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By Ben Raines Published: Wednesday, June 09, 2010, 5:12 PM Scientists measured two areas of low oxygen off the Alabama coast Tuesday, finding levels below the threshold that marine creatures need to survive. The first low-oxygen pocket was found on the bottom in about 60 feet of water 12 miles off the coast due south […]
By Peter Aldhous , Phil McKenna and Caitlin Stier 09 June 2010 * 16:14 THE Deepwater Horizon blowout is the largest oil spill in US history, but its ecological impact need not be the worst. It all hinges on the amount and composition of the oil that reaches the Gulf of Mexico’s most sensitive habitat: […]
By Jorge Estevez PENSACOLA (CBS4) — Fifty days into the oil spill crisis, NOAA has confirmed that underwater oil plumes are spreading as far as 142 miles from the Deepwater Horizon spill. Officials with President Barack Obama’s administration says the containment cap put over the spill is showing promise; now, officials are concerned about the […]
www.msnbc.com staff and news service reports Clouds of oil have been found drifting underwater in the Gulf of Mexico as far as 142 miles from the wrecked Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, government officials said Tuesday. At a briefing, Jane Lubchenko, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), said that tests conducted at three sites […]
Giant plumes of crude oil mixed with methane are sweeping the ocean depths with devastating consequences. ‘I’m not too worried about oil on the surface,’ says one scientist. ‘It’s the things we don’t see that worry me the most.’ By Sharon Begley, with Ian Yarett in New York and Daniel Stone in WashingtonJune 06, 2010 […]
By Samantha Joye | Published: June 6, 2010 12:17am June 5th, 18:34. The plume was hiding. We anticipated that the flow trajectory of the oil and gas discharging from the leaking riser pipe would change after the pipe was cut but it was tough to predict which way the flow would go. We had a […]
By Debbie WilliamsPublished: Mon, June 07, 2010 – 7:20 pm CST GULF SHORES, Alabama – Pilot David Walter flew us west over Wolf Bay, Bay La Launch to Bear Point Marina. From the air we could see a thin film of sheen in Perdido Bay. What we didn’t see was a whole lot of protection […]
By Chris Kirkham, The Times-Picayune June 07, 2010, 12:30PM The wives of two workers who died in the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion testified this morning before a special meeting of the House Energy subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in Chalmette. Both told committee members that their husbands, Shane Roshto and Wyatt Kemp, […]
A month after the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform burned and sunk in the Gulf of Mexico, Grand Isle, Louisiana was deluged with an orangish brown toxic mix of crude oil and dispersal agents sprayed into the spill in unprecedented volumes. The ‘hot zone’ is the designation for the area of the beach or wetlands that […]
