Pensacola: BP targets submerged oil

BP cleanup contractors said they will be stepping up efforts in coming weeks to collect tons of buried oil and tar beneath the surface of beaches and waterways in Escambia County.

During a boat tour of Pensacola Bay and Perdido Key on Sunday, Joe Waller, BP’s Pensacola division supervisor for oil spill cleanup, said cleanup contractors are facing new challenges while determining how best to collect deposits of oil and tar that were found submerged at Pensacola Pass near Fort McRee last month.

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Joseph Pursley, BP’s Florida branch environmental coordinator, said the submerged oil was deposited during the oil spill by strong currents coming through Pensacola Pass from the Gulf. “As the oil came in, it got pounded into the beach, laid down, and then slid back to where it is now,” Pursley said.

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To minimize environmental damage, the current plan is for commercial divers to collect the oil by hand using special mesh bags that allow water to drain but contain most of the oil and tar.

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prohibiting clean-up workers from digging deeper than 6 inches.

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:cry:

and I wonder how many divers will sign up

Makes one wonder if all the spilled oil is simply moving with the tides just below the surface.

and some unemployed divers might need work.

Scientists Continue to Pander to BP; One “Researcher” Claims Manhattan-Size Oil Plume Simply Disappeared

The debate over toxic dispersant use in the Gulf will continue for years, and one of the “pro use” arguments is that it was the lesser of two evils. Harlan Kirgan from the the Mississippi Press has a story on part of that argument, with one “researcher” saying one of the enormous oil plumes in the Gulf has most likely disappeared.

“This was a gigantic plume,” Terry Hazen, a professor at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, told the Press. “You couldn’t see it or smell it, but it was the size of Manhattan.”

Remember, this is the type of plume that NOAA and other official sources initially said didn’t exist…until they had to change their tune in the face of overwhelming evidence.

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Look, it’s important to be aware that there will be a lot of these casual rosy predictions coming down the pike, and for the most part, they’re relatively harmless and easily dismissed on a case-by-case basis. But cumulatively, this kind of nonsense can become more of an issue. BP will accumulate this blather, package it as a sort of consensus, then use it for PR purposes. Here’s how this bunk will play out of BP’s spin machine: “Scientists say spill’s impact will last no longer than three years.”

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roaming how and who knows where. Might want to get those too.

then did but disappeared?

and I doubt we've heard the last of them.

It will wash in and out for years.

I mean how many gallons does 17,000 pounds represent? And if this is just one area , how many more pounds can we estimate must be floating around down there?