Posted on 05/17/2010 5:31:20 AM PDT by Scythian
"Researchers have found more underwater plumes of oil than they can count from the blown-out well, said Samantha Joye, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Georgia. She said careful measurements taken of one plume showed it stretching for 10 miles, with a 3-mile width."
The Christian Science Monitor also reports now that as much as 3.4 million gallons of oil may be leaking into the Gulf every day!
"The oil that can be seen from the surface is apparently just a fraction of the oil that has spilled into the Gulf of Mexico since April 20, according to an assessment the National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology. Significant amounts of oil are spreading at various levels throughout the water column... Scientists looking at video of the leak, suggest that as many as 3.4 million gallons of oil could be leaking into the Gulf every day – 16 times more than the current 210,000-gallon-a-day estimate, according to the Times."
(Excerpt) Read more at naturalnews.com ...
oil is natural. Millions of gallons naturally seep into the gulf anyway and the gulf life takes care of it.
What we have here is a wasted resource problem. NOT an environmental problem.
In spite of its dread predictions this article is quite humorous to me. I’m not sure who the author represents but it sounds like they would normally be supporters of the great 0 administration and its efforts to “green”the earth and the economy but now that they’re disappointed by 0’s inability to conquer this problem and disillusioned by the idea that they may be lying to the public about its extent, they are very righteously outraged by the “murder of all life in the Gulf” and the “gaping wound in the Earth HERSELF”. Why O why haven’t we blanketed the entire state of Arizona with solar panels and got rid of this horrible black stuff by now? I know this is a very serious problem but the way this article is written just makes me laugh.
So much BS here.
Look at the worst spills in the world’s history.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8664684.stm
Ixtoc is the leader and makes the BP spill tiny in comparison. It also was in the Gulf and GEE WHIZ, there was life in Gulf afterwards.
Another “sky is falling” rant.
Interesting, Wiki puts the gulf war as the greatest oil spill in history, between 1,360,000–1,500,000 tons spilled into the water.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_spills#Largest_oil_spills
You nailed it, thanks.
Cleaning Up the Gulf
How smart sponge technology may be solution to Gulf disaster
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4198375/cleaning-up-the-gulf
Another scare crisis from the media.
It’s colder?
Maybe its heavy crude.
I'm running with your numbers. I was up to a kazillion, but I started running out of zeros. Yours is easier to type.
Eleventy billion! 
I do not think that was all in the water, as most of the wells were on land.
That may be the diff.
I lived in Corpus Christi in 1979 when Ixtoc blew out.
We had oil on the beaches but it went away in short order.
Life figures a way to survive and it does not really need us humans to do so.
As someone else said, oil is a natural substance and the amount of leaks in the world far surpass accidents by men.
I think I see the problem. They need to hire researchers who can count past eleventy-teen.
Apparently, the solution to the problem is beyond the capability of standard Remedial Math courses.
Why didn’t I think of it? Sham-Wow to the rescue!
Sham Wow?
Excellent graphic - but is “spilt” really a word?
It’s a shame Natural News occasionally latches onto just bs... but what has me worried in the back of my mind is what does a typical late-July Cat2/Cat3 hurricane wandering somewhere between NO and the Forgotten Coast do to the suspended residue? Whip it onshore or break it up?
“break it up”
Based upon my 11 years in the oil business in Louisiana and watching a number of hurricanes come through, a large storm will disperse anything to the extent it will disappear.
It is the ultimate cleaner-upper nature has.
“Natural News”? How about this, “No Problem: Oil is Natural”
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