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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (77931)	6/10/2010 10:17:21 AM
From: manalagi	Respond to of 149317

The media has the entire gulf coast completely covered with oil If some idiot drops a torch, will the entire gulf be on fire? An inferno?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (77931)	6/10/2010 10:19:57 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 149317

They don't tell you it's not all from here. Doesn't fit the narrative. The Strange Case of Station 01 By JUSTIN GILLIS When the government and university researchers confirmed the existence of underwater plumes, or layers of dispersed oil in the Gulf of Mexico, on Tuesday, their report included a puzzling piece of information. On its way to take samples near the leaking well, the University of South Florida’s research boat, Weatherbird II, stopped at a site that is 142 nautical miles, or 163 statute miles, southeast of the well. That spot was chosen so the scientists could see if the deep plumes of oil might be moving into the loop current, the powerful flow of warm water that loops through the Gulf of Mexico and then passes by the Florida Keys on its way to join the Gulf Stream. The scientists did indeed find dissolved oil in the water samples they took at this site, labeled in their report as Station 01. The levels were extremely low; still, that makes a a case that the oil has moved 163 miles from the well toward the loop current, no? Not so fast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration carried out a procedure known as chemical fingerprinting on the Station 01 oil and found that it did not match oil coming from the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Some scientists have raised questions about whether the chemical fingerprinting is accurate, but if you trust it, that means that very low levels of oil are entering the water near the loop current from some source other than the gushing well to the northwest. Neither NOAA nor the University of South Florida had a good explanation for the finding, except to point out that oil leaks into the gulf from all sorts of sources, including millions of gallons a year from natural seeps. “There are continuous releases in small quantities in a variety of locations,” said Steven Murawski, a NOAA scientist. For now, the origin of the Station 01 oil remains a mystery. Perhaps the finding points up, once again, how little background knowledge we have about the normal situation in the Gulf of Mexico. That is going to make it harder to establish how much damage the disaster has done and to assess BP and other companies for the damage. green.blogs.nytimes.com