Marine Oil Spills (Main type focused on)
Oil spill from a tanker/ship in the APTOPIX Australia Oil Spill.
The type of oil spills that we decided to focus on were marine oil spill. The different types of oil spills that can happen in the ocean are from ocean tankers/ships carrying the oil spilling it in the ocean, offshore platforms with oil, and drilling rigs drilling the oil out from the oceanic floor (the type of oil disaster that happened recently in the Gulf of Mexico).
Land Oil Spills
There are also oil spills that occur on land as well. They are usually not as frequent as the marine oil spills, but they occasionally happen. The oil spills from oil wells or drilling rigs that are positioned on land.