A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout

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		A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout
		A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout

Carl Safina has been hailed as one of the top 100 conservations of the 20th century (Audubon Magazine) and A Sea in Flames is his blistering account of the months-long manmade disaster that tormented a region and mesmerized the nation. Traveling across the Gulf to make sense of an ever-changing story and its often-nonsensical twists, Safina expertly deconstructs the series of calamitous misjudgments that caused the Deepwater Horizon blowout, zeroes in on BP’s misstatements, evasions, and denials, reassesses his own reaction to the government’s crisis handling, and reviews the consequences of the leak—and what he considers the real problems, which the press largely overlooked.

Safina takes us deep inside the faulty thinking that caused the lethal explosion. We join him on aerial surveys across an oil-coated sea. We confront pelicans and other wildlife whose blue universe fades to black. Safina skewers the excuses and the silly jargon—like “junk shot” and “top kill”—that made the tragedy feel like a comedy of horrors—and highlighted Big Oil’s appalling lack of preparedness for an event that was inevitable.

Based on extensive research and interviews with fishermen, coastal residents, biologists, and government officials, A Sea In Flames has some surprising answers on whether it was “Obama’s Katrina,” whether the Coast Guard was as inept in its response as BP was misleading, and whether this worst unintended release of oil in history was really America’s worst ecological disaster.            
           
Impassioned, moving, and even sharply funny, A Sea in Flames is ultimately an indictment of America’s main addiction. Safina writes: “In the end, this is a chronicle of a summer of pain—and hope.  Hope that the full potential of this catastrophe would not materialize, hope that the harm done would heal faster than feared, and hope that even if we didn’t suffer the absolutely worst—we’d still learn the big lesson here. We may have gotten two out of three.  That’s not good enough. Because: there’ll be a next time.”             


From the Hardcover edition.

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To say this is an important book would be a vast understatement. Safina gets the science and details, including the heartbreak inflicted on the people of the Gulf and he writes of it masterfully . . . A different style than Im accustomed to from him - presnet tense, fast paced. The great value of the book lies in the fact that Safina took the truth as he found it and reversed many of his early conclusions and preconclusions. The last fifty pages are stunning. I wont spoil it for you. But for example he finds that fish populations had in many cases increased due to the shut down of fishing due to the spill. Complex and highly instructive. My only quarrel is that he beats on Admiral Thad Allan and NOAA head Barbara Lubchenko for most of the book only to reveal in the last chapters . . . Well i wont give away the story

Safina's account of the BP DWH catastrophe is at turns cynical, rational, indignant and insightful. None of the principals are spared from BP to the USCG to the EPA to NOAA. It's one thing to have an ecological disaster result from base corporate greed; however, to watch the disaster magnified by government latitudes in prevention and incompetence in response leads you to question our way of life and the institutions invested with our public trust.

A Sea in Flames is a good read. Carl Safina, a world-class conservationist, does a good job defining the high-level cause of the blowout in language for the layman. More in-depth, he brings experienced insight to those dark months of billowing oil when technology, wildlife, politics, the media, and emotions collided as if dragsters meeting head on.

Not a finished or well written book, more a journal of the author's impressions. Although a well-informed author, this book is more like a daily cataloging of his experiences than a well thought out examination of the disaster.

Superbly written. Thorough and honest reporting on the catastrophic event

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