will the oil slick change the way we snorkle for itams

I personally think it will be the worst oil spill in history.  A friend called me and said the ocean is turning red
from the chemicals that BP is pumping in the hole in order to plug it.  Additionally he said Goldman Sachs
liquidated 43% of their stock in BP just prior to the blowout.  What a lucky move.....It is sad that when you snorkle
you might only see dead m [amen]arine previously living wild marine life.  We all hope that the gulf will recover from this manmade disaster.

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I'm still confident it will clean itself up quick enough once the flow is stopped.  Even if we look at the worst case estimates of 29,000,000 gallons of oil spilled so far, it doesn't come close to the IXTOC 1 spill that occurred in the gulf (it started 31 years ago today and took 10 months to cap), dumping over 300,000,000 gallons in the gulf.  3,000,000 gallons of it found it's way to 167 miles of US beaches, but they were cleaned up within a matter of a couple of months.  This is a light, sweet volatile crude that isn't going to stick around for long.  It's not like the heavy sour crude that was dumped from the Exxon Valdiz.  Most of this will evaporate in short order.  Yes, we'll have some marsh grasses and some wildlife killed, but it's not going to be the environmental disaster that the press is making it out to be.  Two months after the well is capped everything will be back to normal and everybody will have forgotten about it.

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Well a hurricane or big tropical storm would certainly help assist in breaking this stuff up and dispersing/evaporating it, but I'd not want to live withing 20 miles of the shoreline in a hurricane with all that oil getting blown around.  Cars, houses, everything will end up with a thin greasy film on it for some time after the storm.

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I am setting here a 100 yards from the gulf and I am not worried about the spill unless we get a storm. As Bigwater said nature will take care of it. Some marsh grasses, birds, fish., and oyster beds will be hurt but they will renew their self. Were a storm may help I don't want to be in the eye of that one.
This is not the first oil spill the gulf has dealt with yes the biggest and that's the reason for all the media  BS

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Ixtoc 1 that was a big one need to do some more reading on that one. Thanks Bigwater

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