Black Tide on Animal Planet right now

[Ray]

It's a special about how people of La. dealt with the oil spill.
Not sure how it will be, but gonna watch it.

[PaulMyers]

I'm at work, you got a way to record it for me?

EVO

[Ray]

I can on the DVR. Not sure how to get it off the DVR and to a tape/disk.
When you get off and I am off, you can come see it here in Lake Charles.

["W"]

I'm sure its a go green....poor people...let's get welfare and oil killed everything,I made 500,000 shrimping last year but can't find my trip tickets because the oil ate them,,,,, BP is the Devil,,,,, you killed 90 sea gulls out of 10 Billion on the coast..... Something in that range... So I will not watch it

[Ray]

They are not crying for money, yet.
They are showing how it was cleaned up.
Dispersants breaks it up so bacteria can eat it faster... ect.
They are showing a few tree huggers.
Just a few 1000 bbls. of dispersant in trillions of bbls. of salt water is very minor.
If they didn't use the dispersant, they would still be fighting the oil.

[Ray]

They are saying that the GOM seafood is the most tested seafood in the world right now. The seafood is clean.

Then I want to know why they don't test chineese and vietnamese seafood before coming into the U.S.

["W"]

Only down fall...it did not kill off another 50,000 seas gulls

[CajunSaint]

All the dispersants did was make the sheen smaller? And not be as visible. Am I wrong? If I am please enlighten me! Ive been out of the loop for a long time.

["W"]

Bacteria in the gulf ate it all up... Which took a week after it was shut down.....

[CajunSaint]

Originally Posted by "W"

Bacteria in the gulf ate it all up... Which took a week after it was shut down.....

Explain please???

[boatdriver]

This was a good show. I thought that these commercial fisherman were being honest, not looking for a handout. As one crabber stated, "$25,000. WHat good is that gonna do for me? Who's gonna pay me 10 years later when there aren't any crabs?" I agree with him. $25,000 is nothing in that time frame. But, on the other hand, he can go out and get another job, if needed. I really think BP paid the tip of the iceberg, so to say, and skipped town. It's there fault. I think they should make it right with the folks down there.

[Austin(boatman's son)]

watchin xgames but i did watch that for bout 10 minutes

[Bluechip]

Originally Posted by boatdriver

This was a good show. I thought that these commercial fisherman were being honest, not looking for a handout. As one crabber stated, "$25,000. WHat good is that gonna do for me? Who's gonna pay me 10 years later when there aren't any crabs?" I agree with him. $25,000 is nothing in that time frame. But, on the other hand, he can go out and get another job, if needed. I really think BP paid the tip of the iceberg, so to say, and skipped town. It's there fault. I think they should make it right with the folks down there.

I agree....

[Top Dawg]

Just saw what they were showing as oil contaminated mud was simply black marsh mud

[booyagasha]

people are still waiting for their money from bp, and what is bp saying? "to end all payments and future payments" it is nothing for a shirmper to pull in 100k a month, (well was)you do the math. truth of the matter is yes, bp oil spill did muck things up, and they sure as hell didnt make everything "whole" like they said.


i understand the saying," dont bite the hand that feeds you".....but damn

[wetaline]

that was a good show. hard to believe it's been over a year.

[PaulMyers]

Originally Posted by Ray

I can on the DVR. Not sure how to get it off the DVR and to a tape/disk.
When you get off and I am off, you can come see it here in Lake Charles.

Thanks Ray, that sounds great. I appreciate it.

EVO

["W"]

their will be no long term effects on Crabs,shrimp or fishing due to this spill..........That is crazy!!! You probably cant even find any oil right now ....With hot summer waters it is gone.......

BP paid more than what was needed to the people who needed it...


I know a guide down there who said this year was the best inshore fishing ever ......

["W"]

Originally Posted by CajunSaint

Explain please???

