a generation gap in many species for a very long time. There's also going to be a massive "dead zone" of de-oxigenated water in the Gulf which will make plant life in the area die off and to grow back very difficult. Time will tell. Vacations to coastal Florida? Not likely. The only places I can compare this to are old nuclear testing sites which are pretty much environmental disaster zones which require at least fifty years for some of the damage to abate. What will we learn from this? No idea. Beachfront property in Florida might have just got a whole lot cheaper.