Sentences with phrase «undersea oil plumes»

Now marine scientists who recently returned from a research cruise in the Gulf of Mexico say they have preliminary evidence that a new technique using sonar may be able to track undersea oil plumes far faster and better, although they caution that it is too soon to say whether the technique will succeed.

British Petroleum has created a 22 mile long undersea oil plume, measured as «dispersed» beneath the ocean's surface, stretching from the wellhead, toward Mobile Alabama.

Not exact matches

In the St. Petersburg Times, Craig Pittman has this scathing report on how the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration attempted to silence scientists who discovered the vast undersea plumes of dispersed oil in the Gulf:

Preliminary results from experiments done by University of South Florida scientists on the toxicity of microscopic drops of oil in the undersea plumes from the BP spill show that they may be more toxic than previously believed.