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Deep Horizon Oil Spill in the marshes of Venice, Louisiana

The Gulf of Mexico is in a state of emergency after the disastrous oil platform explosion, and the oil continues to spew from broken pipes; before this disaster, the State of Florida proposed opening its nearshore waters to oil drilling, and President Obama had asked for increased offshore oil production.

We are facing an environmental crisis of historic proportions, so Jean-Michel Cousteau has dispatched team members Matt Ferraro, Brian Hall, and Nathan Dembeck to join him and Gary Holland at St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, to find and explain the realities of this unprecedented oil spill.

Jean-Michel Cousteau has been on site at the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska and the Prestige oil spill in Spain, but they don’t compare with the magnitude of this Gulf spill. We will look for immediate solutions but may mostly find reasons why this must never happen again and what must be done for the future.

Please follow the OFS team, in real time, as they explore the front line of the oil spill.

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Homepage Photo: 2002 Prestige Oil Spill disaster, Spain © Nancy Marr, Ocean Futures Society
Header Photo: Jean-Michel Cousteau walks the beach after the 2002 Prestige Oil Spill disaster, Spain © Nancy Marr, Ocean Futures Society
Background Photo: 2010 Deep Horizon Oil Spill, Venice, Louisiana. © Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society
First Photo: Deep Horizon Oil Spill in the marshes of Venice, Louisiana. © Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society

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In 1995 At Maui High Performance Computing Center The Maui Scientific Analysis & Visualization of the Environment Program was first incubated. I was the principal investigator of this independant research project which was a joint development between MHPCC, Silicon Graphics Computers (SGI) & NKO.ORG. Using SGI Cosmo Worlds software, we pioneered the development of Internet based 3D virtual reality GIS based interactive worlds. In 1996 with a network of seven high performance SGI workstations we pioneered development of live streaming MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Real Video and QuickTime Streaming Server utilizing Kassenna MediaBase software. In Maui 2002 we pioneered and tested the first wireless live streaming video using laptop computers and Maui Sky Fiber's portable 3G wireless device. In Maui we pioneered live streaming video using usb modems from AT&T , Verizon as well as live streaming from iPhone 3 over 3G wireless networks. Today The Maui S.A.V.E. Program has diversified into storm tracking including visualization and analysis of large, memory-intensive gridded data sets such as the National Hurricane Center's wind speed probabilities. I volunteer my services to numerous Disaster Services Organizations. In June 2013 I returned from Hurricane Sandy deployment as a computer operations service associate with the Disaster Services Technology Group assisting as The American Red Cross migrated from a Disaster Response Operation to Long Term Recovery Operations. Pioneering the production/editing and Internet distribution of HD video to sites like Youtube.com and Vimeo.com we are shining the light towards environmental and peace efforts of humans across the globe. Since 1992 I have held the vision of establishing Maui, Hawaii as the environmental sciences center of the world. After His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet came to Maui This vision has expanded to establishing Maui as the environmental & peace center of the world.

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