Posted on 05/27/2010 2:51:10 PM PDT by valkyry1
NEW ORLEANS – Marine scientists have discovered a massive new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, stretching 22 miles from the leaking wellhead northeast toward Mobile Bay, Alabama.
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David Hollander, associate professor of chemical oceanography at the school, says the thick plume was detected just beneath the surface down to about 3,300 feet. He says it's more than 6 miles wide.
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Must be a crapload of oil under the gulf.
But at least we don’t have to see oil wells in the shallow waters of our coastline; they’re such an eyesore. /s
Ping!
Scientists say they are worried the undersea plumes may be from chemical dispersants used to break up the oil a mile under the surface
This is from the chemicals used to break up the oil???
Hey! We've got to do it to save the planet!!!!
Yeah take a guess at 20,000 barrels a day for more than a month now.
Nothing out there can survive that.
I hope this is an inaccurate report.
so would it be worth while to poke a hole in a plume with a large probe thing and suck the oil from these things as it would all stay together for quite a while........Kinda like lancing a big oil boil
uncertain of the context of the article. I read similar that a subsurface plume existed from the well head source and this sounds like a repeat of it. Since the well head is shut off, this should dissapate too eventually.
meanwhile...
"Just two months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita spilled more than nine million gallons of oil, the oil recovery effort is now 95 percent complete according to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)."
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well in hand, during hurricane season. of course, the Bush administration actually wanted to solve the problem. the 0bama 'administration' wants a crisis to help push their anti-domestic-oil agenda
Just seems to me that a couple of large pipes or hoses, connected to some large pumps and water seperators, on board oil barges, should be able to suck up this plume within a few days!
But all this oil is natural! The Gulf will take care of itself.
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Obama snoozed, oil oozed.
Yes there is. You keep hearing about these tar balls washing up,,, That is natural leakage from the bottom of the gulf.
In the early 70's, I would skip school and go surfing near Destin Fl, tar balls were common on the beach then.
I'm not trying to say the situation in the gulf in not bad, but,,, just FYI.
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