Doesn’t oil float on water? Wouldn’t the underwater oil gradually rise to the surface? Or will the scientists find some explanation for why that oil stays lurking underwater ...
Particulates in the ocean attract the oil. At some saturation point the oil clumps and fails to rise to the surface. Instead it should precipitate out to the bottom, coating the ocean floor in sludge.
If this happens too close to the continental shelf we’ll lose the ocean as a food source, if the currents take it out to deep water I hypothesize the end result will be better for the environment. The deep cold waters will act as a natural containment.
“Doesn’t oil float on water?”
Crude oil is an extremely complex mixture of hydrocarbon molecules. Some are lighter than water and float but those that are heavier will sink.
Because the idiots are using underwater dispersant's on the leaks. They are spraying the oil as it comes out of the pipe with these chemicals. They say that it makes drops finer and promotes bacterial growth that consume the oil. The only problem that I see is they have never done this before. I am all for any solution to the situation but truly these people are making it up as they go along...
It’s colder?
Maybe its heavy crude.
“Doesn’t oil float on water? Wouldn’t the underwater oil gradually rise to the surface? Or will the scientists find some explanation for why that oil stays lurking underwater ...”
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“The depth of the gushing leaks and the use of more than 560,000 gallons of chemicals to disperse the oil, including unprecedented injections deep in the sea, have helped keep the crude beneath the sea surface.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37192352/ns/us_news-environment
Law of unintended consequences?