Underwater+Plumes

Ahsan Dale __Underwater Oil Plumes__

The underwater plumes are a difficult topic among the scientists. This is because the density is lighter than water, but from the top you see a certain amount of oil. But in reality there is much more oil under the surface is huge plumes. Most scientists are baffled and cannot explain why this is so. But the reason there giant plumes of oil is because BP has sprayed Corexit into the water and the broken wellhead. Corexit is a type of dispersant. It breaks down the oil into little pieces of oil and mixes it with the water. This gives it the appearance of being a little spill when in actuality, the fish are digesting it and dying. this also has a dangerous effect o human being of high toxicity to humans. This shows the underwater oil plume originating from a broken oil tank cap. There is no real estimate on how much oil has gushed out of the tank. This is a picture of the wellhead that is broken and now leaking oil into the water: The density of the oil is changed when the dispersant Corexit is added to the mix. The little beads of oil become heavier than the water and float under the surface where the current can take it wherever it wants. T   hen the problem becomes 2x worse because not only are you infecting the underwater life but you spread it to other non-affected areas. As of last week, BP had sprayed 830,000 gal. of the dispersant Corexit on the surface of the Gulf and into the busted wellhead. The chemical causes oil to break apart and drop to mid-depths, where it's free to float where the currents carry it. Given the rate at which oil has been spilling since April 20, the 250,000 bbl. estimated to be on the surface of the Gulf cannot possibly account for all that's been leaked, even if you include what's been burned off or has evaporated away on its own.

As for how they are finding the plumes,