Oily Sheen on Large Part of Alabama Waters

Our third aerial tour began at Perdido Pass in Orange Beach and along with pilot David Walter, we headed west.
"At first we had to go out 10 or 12 miles before we could see anything," says Walter.
We don't see the floating patches of oil close into the shoreline instead, we see a sheen or film covering the majority of the water. "75 percent of the Gulf of Mexico that I've been able to see along Alabama's coast has a thin film of oil and you can see it, it's a shiny film."
Beaches in Orange Beach are clean. But further west we see our first clean up crews working at the state park from the beach pavilion to the first crossover.
As we flew into Gulf Shores, seaweed was washing ashore and along with it tar balls and patches of oil as big as pizzas littered the beaches.
There was evidence clean up crews had been here but left before the job was finished.
"The further you come the sadder it gets," says Bambi Grods a beach goer from Excel. "I grew up in Pensacola on the beach and it's so sad to see your white sands have all this on it."
The waters have been closed to fishing. A swimming advisory has been issued by the state health department and yet swimmers are everywhere.
As we fly by the Bon Secour Wildlife Refuge we see more clean up crews and lots more oil, but as we get closer to the point where tar balls had littered the area, the beaches are white again.
Still the sheen is everywhere including Mobile Bay and the oil keeps gushing.