Oily sea floor. - Polidicks

Scientists have found a thick layer of oil on the sea floor stretching for miles in all directions thereby proving we are well on our way to destroying yet another ecosystem on our fragile planet. Cheers BP. "Scientists on a research vessel in the Gulf of Mexico are finding a substantial layer of oily sediment stretching for dozens of miles in all directions. Their discovery suggests that a lot of oil from the Deepwater Horizon didn't simply evaporate or dissipate into the water — it has settled to the seafloor. The Research Vessel Oceanus sailed on Aug. 21 on a mission to figure out what happened to the more than 4 million barrels of oil that gushed into the water. Onboard, Samantha Joye, a professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia, says she suddenly has a pretty good idea about where a lot of it ended up. It's showing up in samples of the seafloor, between the well site and the coast. "I've collected literally hundreds of sediment cores from the Gulf of Mexico, including around this area. And I've never seen anything like this," she said in an interview via satellite phone from the boat. Joye describes seeing layers of oily material — in some places more than 2 inches thick — covering the bottom of the seafloor. "It's very fluffy and porous. And there are little tar balls in there you can see that look like microscopic cauliflower heads," she says. It's very clearly a fresh layer. Right below it she finds much more typical seafloor mud. And in that layer, she finds recently dead shrimp, worms and other invertebrates." Source: [url]http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129782098&ps=cprs[/url] Also, if there's already a thread on this. Sorry. Search is still disabled.

Wow, this is shitty. inb4 BUT OIL FLOATS HURR

BUT OIL FLOATS HURR /c

[QUOTE=teh pirate;24874369]Wow, this is shitty. inb4 BUT OIL FLOATS HURR[/QUOTE] The only thing floating now is dead fish.

[QUOTE=teh pirate;24874369]inb4 BUT OIL FLOATS HURR[/QUOTE] But BP wants to be [i]dense[/i] about their oil, so they can't float.

Oil sinks. It happens all over the world naturally when oil seeps from the floor. It comes up, floats around for awhile, then sinks back down and get's absorbed into the ground to start over again. Generally a million or so (possibly more) gallons seep [I]worldwide[/I], so it's a rather natural thing. The big problem is, the BP disaster is a seperate event and leaked millions of gallons in a single area, so you got more than a natural amount on the floor. Not much we can do about it now though, so just deal with it. [editline]11:34PM[/editline] This was meant to be the first post. Guess I'm not fast enough.

[QUOTE=OvB;24874385]Oil sinks. It happens all over the world naturally when oil seeps from the floor. It comes up, floats around for awhile, then sinks back down and get's absorbed into the ground to start over again. Generally a million or so (possibly more) gallons seep [I]worldwide[/I], so it's a rather natural thing. The big problem is, the BP disaster is a seperate event and leaked millions of gallons in a single area, so you got more than a natural amount on the floor. Not much we can do about it now though, so just deal with it. [editline]11:34PM[/editline] This was meant to be the first post. Guess I'm not fast enough.[/QUOTE] Kind of disheartening to see that even you've given up hope. :geno:

[QUOTE=teh pirate;24874406]Kind of disheartening to see that even you've given up hope. :geno:[/QUOTE] As of right now, there's not really much we could even do about it apart from vacuuming the ocean floor, which could be just as damaging as the oil, if not more. Dagging big things along the seafloor is never a good idea(you could stir up sediment, detritus, organisims, etc that are within the top layers of the floor, which could pollute the water and cause spikes in harmful chemicals. Or you could break apart entire environments by running over them) . Which is what it would take to vacuum efficient amounts. What we need to do is deal with the stuff we can see, and the stuff drifting around in the water column. We should have been doing way more in terms of damage control from the day we heard a rig exploded. There's no reverse button, so we have to deal with the results of our inaction. In this case the potential loss of miles of seafloor. I'm not happy about that at all.

What an oily situation

[QUOTE=soderholm13;24874482]What an oily situation[/QUOTE] This whole ordeal gives me that sinking feeling.

what about trowing the seat floor? not foot after foot they would do for shipping canals but more of a scraping of how ever many inches or feet that the oil has settled upon?

[QUOTE=surfur;24874507]what about trowing the seat floor? not foot after foot they would do for shipping canals but more of a scraping of how ever many inches or feet that the oil has settled upon?[/QUOTE] Fishing Trawlers are pretty destructive to coral reefs and the such, but coral really wouldn't be an issue here because the Gulf really doesn't have much(except around Florida). I'm having a hard time thinking if trawling the oil would be better or worse than leaving it. If you leave the oil, things will die until it seeps under. If you trawl it, you will catch many fish as by-catch and stir up potentially deadly chemicals that natural seep in the ground too. Sorry it took awhile to respond, I was busy with something.

Don't be so negative, BP just want to share their oil with everything.

[QUOTE=UnidentifiedFlyingTard;24874899]Don't be so negative, BP just want to share their oil with everything.[/QUOTE] Sharing is caring, right?

[QUOTE=soderholm13;24874482]What an oily situation[/QUOTE] Slick.

So exactly how much money did BP lose from this? It must be in the billions now.

Reality check here guys, BP wasn't really responsible for the fucking chemicals, it was our own damn government. I blame Barack Obama personally.

GodDAMNIT BP Thank you for fucking up our entire planet.