NOAA ROTFS: Oil spill under 100 miles from Tampa Bay, St. Pete, Clearwater

[TheWejdin]

Great i live in largo. Ive been waiting to see some oil. cant wait :P

[MIKEADAMS404]

omg thise is not good ....good bye snook fishing and all the fish fuck you oil spill 

[fal2grace]

thanks much for your ongoing coverage of this.

[MrDarrylR]

From the NOAA offshore forcast:

Satellite imagery analysis continues to show narrow bands of oil to the SE and ESE of the main slick. Recent overflights to this region reported only non-contiguous, colorless sheens continuing in narrow bands as seen in the

satellite imagery. Trajectories for remaining observed oil within this region suggest these scattered sheens willmcontinue to be entrained in a large clockwise eddy (Eddy Franklin) that has pinched off the main Loop Current.

[MrDarrylR]

There are about 600 natural seeps, but presumably this is NOAA's Real-Time Ocean Forecast System predicting spread of some sheens caught in an eddy of the Gulf loop. Hopefully this eddy will migrate westward as they generally do and take the oil with it.

[1mealperday]

more than one leak?

[2unearth]

@1mealperday yes there is more than one.

[1mealperday]

@2unearth But it appears no one wants to know or admit to it. I worry this may turn into a worse problem UNDER the seafloor.