Gulf of Mexico floor is now devoid of life

Its like the little kid who spills his milk on the floor. He looks around to see if anybody saw him, but he will not clean it up unless someone makes him clean it up. One day the people will grow tired of the likes of BP and start taking matters into their own hands. I'll be smiling.

The microbes that munch oil would have eventually taken care of the problem naturally, but they sprayed the oil dispersant which is highly toxic and it killed the microbes which only makes the problem worse. Now mother nature cannot much the oil.

It sounds like an underwater Chernobyl disaster. It's inhabitable.

I just got off the phone with a friend that works at the Coast Guard oil analysis laboratory where the oil "fingerprinting" has been done since this started. The oil found in this survey wasn't analyzed by this lab - so there is no proof that the oil found was actually from the Mississippi-Canyon discharge. The accusation that they found "BP oil" is akin to finding a body and announcing to the world that the Boston Strangler killed them... there's no proof. The US Coast Guard has been working spontaneous oil discharges in the Gulf of Mexico for over 30 years, and there were reports of oil slic... [More]

@Travelling Man In five different expeditions, the last one in December, Joye and colleagues took 250 cores of the sea floor and travelled across 2,600 square miles. Some of the locations she had been studying before the oil spill on April 20 and said there was a noticeable change. Much of the oil she found on the sea floor — and in the water column — was chemically fingerprinted, proving it comes from the BP spill. Joye is still waiting for results to show other oil samples she tested are from BP's Macondo well. Which ones aren't proven yet ? Department of Energy scientist, doing research... [More]

There have been NO requests for analysis from the University of Georgia. If she is doing sanctioned research for the University, it would be the Uni that would request and pay for the analysis.

There have been NO requests for analysis from the University of Georgia. If she is doing sanctioned research for the University, it would be the Uni that would request and pay for the analysis. So the results of her analysis is "inconclusive" or "unreliable" ? Actually I don't know whats the difference between results from Uni of Georgia and not, what does "sanctioned" means here ? thanks

There is absolutely no proof of that: Granted, introducing ANY chemical into a natural environment is bound to have some kind of adverse effects, the dispersent that they had been using while I was there had been deemed "green" by various agencies. Truthfully, they don't know why the microbes aren't down there... there could easily be a great number of reasons, many of which are due to Mother Nature herself. The microbes that munch oil would have eventually taken care of the problem naturally, but they sprayed the oil dispersant which is highly toxic and it killed the microbes which only makes... [More]

Last July I had volunteered to work with the Biologists on the Gulf Coast to assess the damage... it was nasty. To answer your question aquatus1, there was a vast, diverse biological ecosytem on the seafloor. You can find detailed information here: http://www.eoearth.org/article/Gulf_of_Mexico_large_marine_ecosystem?topic=49522 Thank you. I wish you would have been on the other thread about it where the guy was saying "It wasn't that bad at all" who worked with an assessment crew. What happened with the deal where they were planning to introduce more microbes into the water? Did that never hap... [More]

There is absolutely no proof of that: Granted, introducing ANY chemical into a natural environment is bound to have some kind of adverse effects, the dispersent that they had been using while I was there had been deemed "green" by various agencies. Truthfully, they don't know why the microbes aren't down there... there could easily be a great number of reasons, many of which are due to Mother Nature herself. What various agencies deemed Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527 as "green"? According to the EPA they are considered to be an acute health hazard to humans and may be more toxic to marine life.... [More]