New report finds most oil from Gulf Spill still sitting on bottom of Gulf

[devil21]

All that crap about "microbes" was....crap.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sci_oil_spill_lingers


WASHINGTON – Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor.

That report is at odds with a recent report by the BP spill compensation czar that said nearly all will be well by 2012.
more at link

[Zippyjuan]

The article did not report any large pools or lakes of oil. It is over a mile down (over 4000 feet to the well) and very dark and cold so any natural microbes or anything to break it down will not act as quickly as they do in shallower waters (where I was actually pretty amazed how quickly it disappeared). They seem to work better with the help of sunlight. It is being slowly covered by silt and sediments.
Report made from her submersable:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131651480

RICHARD HARRIS: Well, we are about half a mile under the surface of the sea here, and we are about 10 miles from the Macondo oil well that blew out in April.

The submarine is called the Alvin, and this is it is a titanium sphere that holds three people. There are three windows about six inches across. We peer out. And lo and behold, when we look out the window when we hit the bottom, at first, it looks completely ordinary to me, having never seen the seafloor here before.

But as we stirred up the seafloor a little bit, it became evident that there's a light brown layer covering the gray mud here pretty much everywhere we go. We still see fish and clams and crabs and stuff like that all over the place. But clearly, there's also this brown tinge every direction we looked in.



HARRIS: The layer where we are right now isn't very thick, I would say half an inch or something, maybe even a little bit less than that. But it's everywhere you look. So when you consider that, you know, hundreds of hundreds of square miles were under the spill on the surface, there could be a little bit right here could translate to a lot of oil in total on the seafloor.

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

the oil didn't disappear into a parallel universe? no waiii