Oops! BP Oil Caught in Putrid Plume Prevarication

AUTO CENTRAL - June 8, 2010: One week ago BP Oil denied reports of the existence of giant underwater plumes of oil in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the oil leak. "The oil is on the surface. There aren't any plumes," BP CEO Tony Hayward told The Associated Press.

Well, it appears that BP was wrong again, and/or again guilty of hiding the truth. Reports today are that "vast underwater concentrations of oil sprawling for miles in the Gulf of Mexico" have been found." According to one New York Times report "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's core is 1,100 to 1,300 meters below the surface, they said.

"It's an infusion of oil and gas unlike anything else that has ever been seen anywhere, certainly in human history," said Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia, the expedition leader.

Read the full story at http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/06/08/08greenwire-scientist-awed-by-size-density-of-undersea-oil-98517.html.