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Scientists Find Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf
“There’s a shocking amount of oil in the deep water, relative to what you see in the surface water,” said Samantha Joye, a researcher at the University of Georgia who is involved in one of the first scientific missions to gather details about what is happening in the gulf. “There’s a tremendous amount of oil in multiple layers, three or four or five layers deep in the water column.”
The plumes are depleting the oxygen dissolved in the gulf, worrying scientists, who fear that the oxygen level could eventually fall so low as to kill off much of the sea life near the plumes.
Dr. Joye said the oxygen had already dropped 30 percent near some of the plumes in the month that the broken oil well had been flowing. “If you keep those kinds of rates up, you could draw the oxygen down to very low levels that are dangerous to animals in a couple of months,” she said Saturday. “That is alarming.”
4 Comments on "Scientists Find Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf"
Kenz300 on Sun, 16th May 2010 11:33 am
Not having a way to shut down the well is a crime.
What ever happened to having a back up plan?
Big business has lost their way. There are no people with ethics in business from Wall Street to Main Street.
Greedy, self centered people with no ethics.
What ever happened to teaching business ethics?
Fiddlerdave on Sun, 16th May 2010 2:38 pm
What ever happened to teaching business ethics? 😆
The same that happened to corporate social responsibility – they were so old and feeble, they put them both on an polar ice floe and let them drift into the dark night as “unessential policies”, as the great Right Wing programming of uneducated America took hold.
“Fiduciary Duty to Maximize Profits at Any Cost” is now our God.
Wheeldog on Sun, 16th May 2010 3:27 pm
That lost oil will not cease to exist when/if the blowout is brought under control. It will continue to spread carried by currents and tides. It will mix with the sea bottom materials and marine plant and animal life. Its toxic impacts will be felt for many generations to come.
Norm on Mon, 17th May 2010 3:25 am
Well, if there is a big gigantic underwater oil slick, and its depleting the oxygen, then setup a ship that trolls with an air pipe and shoots air down to that ocean depth. It can make really fine bubbles like an air mist and that will put the oxygen back where its suposed to be. So the ship could troll with this big thing towed down far below, and use some extra horsepower to pump the air down there.
But ya know, the BP guys wont be doin’ anything like that, those crooked CEO’s dont care about cleaning up their own mess.