Scientist "astonished" that he found so much crude -- Questions Fed's estimate of oil in Gulf

[Generic Other]

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Government estimates of oil in Gulf may miss mark, Fox 8 New Orleans, October 25, 2010:

Transcript Excerpts On a dock in Cocodrie, Paul Sammarco unfurls a 15-foot long piece of fabric, a highly absorbent cotton-like material, which may spark a whole new debate over how much oil remained in the Gulf of Mexico this summer. Dr. Sammarco and a team from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) sampled waters two months after BP plugged its crippled well. He was astonished at what he found... n underwater video shot by a LUMCON researcher weeks after the spill showed globs of oil were visible in the water column with the naked eye. ... "My feeling is that it's an underestimate of what was actually there." ... If a canister happened to have captured one of the globs, he notes the NOAA estimates would have skyrocketed.

[OnlinePoker]

1. They showed them dragging the material across the surface

Did they also do subsurface testing at various depths? I'd be curious to know what depths the most oil was found at and what effect the various thermocline layers in the Gulf have on the dispersion of the oil.

[Marnie]

2. And aren't we surprised

Virtually no body believed the governments estimates or the volume of the leak and virtually no body believed their claims of the lack of harmful effects of either the oil or the Corexit.

It is a good thing to keep in mind that the oil is not really dissolved in the water, it is present in many forms like the clouds of goo that have been filmed, the sheets of bacterial mucus have incorporated oil droplets and Corexit, the bodies of marine animals, as sheets or gobs of oil on the bottom, etc. Also it has broken into tiny micro-, and nanodroplets and individual non soluble molecules of various constituents of the crude. Those are not dissolved, they are in suspension, if they are chemically stable they may never dissolve. They will eventually end on the sea bottom or in the bays to be incorporated into animals, fish, grasses etc. or "stored" in the bottom silt, for decades or eons.

[dgibby]

3. If the govt. told me the sun rises in the east, I'd need a second opinion

and proof positive before I'd believe it.

[Generic Other]

5. Sad that we have to feel this way

since they supposedly represent us!

[Karenina]

6. In this case, NO.

They certainly do not. From the beginning I could not fathom how The People were completely unable to stop the gubmint from green-lighting the dumping of corporate toxic inventory into the Gulf. :freak:

[Generic Other]

7. They seem to be the best government BP can buy

And that is sad.

[Generic Other]

4. So alarming!

Thanks for sharing real science. The facts! It is hard when even here at DU, people challenge the veracity of the reports and insist on attacking those who post them.

They are hiding stuff from us. We need to let them no we are on to them!!