Reply #130: It already IS a global travesty - the oil is in the "loop current", moving into the Atlantic Ocean [View All]

[Major Hogwash]

When "oil plumes" were found a mile deep or so last week, they were estimated to be as long as 10 miles long, 2 miles wide, and 300 feet thick - oil globs clinging to each other like a big, wet, shoestring deep in the Gulf of Mexico.
Dozens of them.

Those oil plumes are already starting to drift around the cape, or the horn (if you prefer)of Florida around and into the Florida Keys.

They not only need to stop the output from that broken "geyser" of a pipe - they need to suck up those oil plumes. Now, today.
Before the ocean currents along the eastern coastlines carry those oil plumes even farther up the eastern seaboard.

Once out into the Atlantic, they won't be able to reach those oil plumes to suck the oil plumes up into recovery ships because the water is much colder there, the oil plumes will sink farther down into the depths of the ocean, and the currents will carry them towards Europe!! As they approach Europe the wave action will begin to stir them causing them to begin to break up into smaller plumes that will rise to the top a little faster, and will cover their shores, just like what is happening here in the Gulf.

We are talking about 30 days of 3 million gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf.
This is a much larger disaster than the Exxon Valdez - 10 times larger.
So far!!

This leak is like a break in the geographical plate of the continental shelf, the oil is pressurized from the ocean floor itself!!!
That's why it is streaming out so fast.

It's like a volcano underwater -- of oil!!