The BP Oil Spill – A Story from Our Customers
Here at Sea Bags, we love our walk-in customers. Like our sails, each has an interesting story of their own. This week we met a wonderful gentleman from Ft. Morgan, Alabama who told us about how the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has affected his life and his livelihood in southern Alabama.
Captain Hal runs a 31′ charter boat out of his home port. With a certain degree of sadness in his eyes he spoke of how his home port has become destroyed due to the ever increasing oil leaking into the gulf. His boat, which is now leased out to BP, is being used for clean-up purposes. Unfortunately, Captain Hal realizes that the Gulf will never come back within his lifetime.
We’re happy to have had Captain Hal share his story of his life at sea with us. It causes us all to stop and think about how lucky we are to be living here on the beautiful coast of Maine.
Image via: AP Press.
June 9th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
I can only sympathize with the Captain. An oil spill of this magnitude will affect the Gulf Coast area, and possibly all of Florida more than most everyone can imagine. The whole area will eventually be a kill zone. The state of Florida has spent $35M so far just to try and salvage the summer vacation season. The spill could eventually lead to millions of job losses and hundreds of billions of loss for everyone on the tourist and fishing business.