Gulf Oil Platform Explosion and Spill

A new report from the Joint Analysis Group (JAG), which includes the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, found that oxygen levels have dropped by about 20% below average in locations around the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

In an unrelated development, a team of researchers has found evidence (see photo, right) of precipitated oil on the seafloor below causing significant harm to organisms there.

As I pointed out on August 20th:

There is no clear science showing that dispersants help microbes break down oil. As Chemical and Engineering News noted in June:

Behind those teams’ assumption lie murky data. The authors of the 2005 [National Research Council] dispersant report described the results of three decades of research into dispersants’ effects on biodegradation as “mixed” with studies showing evidence for “enhancement, inhibition, and no effect.”
I noted last week:

Some experts have also said that the use of Corexit has prolonged by decades the presence of toxic crude oil, because the dispersant sinks the oil beneath the ocean surface, where it cannot be quickly broken down by sun, waves and microbes.

And the head of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Ecology Department - Terry Hazen - argues that the use of dispersants can delay recovery of ocean ecosystems by decades:

Wherever disaster strikes, there’s always an associated crud.

There was the Exxon Valdez Crud. The Nine Eleven Crud. The Katrina Cough, and then the TVA coal ash cough.

Now, along the entire coast of the Gulf of Mexico, there is the BP Crud, afflicting workers and the general population from Louisiana to Florida.

mudra wrote: Conclusive Evidence Well A is not the well that blew up on 20 April – part 3 AoM

Vidya Moksha wrote:

mudra wrote: Conclusive Evidence Well A is not the well that blew up on 20 April – part 3 AoM

Interesting... I havent read back through all these posts, and it may have been linked earlier, but I do remember watching real time shipping charts with all 'sea craft' (ships and subs) marked with their lat long position, and the sub that was 'fixing' the leak was miles off its supposed position...

Now, there is definitely natural seepage going on here, but what else? have they let the genie out of the bottle?

I keep remembering a quote from the swine flu period... something along the lines that the vaccination programme was just a test of the sheeple, and what 'they' were really planning was much much worse that we dare imagine

TRANCOSO wrote:Anyone seen this? This was a wrecked ROV which another ROV came upon accidentally....what happened to it....notice the " red fiery substance" we have been seeing coming from off screen....is it just me, or does that dead ROV look like it was caught in some sort of violent event? This was from yesterday I believe....it looks like the same area where all those eruptions happen. Which is in the debris field from the rig explosion BTW. Check out the video.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_CFrh5h2A

lindabaker wrote:

TRANCOSO wrote:Anyone seen this? This was a wrecked ROV which another ROV came upon accidentally....what happened to it....notice the " red fiery substance" we have been seeing coming from off screen....is it just me, or does that dead ROV look like it was caught in some sort of violent event? This was from yesterday I believe....it looks like the same area where all those eruptions happen. Which is in the debris field from the rig explosion BTW. Check out the video.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_CFrh5h2A

I watched it, and saw the red fiery "fallout." Is is oil particles (blobs) falling from above? Is is volcanic effluvia? Is it just a camera refraction, like a lens flare that changes the color from white to red? If so, why are some of the falling blobs white, and others So fiery red? It doesn't make sense. In my wildest imagination, there is a volcano that is spewing bits of lava and radiation. If that's the case, isn't that a picture! The Gulf is full of boiling radioactive hot oil. And toxic chemicals. And rotting fish. As my kids would say: Run away!

Run away!

Private contractor in Carolina Skiff with tank of Corexit dispersant, August 10, south of Pass Christian Harbor, 9:30 AM. (Photo: Don Tillman)
Shirley and Don Tillman, residents of Pass Christian, Mississippi, have owned shrimp boats, an oyster boat and many pleasure boats. They spent much time on the Gulf of Mexico before working in BP's Vessels Of Opportunity (VOO) program looking for and trying to clean up oil.

Don decided to work in the VOO program in order to assist his brother, who was unable to do so due to health problems. Thus, Don worked on the boat and Shirley decided to join him as a deckhand most of the days.

"We love the Gulf, our life is here and so when this oil disaster happened, we wanted to do what we could to help clean it up," Shirley explained to Truthout.

However, not long after they began working in BP's response effort in June, what they saw disturbed them. "It didn't take long for us to understand that something was very, very wrong about this whole thing," Shirley told Truthout. "So that's when I started keeping a diary of what we experienced and began taking a lot of pictures. We had to speak up about what we know is being done to our Gulf."