What Happened To The Oil? - Page 2

Diesel · 11-30-2011, 12:25 AM

That is not a picture of Macondo oil. I have personally done underwater surveys near the Macondo well and saw no oil. Now there may be some, just displaced, but as far as a storm depositing it on our beaches that is preposterous. Wave action does not have an effect thousands of feet deep. Sorry...it just doesn't.

Duke S · 11-30-2011, 01:08 PM

We (UWF) have sampled sediments across the shelf and sediments from near the well up into DeSoto Canyon, also along the shoreline. Some oil still in those deep sediments, (which, as Diesel says, will not come our way), but none up on the shelf to be found. A few tar pies still on/in the beaches, but it is highly degraded stuff. Ask any diesel or aviation mechanic about slime and sludge from microbes eating oil....

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11-30-2011, 12:25 AM	#11
Diesel Senior Member Trigger Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Perdido Key, FL Posts: 271	That is not a picture of Macondo oil. I have personally done underwater surveys near the Macondo well and saw no oil. Now there may be some, just displaced, but as far as a storm depositing it on our beaches that is preposterous. Wave action does not have an effect thousands of feet deep. Sorry...it just doesn't.

11-30-2011, 01:08 PM	#12
Duke S Senior Member Mingo Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 181	We (UWF) have sampled sediments across the shelf and sediments from near the well up into DeSoto Canyon, also along the shoreline. Some oil still in those deep sediments, (which, as Diesel says, will not come our way), but none up on the shelf to be found. A few tar pies still on/in the beaches, but it is highly degraded stuff. Ask any diesel or aviation mechanic about slime and sludge from microbes eating oil....

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