Red Sea oil spill said to be contained!

Good news! The June 18 Red Sea Oil Spill is now successfully contained and under control, reports the excellent X-RAY MAG.

And here you see a portrait of a little Western footballer from Western Australia who's very pleased to hear the good news concerning his Red Sea cousins.

Wonder if there are any lessons from the Red Sea for cleaning up the BP-Gulf Oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico? For there seems to be no mop big enough to contain the worst environmental disaster is US history (so far.)

Well, The Daily Green provides freshly updated reports on how the Gulf Coast and ocean clean-up efforts are going and how the folks in the devastated region are managing (to the extent that they are.)

But one person didn't manage at all, for I'm very sorry to note that the BP Oil disaster and its dire effects have caused one ship captain to commit suicide. He'd been helping with BP's clean up efforts but it was all too much for him.

How very very sad and this blogger sends out heartfelt condolences to his family.

Sea creatures flee BP Oil disaster, hug coastline to no avail

As you see from this blog of botanical fish illustrations, I adore fish of all stripes and hues. So just when I think dealing with the Carnage on the Gulf Coast due to the marine and shoreline assault from the BP Oil disaster of April 20, 2010 is getting a little easier, I run across this heart-tugger:

Sea Creatures Flee Oil Spill, Gather Near Shore

By JAY REEVES, JOHN FLESHER and TAMARA LUSH

Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again. #

They're gathering near shore as if we can help them while the US Congress pretends to fuss out BP's CEO Tony Hayward who says he's 'distraught.'

I have to stop blogging now. There's much praying to do.