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re: First clear satellite view in days..
Posted on 5/18/10 at 8:10 pm to GM4UA
Posted on 5/18/10 at 8:10 pm to GM4UA
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May already be in the loop current and already downstream. The Coast Guard found tar balls near Key West today. Nothing definite on the origin yet.
I talked to several oceanographers at work today and the consensus is that this is from Horizon
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Posted on 5/18/10 at 8:41 pm to baytiger
Oil samples are being sent all over for analysis at the moment. An oil reactor will be setup at LSU very soon and more testing equipment too.
Posted on 5/18/10 at 8:51 pm to baytiger
Anyone with any best guess on Navarre Beach ... we're waiting like everyone else to book closer to our time of travel ... Memorial Weekend or right after.
????? to book or not?????
????? to book or not?????
Posted on 5/18/10 at 8:59 pm to tiger91
Go ahead and book. If the authorities close the beach the hotel has no choice but to refund your money for the stay. They will be getting reimbursed from BP
Posted on 5/19/10 at 10:26 pm to paulie
Posted on 5/20/10 at 9:31 am to Mudminnow
From the advocate
Letter: Oil might lie undersea in perpetuity
BP’s attempts at masking the accurate leakage rate of oil are a disgrace.
Recently, we have learned that the company’s estimates of the leak were based on the spread of oil at the surface. At the same time the company was spraying dispersants directly at the source of the leak a mile beneath the surface, ensuring that most of the oil would never reach the top; thus, never factoring into their estimates.
However, the company’s attempts at keeping the majority of the leak out of sight does not keep it out of mind. New estimates of the leak from the source of the spill were several magnitudes higher than BP’s.
Some will debate that keeping oil below the surface and away from vulnerable shoreline habitat is a good thing and should be done at all cost.
I think this view is shortsighted.
The massive underwater plumes will be disastrous to much of the Gulf’s aquatic systems, including deep-sea habitat, the largest and most stable habitat type in the world.
The deep sea is populated with thousands of species, some of those most primitive, bizarre and poorly known species. Many of them remain undescribed, and are not known to science.
The largest daily migration on Earth takes place in this habitat as fish and invertebrates move up from the safety of the depths to take advantage of food-rich habitat near the surface while under the cover of night. It is clear that these species will be greatly impacted as they move through these newly discovered underwater plumes.
While oil at the surface eventually can be skimmed and treated, there are currently no techniques for removing oil from the depths; and there are likely no plans to ever do so.
Unfortunately, this can mean that these giant oil plumes and the dispersants (that degrade very slowly beneath the surface) may linger in this vulnerable habitat in perpetuity.
Prosanta Chakrabarty
assistant professor/curator of fishes
LSU Museum of Natural Science
Baton Rouge
Letter: Oil might lie undersea in perpetuity
BP’s attempts at masking the accurate leakage rate of oil are a disgrace.
Recently, we have learned that the company’s estimates of the leak were based on the spread of oil at the surface. At the same time the company was spraying dispersants directly at the source of the leak a mile beneath the surface, ensuring that most of the oil would never reach the top; thus, never factoring into their estimates.
However, the company’s attempts at keeping the majority of the leak out of sight does not keep it out of mind. New estimates of the leak from the source of the spill were several magnitudes higher than BP’s.
Some will debate that keeping oil below the surface and away from vulnerable shoreline habitat is a good thing and should be done at all cost.
I think this view is shortsighted.
The massive underwater plumes will be disastrous to much of the Gulf’s aquatic systems, including deep-sea habitat, the largest and most stable habitat type in the world.
The deep sea is populated with thousands of species, some of those most primitive, bizarre and poorly known species. Many of them remain undescribed, and are not known to science.
The largest daily migration on Earth takes place in this habitat as fish and invertebrates move up from the safety of the depths to take advantage of food-rich habitat near the surface while under the cover of night. It is clear that these species will be greatly impacted as they move through these newly discovered underwater plumes.
While oil at the surface eventually can be skimmed and treated, there are currently no techniques for removing oil from the depths; and there are likely no plans to ever do so.
Unfortunately, this can mean that these giant oil plumes and the dispersants (that degrade very slowly beneath the surface) may linger in this vulnerable habitat in perpetuity.
Prosanta Chakrabarty
assistant professor/curator of fishes
LSU Museum of Natural Science
Baton Rouge
Posted on 5/20/10 at 9:40 am to baytiger
quote:
I talked to several oceanographers at work today and the consensus is that this is from Horizon
Key West Tarballs not from spill
Posted on 5/24/10 at 7:19 pm to TigerDog83
Posted on 5/24/10 at 7:22 pm to paulie
Is it just me or the angle but looks like the oil slick is farther north than the previous image above? I'm using the MRGO entrance as a reference point for the northern edge of the slick.
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