Hidden Menace in the Gulf of Mexico: Oil Spill’s Real Threat Lies Beneath the Surface
Oil is collected in skimming boom
Samantha Joye was sure she was right. Somewhere down there, the toxic clouds were sure to exist. And now she was holding the evidence in her hands. A thin film of oil glistened in one of the small sample bottles Joye had filled with water taken from more than 1 kilometer (3,300 feet) beneath the surface.
“You could see it. Everybody saw it,” Joye, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Georgia, … More
This whole disaster with BP is idiocy. The amount of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico jumped by 1000s of barrelfuls Wednesday after an subaquatic droid ostensibly shook the containment cap that has been capturing petroleum from BP’s Macondo well. I question how much desolation this entire oil spill is going to cost the gulf when it’s all over and done with