Gusher Saturday
The best news today comes from Dr Jeff Masters who writes that indications are that the oil slick isn’t moving towards shore with the volume you would expect from the higher than normal Spring tides, and the on-shore winds that are creating the waves that are over-topping the containment barriers. Dr. Masters thinks the shape of the bottom may be creating an eddy that is keeping the bulk of the oil off shore.
The spill is spreading out, generally to the east, which isn’t good news for my beaches. Hopefully the wind will shift.
CNN has set up an aggregator for for news on the gusher, and, as I noted earlier, here’s NOAA’s National Ocean Service official site on the DEEPWATER HORIZON Incident and NASA’s Earth Observatory’s satellite images of the oil.
