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The plume was located more than a kilometer below the surface. I don't think Corexit sprayed on the surface would reach that far down the water column. "Crystal
by kijin 15y ago
The plume was located more than a kilometer below the surface. I don't think Corexit sprayed on the surface would reach that far down the water column. "Crystal clear" is more likely to be a result of high dilution. Just like groundwater is not a river of water under the ground (it's actually rock with a bit of water filling the cracks), an oil plume is not a river of oil in the sea.
- nerdtalker 15y agoRemember that in the case of the gulf oil spil, Corexit was used in a way that it wasn't ever specifically engineered for (based on their own datasheets for 9500). Instead, it was directly inserted into the stream just a meter or so above the wellhead, underwater. There are videos of this from the ROV streams, and corroborated by other sources (eg NYT: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/impact-of-gulf-spills-underwater-dispersants-is-examined/ http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/impact-of-gulf-spi... Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill#Use_of_dispersants_deep_under_water http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill#Use... ) The result was formation of these subsurface plumes that the author talks about.