Oil spill....the outlook for recovery is good

[Jumptrout51]

The 1979 Ixtoc Mexico oil spill south of Texas was considered devastating.
In 3 short years their Gulf of Campeche returned to normal.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/23/1 ... g-oil.html

[Redbelly]

It will be a long 3 years.
Oil spotted 46 miles due south of Destin in the last hour. Currents and winds not favorable.

Hope the report is false.

[Jumptrout51]

I trust the experts. Not doomsayers.
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/many_gu ... ay_be.html

[rocket]

First good news I've read...we'll see.

[Dubble Trubble]

Yeah, but the news media would rather you think the sky is falling and stay glued to their 45 minutes of ads and 15 minutes of OH MY GOD!

Also, did anyone notice that NATURAL oil gushes out in the gulf at the rate of about 2 supertankers a year....but you won't hear that one on the Talking Heads shows.....

Why? They can't blame anyone....

Dubble

[Reel Cowboy]

I'm all for staying updated on information but you can't let it occupy your whole day. My suggestion would be to go fishing or boating or whatever and enjoy yourself.

[Vitz]

I trust the experts. Not doomsayers.
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/many_gu ... ay_be.html

I'm not a Chicken Little either, but that article is from May 10, almost one month ago. That's 18,354,000 gallons ago (23 days x 19,000 barrels @ 42 gallons per barrell). Even the author of the article says that "if the leak gets much worse, we may get a lot of oil." Does 18+ million gallons sound like a lot to you? It does to me.

[Jumptrout51]

Vitz...you are obviously missing the point.
I will explain it slowly so that you can understand it.

AFTER...THE...OIL...SPILL...IS...CONTAINED...THE...RECOVERY...PROGNOSIS...IS...GOOD.

[Good Times]

Contain baby Contain!

[robbankston]

So looking on the brighter side of this I was wondering. Where will all the displaced wildlife go? I know some have and will die but not all of them. Where will the refugees go? Maybe Big Bend will be getting quite a few of them and may make for some interesting fishing in the near future...Just a thought.

[Browning Slayer]

Guys, I was introduced to St Marks 16 years ago and I feel for you all! I've been following this spill on a daily basis and it has started to consume me. I've got a 2 year old I plan on introducing the St Marks experience too and I just hope he won't be affected by this by the time I plan on taking him. I just couldn't imagine not being able to show him the sunrise over the East river as we ride out. We say prayers to your enchanted coast daily. The Chandeleur Islands I so cherish are already consumed.

JT, I hope you're right!

[Vitz]

Vitz...you are obviously missing the point.
I will explain it slowly so that you can understand it.

AFTER...THE...OIL...SPILL...IS...CONTAINED...THE...RECOVERY...PROGNOSIS...IS...GOOD.

The article you cited to is about some LSU professor saying that what we're seeing on the surface of the Gulf isn't oil but floating mats of biological material. The article is obviously out-of-date some 18+ million gallons, oops wait now it's 24 days which means its now 19+ million gallons of oil, later. And we are definately seeing oil on the surface.

But, to your point (which that article did not make), I agree. The Gulf will recover. It did after the Ixtoc spill and it will after the Deepwater Horizon spill. How long it takes and how many people's livelihoods are destroyed in the meantime, remains to be seen.

[boggob]

• Current projections estimate Deepwater Horizon’s discharge at 12,000 to 19,000 barrels per day.

http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com ... 31/569235/

[Jumptrout51]

1. The article to which you are referring clearly states the compounds sent to him to analyze are not oil or petro;eum based at all.
2. The intent of my original post is to bring light to a expected speedy recovery once containment is achieved.

As the studies extended into a second year, scientists noticed how fast the marine environment recovered, helped by naturally occurring microbes that feasted on the oil and degraded it.

Perhaps due to those microbes, aquatic life along the shoreline in Texas had returned to normal within three years - even as tar balls and tar mats remained along the beaches, sometimes covered by sand, according to Wes Tunnell, a marine biologist at the Harte Research Institute of Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi.

"We were really surprised," Lizarraga said. "After two years, the conditions were really almost normal."

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/23/1 ... z0pored4fg