Oil Washes ashore on Petit Bois Island

[Vincentc]

I just received an email from Mark Miller who was on Petit Bois yesterday. He sent me the attached site which contains video and still images of the oil as it washed ashore.

http://gallery.primofish.com/2010/Charters/100629_USDA_Petit_Bois/

Petit Bois is about 8 nm South of the Mississippi coastline and the East end of the island is on the Mississippi/Alabama line. Just East of Petit Bois is Dauphin Island.

Regards,

 

[saltshaker]

Vincent,
The link isn't working and no site found when I cut and paste it.

 

[Angela]

Vincent,
The link isn't working and no site found when I cut and paste it.

Remove the < and > from each end when you cut and paste. It worked for me that way.

 

[Yacht Jim]

I sure hope the Keys are saved. Who knows where this stuff is headed

 

[Boatsb]

The gulf stream will take it up the east coast and across the Atlantic to England where they will scoop it up and have saved the shipping back at BP headquarters.

 

[Angela]

The gulf stream will take it up the east coast and across the Atlantic to England where they will scoop it up and have saved the shipping back at BP headquarters.

LOL If that stuff did make its way all the way there in a significant form, that would be near justice.

 

[Vincentc]

Since shortly after 1990, the feds have collected taxes on every bbl of crude brought into this country to develop a system of responding to oil spills. I suspect that is a rather sizeable amount of money.

Any idea on how that money was spent and/or why we do not have the capability 20 years later, to scoop up the oil before it reaches the Mississippi coast line, much less the British Isles?

This is not intended as a rhetorical question.
Regards,