Deep-Water Dive Reveals Spilled Oil On Gulf Floor

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Some of the clams look happy as clams. But when the Alvin scrapes the bottom, we discover we're not actually sitting on the usual dark gray mud that forms the seafloor.

"There's oil on the bottom," Joye says. "If you look at the camera, you can see the brown coloration."

We see this brown stuff on coral fans, hit like pine trees along a dusty dirt road. More slimy brown stuff hangs over some of the odd formations of frozen natural gas here half a mile below the surface. Crabs here normally pick at worms that actually live in this methane ice.

"The crabs don't look healthy. See all the dark spots and lesion looking things? That's not normal," she says.

http://www.npr.org/2010/11/29/131660871/deep-water-dive-reveals-oil-on-bottom-of-gulf

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1. Recommend

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2. Our local supermarket had gulf shrimp in the seafood case recently.

It had what looked like burn marks on the shells. It didn't look healthy at all - so much so I was surprised to see it out. I'll bet they lost money on that batch of seafood.

Meanwhile, only a moron would be surprised by this NPR report. Sadly, morons walk among us.

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3. Duh!!!

Did we think the oil just disappeared? What are we all two years old so that when someone plays peek-a-boo, we really think they don't exist when we can't see them?

For the love of the imaginary deity, I swear Americans have to be the dumbest nation that ever existed.