[valkyry1]

The Gulf is in its death throes right now IMO and there is no way to stop it. A lot of the oil and benzene etc is most likely not even making it all the way up to the surface so it cant be calculated how much deep sea life is being killed. Even the relief wells are a gamble at this point. It looks like the stream is going to get caught by the currents and taken over into the Keys and Cuba.

[valkyry1]

From another article.

http://oilprice.com/Environment/Oil-Spills/White-House-Covers-Up-Menacing-Oil-Blob.html

In an exclusive for Oilprice.com, the Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) has learned from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sources that U.S. Navy submarines deployed to the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast have detected what amounts to a frozen oil blob from the oil geyser at the destroyed Deep Horizon off-shore oil rig south of Louisiana. The Navy submarines have trained video cameras on the moving blob, which remains frozen at depths of between 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Because the oil blob is heavier than water, it remains frozen at current depths.

FEMA and Corps of Engineers employees are upset that the White House and the Pentagon remain tight-lipped and in cover-up mode about the images of the massive and fast-moving frozen coagulated oil blob that is being imaged by Navy submarines that are tracking its movement. The sources point out that BP and the White House conspired to withhold videos from BP-contracted submersibles that showed the oil geyser that was spewing oil from the chasm underneath the datum of the Deep Horizon at rates far exceeding originally reported amounts. We have learned that it was largely WMR’s scoop on the existence of the BP videos that forced the company and its White House patrons to finally agree to the release of the video footage.

The White House is officially stating that it does not know where the officially reported 10 miles long by 3 miles wide “plume” is actually located or in what direction it is heading. However, WMR’s sources claim the White House is getting real-time reports from Navy submarines as to the blob’s location. We have learned that the blob is transiting the Florida Straits between Florida and Cuba, propelled by the Gulf’s Loop Current, and that parts of it that is encountering warmer waters are breaking off into smaller tar balls that are now washing ashore in the environmentally-sensitive Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas.

WMR sources also report that the oil mass has resulted in dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico that have cut off oxygen and killed massive numbers of marine creatures and plant life. Seafood wholesalers from the Gulf Coast to New Jersey and New York have been told that the supply of shrimp, oysters, and other seafood from the Gulf is severely in short supply and that they can expect a possible total cut-off as the situation worsens. The shortage will also affect the supply of seafood, especially shrimp, to national seafood restaurant chains like Red Lobster and Long John Silver’s.

There is also evidence that BP, Halliburton, and Transocean sank a drill to a depth of 35,000 feet at the Deep Horizon site some six months ago without the required permits from the federal government. WMR has learned from U.S. government sources that the drilling at 35,000 feet caused a major catastrophic event that required the firms’ oil rig personnel to quickly pull up the drill and close the drill hole.

[Carley]

Now they’re asking why booms weren’t put in place?

They have had a month to react to this spill but it seems the entire administration and the state of Louisiana were far to busy making sure the boot was firmly on BPs neck rather than protecting America.

What a shock!

not

[Carley]

Don’t you just love that our communist president has been coordinating with his good friends in communist Cuba all the while ignoring our own coast line.

[valkyry1]

From another article

The once productive, deep blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico were now smothering under an unnatural blanket of black and red streaks that stretched on for more than 87 miles. That is wider than the state of Florida.

Pilot John Wathen admitted that he was deeply effected by the “red mass of floating goo” that he saw. He said, “For the first time in my environmental career, I find myself using the word hopeless.”

During the course of his flight, Wathen counted more than 30 boats circling uselessly around the massive oil slick.

“We can’t stop this.” He said, “There’s no way to prevent this from hitting our shoreline.”

The images that reached the horizon were all the same. “The Gulf appears to be bleeding,” Wathen said. “No one knows if the Gulf will ever heal from this.”

With some estimates placing the amount of bleeding oil at 50 million gallons and growing, the Gulf of Mexico 2010 oil spill has already changed life on earth for thousands of people in the fishing industry. What it has done to the fish, and the marine life that once fed on them is more than another page for our history books; it is rewriting our future.

[GOPJ]

Is God trying to tell us something about the New Orleans area?

[deport]

Louisiana has been losing costal marsh lands and seeing its coast line move inland each year for various reasons. However with the loss of the marsh grasses which help hold the silt in place the loss of the marsh lands will increase, imo. The coast line may well move miles inland over the next few years from its current location.

[IMR 4350]

The Gulf is in it’s death throes?
You’re a nut.
That’s not my opinion, that’s fact.

[My Favorite Headache]

Local weather guessers aka TV weathermen/women are saying even if the small amount they think will enter the current will dissipate naturally and have no effects on the east coast or the Keys...boy...what optimism they have...or they are just trying to suppress the reality of tourism being leveled to zero.

[Interesting Times]

The Gulf is in its death throes right now IMO and there is no way to stop it.

Ah, no. This still isn't a top-20 oil spill. Also, the warm conditions and direct sunlight in the Gulf break down oil much faster than, say the Exxon Valdez spill in the Arctic. There is no evidence for an epic cataclysm on the scale you so vividly imagine.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“we’ll be 25 to 30 years, if ever, recovering from this.”

No way.
This isn’t Alaska; temps are warm in the gulf areas, I would guess that nature will get rid of this quickly.