No nothing to see here on the Gulf.

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In places the layer of oil and dead animals is 10cm thick

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill “devastated” life on and near the seafloor, a marine scientist has said.
Studies using a submersible found a layer, as much as 10cm thick in places, of dead animals and oil, said Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia.
Knocking these animals out of the food chain will, in time, affect species relevant to fisheries.
She disputed an assessment by BP’s compensation fund that the Gulf of Mexico will recover by the end of 2012.
Millions of barrels of oil spewed into the sea after a BP deepwater well ruptured in April 2010.
Assessments of the clean-up effort have focused on the surface oil, but much oil remains at depth
Professor Joye told the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Washington that it may be a decade before the full effects on the Gulf are apparent.
She said they concluded the layers had been deposited between June and September 2010 after it was discovered that no sign of sealife from samples taken in May remained.
Professor Joye and her colleagues used the Alvin submersible to explore the bottom-most layer of the water around the well head, known as the benthos.
“The impact on the benthos was devastating,” she told BBC News.
“Filter-feeding organisms, invertebrate worms, corals, sea fans – all of those were substantially impacted – and by impacted, I mean essentially killed.
“Another critical point is that detrital feeders like sea cucumbers, brittle stars that wander around the bottom, I didn’t see a living (sea cucumber) around on any of the wellhead dives. They’re typically everywhere, and we saw none.”
Organisms on the seafloor stimulate the activity of micro-organisms and oxygenate the sediments, two tasks at the bottom of the aquatic food chain that will inevitably have longer-term effects on species nearer the surface – including the ones we eat.
Professor Joye noted that after the Exxon Valdez spill, it took several years before it became clear that the herring industry had been destroyed.
As such, she disagrees with the assessment in February, by the administrator of BP’s $20bn compensation fund, that the Gulf of Mexico will have recovered from the spill by the end of 2012.
“The Gulf is resilient,” she said.
“I do believe that it will recover from this insult, but I don’t think it’s going to recover fully by 2012.
“I think it’s going to be 2012 before we begin to really see the fisheries implications and repercussions from this.”

My take: For anyone to say we will be fine is an insult to our intelligence. The Eco system is delicately balanced.
We have already killed much of the Gulf. It’s now a dead zone in certain areas. The ocean floor is still covered by the goo. We have changed things possibly for 50 years down the road. Perhaps some things forever. I Blame our Government as much as I do BP. We let it happen. Even now with all we know about how things are done, we really haven’t changed a damn thing as to ow we pretend to make things safer. You have to ask yourselves, did those workers die in vain. Just a causality of big business. No, things are not right, hell we can’t even make BP come through with their promises to compensate the people of the Gulf. Seems our Government has once again forgotten the people of the coast. It is a wonder why more people have not lost faith in our leaders. Let us not forget on whose watch this happened on. Seems simple to me, you broke it you own it. Meanwhile those asshole commercials are being shown on TV again. The ones with that horrid shill of a woman telling us the merits of drilling for oil and gas. She should wear a sign saying “In Koch We Believe”.

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