New Video: Evolution of BP Oil Spill, 4/20-6/13 | Oil a few miles from Tampa and FL Keys

Navy Coastal Ocean Model ^ | June 18, 2010 | jackie

[rarestia]

Property values are already on the wane in this area. I lost $30K on my home, and I’ve only been in it for 2 years. Such is life, I suppose. I have no intent on moving anytime soon.

[ignoramus2010]

"After initially declining, U.S. Government officials have decided to accept an offer from the Dutch government to send four large oil skimmers to the site of the BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico... One ton of oil is equal to approximately 7.3 barrels, so 5,000 tons a day is about 36,500 barrels per day. Collectively, the four skimmers can take up to 146,000 barrels per day." - article

If the skimmers were used early, even at the current leak estimate of 60,000 barrels/day, no oil would have reached the shore, and it would be totally unnecessary to use dispersants.

[Trust but Verify]

I just read a story yesterday that said the oil was more than 90 miles from Sarasota.

[rarestia]

I’m usually out on the water fishing or kayaking on the weekends. I’ll keep an eye out. I was fishing 10 miles out last weekend and it was beautiful. I was kayaking out at Beercan Island on Wednesday. It was beautiful there as well.

[Bon mots]

[knarf]

I’m in SW Pa .. none of those names mean anything to me, but east and west coast, X miles out ... DO.

[Joe Brower]

Florida Freeper

[dangus]

Model, not reality. Worth zero.

[NautiNurse]

Color me skeptical toward the veracity of information from an anonymous source using the pseudonym "OILFLORIDA" and a website named "floridaoilspilllaw.com." Hey Noob, are you trying to drum up business for your law firm?

Local Tampa Bay news reported at 12 noon today that the nearest oil to Tampa Bay is ~150 miles offshore, and that is a light sheen. Daily C-130 flights monitor the Tampa Bay area for oil intrusion.

"The threat remains low," U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Tim Close said at a news conference at the state Fish and Wildlife Commission Research Institute. tbo.com

[Joe Brower]

Howdy, NN -- I report, you decide. $;-)

[GOPJ]

I hope someone has the wit to block off Tampa Bay - can’t stop oil in the Gulf - but how hard could it be to keep it out of an narrow enough to be spanned by a bridge?