Scientists Find Oil-Eating Bacteria Plentiful in Deep Gulf Waters



Oil-eating bacteria exist in significant quantities even in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and may be breaking down submerged oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil leak faster than previously believed, scientists are reporting today.
The bacteria were found in a plume of microscopic oil droplets more than 3,000 feet below the surface, in the vicinity of BP’s blown-out well, by a group of scientists led by Terry Hazen, a senior ecologist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Their presence may have been overlooked by other researchers because the variety found in the plume do not seem to be consuming much oxygen from the water column, unlike most oil-digesting bacteria, the scientists said.
In previous surveys of the plume, researchers measured dissolved oxygen levels in the water to determine bacterial activity.
“Conventional methods of estimating bio-degradation, which are based on oxygen levels, may overlook these bugs’ contribution,” the researchers said in a statement.
The discovery adds a new wrinkle to the debate over the fate of submerged oil from BP’s massive well blowout. In recent weeks, independent scientists sharply questioned a federal report estimating that the remaining oil from the spill was degrading quickly in the gulf. Federal scientists pushed back hard, asserting that their estimates were conservative and based on intensive field research and computer modeling.
The latest report, released early by the journal Science to coincide with a conference in Seattle, does not address the amount of oil that remains in the deep ocean or how much oil has been degraded by bacteria. But the findings do indicate that microbial communities in the deep waters of the gulf may be adapting quickly to the presence of oil and could play a major role in breaking down the oil plumes, which radiate for dozens of miles from the BP wellhead.

["W"]

Oil-eating bacteria proliferated below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico this summer, helping to break down and clean up an underwater oil plume that stretched miles from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, according to a study released Tuesday by the journal Science.
The study is the latest update in the ongoing debate over what has happened to the bulk of the 4.9 million barrels of oil that spilled from the well, and it suggests that the oil may be disappearing relatively quickly from the deep-sea environment.
Just last week, researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution confirmed that much of the oil from the spill ended up suspended in a deep-sea cloud near the wellhead, rather than floating to the surface of the water. They released the most precise map yet of a 1.2-mile-wide plume of microscopic oil compounds that floated 3,000 feet below the surface of the water.
But the map was based on data taken in June, before the well was capped. It didn't address what has happened to that underwater oil since the leak stopped, and how much now remains in the ocean. Oil-eating microbes are plentiful in the Gulf of Mexico, helping to break down oil from natural seeps. But no one is sure how fast that breakdown is occurring with the unprecedented amount of oil deep underwater in the Gulf, where the cold temperatures -- about 5 degrees Celsius -- could slow down the process.
In Tuesday's study, microbiologist Terry Hazen and his colleagues at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory looked at the amounts and types of bacteria in the oil plume at the end of May and beginning of June. They found that a type of oil-eating bacteria adapted to the cold water was twice as plentiful inside the oil plume as outside, and that these bacteria -- a newly-discovered species related to the Oceanospirillales -- made up 90 percent of all the bacteria in the oil plume. The researchers also found DNA and fatty acids in the water that are signs of oil breaking down.
They also found that the bacteria were breaking down the oil without depleting the oxygen level in the water as much as expected. That's an important wrinkle, because last week's study by the Woods Hole researchers found that the oxygen supply in the plume water remained high, avoiding the feared deoxygenated "dead zone" harmful to plants and animals. But the new study suggests that despite the fact that oxygen levels remained high in the water, the bacteria were still hard at work.
"The findings are consistent with each other -- which I think is pretty neat to see," says Richard Camilli, a researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the lead author of last week's study.
The new evidence of oil-eating bacteria in the plume adds to the ongoing debate over how fast the deep-sea oil is disappearing. The federal government said earlier this month that such deepwater dispersed oil was biodegrading quickly, and that 75 percent of the spilled oil had been accounted for. Some outside researchers, however, have questioned that conclusion, arguing that the oil is biodegrading more slowly than the government scientists assume. Tuesday's study seems to offer some support for the government's findings.
In fact, Hazen says that he and his team have continued their monitoring throughout the summer, and that as of about three weeks ago the oil plume was no longer detectable.
"We've been out there continuously," he says. "Once the oil flow stopped on July 15, within two weeks we saw most of the plume disappear."
Ian MacDonald, an oceanographer at Florida State University, says that the new study is good news.
"It certainly shows that the microbial community can and is responding to this addition of oil to the deep water," he says.
However, he cautions that many questions remain unanswered -- such as what has happened to the methane released into the water along with the oil, what percentage of the total oil released ended up in this deep-sea plume, and the environmental effects of changing the deep-sea microbial community.