Study Confirms Some BP Oil Stayed Deep

clipped from dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com Federal oceanographers have released their second report assessing how much of the oil that gushed from the Gulf of Mexico seabed since the blowout of the BP well may have  dispersed in ocean depths rather than rising to the surface. The new analysis confirms the  previous conclusion that some oil did in fact drift and disperse in waters between 3,300 and 4,300 feet beneath the surface. A kind of colonial cnidarian — an animal with stinging cells related to anemones, corals and jellyfish. The cluster of creatures was photographed near a cold seep nearly a mile down.