Underwater Nightmare: What BP Does Not Want You to See;

[amborin]

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/25/bp-does-not-want-you-to-see/

".........toxic dispersants, after over 700,000 gallons have been used on the hundred-million-gallon Deepwater Horizon oil blowout. The dispersants have created an invisible toxic cloud of unknown size below the surface, as the federal government lets BP block attempts to monitor the gusher, study the undersea plumes, or learn about the dispersants being used. On Monday, Good Morning America correspondent Sam Champion and Philippe Cousteau Jr., the chief ocean correspondent for Planet Green and grandson of Jacques Cousteau, explored the toxic plumes of dispersed oil floating beneath the waves in the Gulf of Mexico:

This, critics say, is what BP does not want you to see: oil and chemical dispersants swirling together into a toxic soup, forming large plumes under the surface of the water as deep as twenty-five feet, perhaps deeper.

The small droplets of dispersed oil are “capable of passing right into the flesh of fish and birds.” “It’s absolutely disgusting,” Cousteau described. “I think this has got to be one of the most horrible things I’ve ever seen underwater.” Watch it:
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[phantom power]

1. I wonder how many years it will take before Gulf seafood is safe to eat again.

[daleanime]

3. Do you have any kids?

very young ones?:cry: If we are lucky, and hard working, they may live to see it.

[Xenotime]

7. The gulf will be a sea of death for the next 20+ years.

So sad this happened due to the greed of Big Oil.

[Jokinomx]

2. Sad very sad

One thing that was learned in previous oil spills was that you can do more damage to the environment and ecosystems trying to clean up than to allow nature to take over.

I think this is one of those learning moments... as we look back on using these dispersants, we would have been better off allowing the oil to the surface where we can get to it.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. news this morning said the plumes are getting darker...more toxic stuff...really sad

[amborin]

8. i saw that too, more toxic as you said; scarier yet

[Catherina]

5. Rec'd. Link to video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lBQkNgY3bY

[amborin]

9. thanks, and thanks for posting the link as well!

[nashville_brook]

6. k n r

[roamer65]

10. The Gulf will be a dead zone for centuries.