{"id":20228,"date":"2010-06-09T09:01:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T09:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/scientist_awed_by_size_density_of_undersea_oil_plume_in_gulf\/"},"modified":"2010-06-09T09:01:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T09:01:40","slug":"scientist_awed_by_size_density_of_undersea_oil_plume_in_gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20228","title":{"rendered":"Scientist Awed by Size, Density of Undersea Oil Plume in Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vast underwater concentrations of oil sprawling for miles in the Gulf of Mexico from the damaged, crude-belching BP PLC well are unprecedented in &#8220;human history&#8221; and threaten to wreak havoc on marine life, a team of scientists said today, a finding confirmed for the first time by federal officials.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers aboard the F.G. Walton Smith vessel briefed reporters on a two-week cruise in which they traced an underwater oil plum 15 miles wide, 3 miles long and about 600 feet thick. The plume&#8217;s core is 1,100 to 1,300 meters below the surface, they said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an infusion of oil and gas unlike anything else that has ever been seen anywhere, certainly in human history,&#8221; said Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia, the expedition leader.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/gwire\/2010\/06\/08\/08greenwire-scientist-awed-by-size-density-of-undersea-oil-98517.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vast underwater concentrations of oil sprawling for miles in the Gulf of Mexico from the damaged, crude-belching BP PLC well are unprecedented in &#8220;human history&#8221; and threaten to wreak havoc on marine life, a team of scientists said today, a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20228\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,589,149,140,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}