Deepwater mystery: Oil loose in the Gulf

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100531/ap_on_re_us/oil_spill_mysteries_of_the_deep

Streaming video of oil pouring from the seafloor and images of dead, crude-soaked birds serve as visual bookends to the natural calamity unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico.

But independent scientists and government officials say another disaster is playing out in slow motion — and out of public view — in the mysterious depths between the gusher and the coast, a world inhabited by sperm whales, gigantic jellyfish and diminutive plankton.

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"Every fish and invertebrate contacting the oil is probably dying. I have no doubt about that," said Prosanta Chakrabarty, a Louisiana State University fish biologist.

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Yet what happens there can ripple across the food chain. Every night the denizens of the deep make forays to shallower depths to eat — and be eaten by — other fish, according to marine scientists who describe it as the largest migration on earth.

from the bottom of the food chain upwards starting with the loss of planton. Eventually it will affect the birds too due to food shortage. :(

65% of our oxygen comes from ocean life. The other 35% comes from the forests that we're so hellbent on destroying.

Fuck. We are using the Air Force to deliver it...