GreenPeace - Arctic Sunrise Tour - to the gulf

[tabatha]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenpeaceusa09/sets/72157624572207069/with/4895725493/

[FirstLight]

1. I'd like to see more

detailed comments with the pics. am I seeing something beautiful but dying? ar is all the oil nice and "gone"...? ya, sure.

[tabatha]

2. You can see comments at the Flickr link.

I did not want to post just the Flickr link without giving an idea of what it contained.

I did not want to paste the GreenPeace comments because of copyright. I thought the photos are incredibly beautiful --- and that others would be interested.

Here is the comment for the Barrel Sponge

"Barrel Sponge

A view of soft corals, barrel sponges, a school of french grunt fish (Haemulon flavolineatum) and sergeant majors (Abudefduf saxatilis) near Looe Key north of Key West, Fla. Aug. 15, 2010. The first phase of a Greenpeace expedition to the Gulf of Mexico goes underwater to examine the reefs in the Florida Keys. Several teams of independent scientists will join the crew on board the Arctic Sunrise for the next three months, to conduct a series of scientific research programs that will further understanding of the impacts of both oil and chemical dispersants on the Gulf ecosystem in the aftermath of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A BP leased drilling platform exploded April 20 killing 11 workers and causing a leak of millions of barrels of oil from a wellhead one mile deep 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Finally capped in August, the leak was treated with a million gallons of Corexit, a toxic dispersant. by Todd Warshaw"