Oil Spill (any details?)

[GoNRA 12]

ummmm after all this time, im still wondering how it happened. Anyone hear anything yet? or are we just going to ignore that factor?

[DirtyDigz 1,811]

This is the best source of info about the spill I've seen. It's a blog, opinionated and technical:

 

http://alfin2100.blogspot.com/

 

Here's the official web site on the spill:

 

http://www.d8externalaffairs.com/go/site/2931/#/

[DirtyDigz 1,811]

Latest on the investigation here:

 

http://www.deepwaterinvestigation.com/go/doc/3043/550343/

[Damjan 73]

Massive oil plumes under US Gulf

Scientists have found vast underwater plumes of oil, one 10 miles (16km) long and a mile wide, in the Gulf of Mexico, following last month's rig disaster.

 

A Georgia University expert warned oxygen levels had fallen 30% in some areas of the sea, and it could take decades to repair the damage.

 

BP is still trying to insert a tube into the gushing well to siphon the crude to a ship on the surface.

 

The US government has demanded BP make clear its commitment to pay damages.

 

Researchers from the National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology say they have detected several sprawling oil slicks lurking just beneath the surface of the sea and at depths of 4,000ft (1,200m).

 

Dead zones

 

The find suggests the scale of the potential environmental disaster is much worse than previously feared since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig blew up on 20 April, killing 11 workers.