BP spill and some other questions...

Dispersants sank a lot of it, its probably just sitting on the bottom of the GOM. Shorelines and animal life soaked up untold gallons of oil. Millions of gallons for sure. Long term effects are probably not good as far as the critter food chain is concerned. We will all most likely die of cancer. Of note, restaurants and bars all along Mississippi and Alabama coasts profited quite a bit from the whole ordeal; some people deserved retribution and didn't get it, others didn't deserve it and made "bank". So it goes.

There has been a dead zone for years at the mouth of the river. Why not the GOM as well?

BP got off too easy I say. They will not miss a beat.

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And I've never been able to find out just exactly WHAT caused the fire on the platform that started this whole disaster?

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Short story a lot of people did some short cuts. Blowout occurred & when the gas found the engine room the fire erupted. There is a video put together from Discovery channel or history channel that is pretty accurate. The names are the folks that was there but the faces are not them. There is a toolpusher on it that tried to say the negative test was BS & a good friend of mine

For the lucky few that went into the Biloxi Marsh during the fishing moratorium, it was something very special. Not only were the fish there, they were there in huge numbers. With commercial fishing closed the ecosystem exploded with life in a very short amount of time.

While I think the effects of the spill will not be clear anytime soon, I am willing to bet they are far worse than anticipated. However, judging from what I saw during the moratorium, I think our abuse of the fishery is exponentially worse.