submarine finds oil, dead sea at bottom of gulf of mexico

[bcbm]

A mile below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico (http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-months-louisiana-gulf-coast-struggles/story?id=11927147), there is little sign of life.

"It looks like everything's dead," University of Georgia professor Samantha Joye said.

In an exclusive trip (http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/submarine-scours-bottom-gulf-12302919) aboard the U.S. Navy's deep-ocean research submersible Alvin, ABC News was given the chance to observe the impact of this summer's massive oil spill (http://abcnews.go.com/WN/oil-bp-spill-found-bottom-gulf/story?id=11618039) that most will never see.

The ocean floor appears to be littered with twigs, but Joye points out that they are actually dead worms and that Alvin is sitting on top of what is considered an 80-square mile kill zone.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-submarine-dive-finds-oil-dead-sea-life/story?id=12305709

[#FF0000]

ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuck.

[Salyut]

ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuck.

Oh this is nothing.

The entire ocean is dying. Ocean acidification and all that. :3

[#FF0000]

Uggggggggggggghhhh.

And I'm not what you'd call an environmentalist or anything but there are so many ecosystems and so much in the oceans that we've never seen that are literally gone forever.

Jesus.

[Salyut]

Uggggggggggggghhhh.

And I'm not what you'd call an environmentalist or anything but there are so many ecosystems and so much in the oceans that we've never seen that are literally gone forever.

Jesus.

Its okay. You go numb from it all eventually.
:(

[Ele'ill]

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[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Of all the Earth's environments, the oceans have suffered the worst, I reckon. Not only are they "out of sight, out of mind" for most people, meaning that shit can be dumped into it without (many) locals complaining, but the technologies and methods used for exploiting seabound resources remain shockingly primitive - trawler fishing is simply a hunter-gatherer method that has been magnified to absurd scales.

We need to develop ways of exploiting the oceans in a more symbiotic manner, much as agriculture takes advantages of natural tendencies and processes on land for it's own ends. There is no excuse. The current state of aquaculture and mariculture is primitive, but more investment and research is desperately needed if we are to ever have a sustainable relationship with one of the planet's major biomes.

[The Vegan Marxist]

It's news like this that brings me to tears. :(