[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That is a very smart wallet....LOL!

Further comments at TOD...link to the subthread:

Well, here we go again.

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Posted by dissent555 on September 22, 2010 - 4:13pm

Yet again I am astounded by the awesome skillz of our science journalism mega-swat team. The "oil on the seafloor" link is to an old graphic from back on 28 April that doesn't reference the condition of oil on the seafloor at all. The headline blares that oil "Coats [the] Gulf Seafloor", then the article tells that "in spots" the "oily snow" is up to 6 inches thick - clearly a different perception that one would get from the headline alone.

And no, Brett, Lakeview still wins as the "largest oil spill in U.S. history". Oh, you meant "offshore oil spill"? Sorry, that's not what you wrote.

Expect better from a place that calls itself LiveScience.

The data will be interesting, whenever it does come in. This kind of reportage just feeds the trolls.

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Sentence from near the end of the article:

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After a relief well was drilled to intercept the well, the gusher was finally sealed on Sept. 18 with a blast of cement to cap the busted pipe.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

not aware of any Busted Pipe

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So much for a competent Science Writer

[Carry_Okie]

Although most of it is as an emulsion and is inoculated with bacteria (both good), I wonder how active those bugs will be at temperatures like that with as little circulation as one would see at a boundary layer. Hence, I would think it would be hard to predict how stable the system is because factors such as topography, currents, etc, would definitely be in play. Further, if the blanket is thick differential pressures and surface chemistry would tend to recombine the droplets into a mass.

dunno.