British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in The Loop Current – Florida Next

By Chris de Morsella on May 20, 2010 2 Comments ASAR, Bertrand Chapron, BP, British Petroleum, coral reef marine ecosystem, Deepwater Horizon, Envisat radar satellite, ERS-2, ESA, European Space Agency, Fabrice Collard, Florida, French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, Gulf Loop Current, Gulf of Mexico, Ifremer, oil spill

Scientists monitoring the massive BP oil spill with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Envisat radar satellite say that it has entered the Loop Current, a powerful oceanic conveyor belt that flows clockwise around the Gulf of Mexico towards Florida. It is expected to begin impacting FLorida in six days time.