Danger! polluted seas

On the shores of the seven seas, from the Antarctic to Florida and all along the West coast of Europe, the pollution of the sea by oil fuel has for years been an unmitigated nuisance to all those who look to the seashore for their pleasure or for their livelihood.

Oil, washed up on the beaches, and left behind by the receding tide, is at the least unpleasant. It spoils the enjoyment of swimmers and holiday makers, ruining their clothes and their shoes. If these conditions prevail over any length of coastline, the dispirited holiday maker can pack up and go home, or if he is lucky during the holiday season find somewhere else to go; but thousands of people whose livelihood is provided by the seaside, suffer a loss of trade as well as damage to the carpets and furnishings of their hotels or lodging houses.

Inshore fishermen suffer, for it is impossible to wash fish covered with oil. Lobsters do not breed. And even the most thoughtless must deplore the plight of sea birds whose feathers have become coated with oil and have thus been deprived of their power to swim or to fly. Unless they receive highly skilled help, such birds arc doomed to a miserable end by starvation. 

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