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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Update on Gulf Oil Spill
	Date:	4/15/2011 9:33:01 AM

Below is from an article about the lessons learned from the spill. I particularly like this one because it proves what I have been saying all along about the long-term impact of the spill and the efficacy of natural attenuation processes. So head to the gulf this summer and fear not....and eat the shrimp.....and swim in the water.

5. In the first few weeks after the blowout, BP CEO Tony Hayward was excoriated in the news media for stating that the “Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean” and “the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest.” It now appears that he was right. The Gulf oil spill is, indeed, much less of a calamity than most people expected. Said one environmental scientist in late July: “Mother Nature is doing what she is supposed to be doing and we’re losing most of [the spilled oil] to microbial degradation in the open ocean.” By early August, an oil slick that had been the size of Kansas had all but disappeared, idling hundreds of skimmers.