'Frothy Gunk' From Deepwater Horizon Spill Harming Coral

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @03:06AM from the rick-someone-I-think-he-said dept.

sciencehabit writes "The massive oil spill that inundated the Gulf of Mexico in the spring and summer of 2010 severely damaged deep-sea corals more than 11 kilometers from the well site, a sea-floor survey conducted within weeks of the spill reveals. At one site, which hadn't been visited before but had been right in the path of a submerged 100-meter-thick oil plume from the spill, researchers found a variety of corals — most of them belonging to a type of colonial coral commonly known as sea fans — on a 10-meter-by-12-meter outcrop of rock. Many of the corals were partially or completely covered with a brown, fluffy substance that one team member variously calls 'frothy gunk,' 'goop,' and 'snot.'"

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Santorum by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-27 03:08 · Score: 5, Funny

That's why Santorum supports more drilling.
1. Re:Santorum by Black+Parrot · 2012-03-27 03:38 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  That's why Santorum supports more drilling.
  When Santorum hears "Drill, Baby, Drill!", the seafloor isn't the first thing that crosses his mind.
  
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2. Re:Santorum by semi-extrinsic · 2012-03-27 05:46 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I clicked this article just to see how far up the Santorum jokes were. Guess it was too obvious, huh?
  
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Drill baby drill!!! by AngryDeuce · 2012-03-27 03:10 · Score: 1, Funny

What's the worst that could happen?
Frosty Post by Bananatree3 · 2012-03-27 03:14 · Score: 1, Funny

Frothy Gunky post... hey! it's relevant!