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How Gulf Oil Spill Estimates Got It So Wrong

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Uploaded by on Jun 23, 2011

June 23, 2011 — Marine oil spills are usually measured by the amount of oil floating on the surface. But the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, from a deep-sea well, required a different approach. Find out how one fluid-dynamics expert caused estimates to rise sharply practically overnight. © 2011 National Geographic

Funded in part by NSF.

Field producing and videography by Fritz Faerber.

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  • I still can't believe that happened and that it took them that long to fix the problem.

  • @OnShoreGuide That's not 5 million gallons... It's 5 million barrels (210,000,000 gallons).

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  • Google Aljazeera for "No end in sight for oil in the Gulf of Mexico - Fresh oil seepages raise questions about further problems with BP's damaged oil well."

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  • OH! Fucken come on! The shrimpers down in that gulf have been destroying that water for the good part of 60 years. Dredging all kinds of by-catch and killing it all. 10 pounds of shrimp and 200 pounds of by-catch!!!!! Oil drilling never killed 1/1000th of the oceans creatures like commercial fishing. GET FUCKING REAL!

  • what a fukn waste\

    

  • are you saying 5 million barrels a day?

  • Each barrel goes for around $100 a barrel as of this time last year, saying that the price increased, that means it is over $500,000,000, yes, half of one billion, in oil had spilled out into the gulf. Talk about pay cuts.

  • i'll be terminally ill soon orend up floating around face down in my ten by ten hot tub

  • watch it don't say to much even youtube is the gov.s bitch our post will be no longersoon just check back

  • All a freaking conspiracy... Alot of the high ranks in the company (BP) sold their stocks just days before and a bunch of other bull crap.

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