Oil in the Gulfstream.

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Reports on TV say the BP oil slick will enter the loop around the keys and around S. Fla. and enter the Gulf-stream moving north.
It seems that anyone making the trip to the Bahamas will have to pass thru that surface oil.
Is that an accurate assessment?.
 
Yeah they do, and IMO they knew it from day one. They just don't want to talk about it.

It's in the Gulf of Mexico... ALL the water in the Gulf that doesn't evaporate eventually goes out via the Gulf Stream and the Straits of Florida. What oil doesn't end up on the Gulf beaches will go out that way too.

Where else can it go??
 
Bet the surface feeding fish and other critters that feed offshore will not be happy. Wonder if fish caught will be a danger to consume?
 
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Originally posted by jmas

Wonder if fish caught will be a danger to consume?

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It'll be a boom to those that light gas from their a$$. Pun intended! :)
 
I'm not calling that but my guess is that shrimp and other seafoods are going to get a lot more expensive!
 
<<..."I'm not calling that but my guess is that shrimp and other seafoods are going to get a lot more expensive!"...>>

Either that, or a lot more "flavorful".
 
There is a lesson to be learned here, drill, drill, drill is not the answer. BP will never cover this cost, those that thinks so are not thinking straight.
Florida's coast line is toast, seems everything up to SC will be toast. How do you put a price on that???? Hey, it may make it up to NY, but the gulf stream is 120 miles of our shores, so no lose here.

I feel bad for you Southerners,and those in the gulf, you may never recover from this.
 
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Originally posted by rduhon

No body knows anything for sure.

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You are correct. It is all speculation. About in the same category as weather forecasting.

The forecasts on damage fall in the same category. Our area here on the Gulf is losing tourists to this ridiculous fear mongering. The news networks have made it seem to the public that all of the Gulf beaches are being fouled.

G

So far there is no oil anywhere near here but some tourists have not heard this and are cancelling their reservations for no purpose.

Some people here think that British Petroleum should be paying for the lost business. I think if anyone should be paying it would be the irresponsible news networks.
 
"Florida's coast line is toast, seems everything up to SC will be toast. How do you put a price on that???? Hey, it may make it up to NY, but the gulf stream is 120 miles of our shores, so no lose here"

This is just the type of irresponsible reporting/statements that I am talking about.

Florida's coastline IS NOT TOAST. As of this time the oil is many miles from this state.

A few tarballs have been found around the keys. At this time it is not even known if they come from this spill. Even if they do, it takes a very large amount of tar balls to "toast" a coast.

George
 
correction... the tar balls found in the Keys have been tested and do not come from the spill!

there is a lot of hype and a lot of political BS: spreading fear to kill offshore drilling.

what i want to know is why nobody is explaining what happens to the oil in the long run... doesn't it naturally break down and disperse with time? do we even know that oil will last long enough to even reach the Fl Keys? will it really affect underwater reef? doesnt' oil float at the surface or does it break down and settle on the bottom?

will it be just a sheen on the water or heavy oil?

with thousands of scientists and experts working on this, why dont' we have any information on what really happen beyond "it will come up the east coast"...
 
Crude oil WILL naturally break down (crude is a NATURAL product and the environment has ways of dealing with it); however it takes quite a while and it can make an awful mess in the meantime.

in 1979 there was a major spill in Mexico when the IXTOC-1 blew out; and with all the hype at the time you'd have thought the Texas beaches were gone forever... Not.
 
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Originally posted by walterv

There is a lesson to be learned here, drill, drill, drill is not the answer. BP will never cover this cost, those that thinks so are not thinking straight.
Florida's coast line is toast, seems everything up to SC will be toast. How do you put a price on that???? Hey, it may make it up to NY, but the gulf stream is 120 miles of our shores, so no lose here.

I feel bad for you Southerners,and those in the gulf, you may never recover from this.

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Hang on Walt. While I don't disagree that "Drill, drill, drill" is not a long term answer.

Counting the whole coast out is not a responsible thing to say. And when people do make those kinds of statement in regards to this spill it's just like what happens after a hurricane when the rest of the country seems to think all of FL is wiped out.

It's my understanding that people even now are canceling their vacations to FL based on the kinds of statements you're making.

I think there is plenty of good information on what could happen with this spill. But no one knows what will happen for sure till it does happen.

So please don't count the whole FL and Eastern coast lines out yet.
 
The surface oil just made landfall at the extreme southern end of Louisiana in the vicinity of Pass a Loutre of the Mississippi River. This is the thick oil that folks associate with a spill. I live approximately 100 NM due north of the wellhead at Mississippi Canyon 252, the source of the spill and we have not seen any oil or oily sheen. The Biloxi Marsh is open for commercial and sport fishing and the Louisiana Department of Health just reopened three areas east of the Mississippi River to oyster dredging. George has it correct, the news business is too busy hyping this to report the facts. The oil spill is a mess, but it will be cleaned up, BP will pay and life will go on. Some of you folks need to turn off the TV every once in a while and not listen to all that crap. Don't turn off CNN, I hold stock in Time-Warner.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/first_signs_of_thick_oil_found.html

When you read the article just remember Bobby Jingle Bells is trying to build up his resume' to run for President 2012 and I'd guess Nungesser is pumping up his image to run for congress or some state wide office.
 
"Observations Indicate a Small Portion of Light Oil Sheen Has Entered the Loop Current

NOAA’s latest observations indicate that a small portion of the oil has reached the Loop Current in the form of light to very light sheens.

In the time it would take for oil to travel to the vicinity of the Florida Straits, any oil would be highly weathered and both the natural process of evaporation and the application of chemical dispersants would reduce the oil volume significantly. However, the oil may get caught in a clockwise eddy in the middle of the gulf, and not be carried to the Florida Straits at all.

The Coast Guard has confirmed that the tar balls collected yesterday in the Florida Keys did not originate with the BP oil spill."
 
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Originally posted by stmbtwle

Yeah they do, and IMO they knew it from day one. They just don't want to talk about it.

It's in the Gulf of Mexico... ALL the water in the Gulf that doesn't evaporate eventually goes out via the Gulf Stream and the Straits of Florida. What oil doesn't end up on the Gulf beaches will go out that way too.

Where else can it go??

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There is more than loop currents. Most that goes into the Northern Gulf will head towards Padre Island, Tx. If you deal with beach trash clean ups on the Northern Gulf Coast, you would know most things that float go West.
The oil will have to go farther South in order to get to the loop currents.
No one knows where the oil will go, that's predicting where Mother Nature will take it.
The Loop Currents are farther offshore, but are never in the same place and never the same speed.
 
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You will not see this story on your Boob Tube, turn it off and read.

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20100520/SPORTS08/5200315/1127

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Those are the kinds of stories all the States that could be affected by the oil need to be pushing.

If they were smart they would perhaps pool their ad dollars and get a good national campaign going to get ahead of the negative stories about what might happen.
 
Counties in Florida are trying to fight the irresponsible reporting.

The Tourist Development Council in my county, Okaloosa, has just released $700k for advertisements to counter the incorrect reporting.

G
 
#1 STOP THE SPILL

Right now everything else is a lot of BS.

Lets get the leak stopped and the mess cleaned up, After that we can blame and sue every body.
 
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