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NOAA: “Oil plume located off Florida’s SW coast and heading toward the Tortugas”, FL Keys
University of Miami ^ | June 14, 2010 | jackie

Posted on 06/14/2010 11:15:35 AM PDT by jackietree

SNIP

“As we approached, we found an extensive oil slick that stretched about 20 nm (20 miles) along the southward flowing jet which merged with the northern front of the Loop Current. ...

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“The combination of models and satellite images, along with our shipboard observations and ROFFS daily analysis had helped us to identify and study this previously unidentified oil plume located off Florida’s southwest coast and heading toward the Tortugas.”


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Looks like yesterdays forecast was correct:

NOAA forecast: Oil 50 miles from Florida Keys by June 15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmHD7jLlNPE

1 posted on 06/14/2010 11:15:35 AM PDT by jackietree
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To: jackietree

up for a game of gold, anyone? /sarc


2 posted on 06/14/2010 11:16:52 AM PDT by And2TheRepublic
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To: And2TheRepublic

golf*


3 posted on 06/14/2010 11:17:10 AM PDT by And2TheRepublic
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To: jackietree; Joe Brower

Joe: Please PING FL FReepers.
THX, Julie


4 posted on 06/14/2010 11:19:08 AM PDT by JulieRNR21 (We Will Remember in November 2010.........)
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To: And2TheRepublic
"Can't suck it up with a straw!"
5 posted on 06/14/2010 11:19:37 AM PDT by RetroSexual
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To: jackietree

Just damn.

Makes me unbelievably angry. Can’t imagine those who live there.


6 posted on 06/14/2010 11:20:35 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: jackietree

I’m guess that the US lack of leadership will not be appreciated if the spill contaminates more than the Gulf of Mexico. Which it sounds like it might.

Yes, time for another round of golf. There are plenty of nice courses in the panhandle. I’m sure O’s social secretary could easily get a foursome together.

Which brings up a question - does he have separate social secretaries, one for golf, one for vacations, one to set up attractive photo sessions? Setting up his golf outings looks like it could be a fulltime job.


7 posted on 06/14/2010 11:22:43 AM PDT by SusaninOhio
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To: jackietree

I am kicking myself I never did the whole cruise to the tortugas before to snorkel the reef.

This whole thing just makes me so mad. That place is going to get destroyed by the oil.


8 posted on 06/14/2010 11:24:38 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: jackietree
Which plume?

NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco said that the tests conducted at three sites by a University of South Florida research vessel confirmed oil as far as 3,300 feet below the surface 42 miles northeast of the well site. Oil also was found in a sub-surface sample 142 miles southeast of the spill, but further tests showed that oil is "not consistent" with oil from the spill.

Lubchenco said the water analysis "indicate there is definitely oil sub surface. It's in very low concentrations" of less than 0.5 parts per million. Additional samples from another research vessel are being tested, she said.

9 posted on 06/14/2010 11:28:25 AM PDT by SouthTexas (Congress is out of order!)
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To: jackietree

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=dry+tortugas&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=AHQWTOCwKMT6lwf9_OG5DA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CEwQsAQwAw

In case anyone is interested in what we are about kill.

Get a good last look.


10 posted on 06/14/2010 11:28:54 AM PDT by KDD (When the government boot is on your neck, it matters not whether it is the right boot or the left.)
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To: jackietree
Once the oil is picked up by the currents that turn into the Gulf Stream areas like the Pennekamp State Park Coral Reef near Key Largo will be severely impacted. Great scuba and snorkeling area that will be lost, possibly forever. This disaster is only it's early stages.
11 posted on 06/14/2010 11:32:45 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: KDD

http://www.closertonature.com/maps/dry-tortugas-map.jpg

This place is about as good as it gets in terms of “pristine”....

Really sad.


12 posted on 06/14/2010 11:35:44 AM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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To: KDD

‘we’?

You mean Obama’s dithering and playing golf, is going to kill..


13 posted on 06/14/2010 11:37:26 AM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: And2TheRepublic
up for a game of golf, anyone? /sarc

He obviously keeps misunderstanding people. When they say "Gulf" he hears "golf."

14 posted on 06/14/2010 11:38:07 AM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: jackietree

Tortugas = Fort Jefferson National Park and a vast nature presurve, a marine nature preserve.

If Obama permits that while not letting those that can clean up even if they are non union, he will split his base.

It will be enviro wackos vs: union wackos.......what a great turn of events


15 posted on 06/14/2010 11:42:08 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
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To: jackietree

Link..says not found


16 posted on 06/14/2010 11:45:23 AM PDT by Irisshlass
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To: Irisshlass

http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/breaking-noaa-scientists-say-oil-plume-located-off-florida%e2%80%99s-southwest-coast-and-heading-toward-the-tortugas


17 posted on 06/14/2010 11:47:44 AM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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To: jackietree

Let me know when it reaches Martha’s Vineyard - then I know it will be cleaned up and taken care of.


18 posted on 06/14/2010 11:49:49 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: KDD

Thanks for the reminder of my failures to go there when I took trips to the Keys.

This is just making me sick to my stomach.


19 posted on 06/14/2010 11:50:35 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: KDD

But, but, I’ve been told by several freepers that this is not that big a deal, it is overblown, the gulf will not die, nature will heal itself, bla, bla, bla...


20 posted on 06/14/2010 11:58:14 AM PDT by a real Sheila (WHY is BP allowed to use "sinking agents" on the oil spill?!!!!)
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