Marine Life Confusing "Dispersed" Oil with Sea Habitat (VIDEO)

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Are you like me? Do you not think much about seaweed unless it gets caught in your bathing suit?

My trip with a National Wildlife Federation team to the BP oil spill changed that. I hitched a ride with a Louisiana fishing boat captain on a 10-hour trip across spill-impacted areas.

Here's how our captain showed me what a critical role sargassum, a surface seaweed, plays in the food chain:



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-grant/marine-life-confusing-dis_b_574865.html

[ixion]

1. I said when this first happened that the damage to the ecosystem would be horrible

and I am sad to see that coming true. :cry:

The gulf has a very fragile and unique ecosystem, and it's just been destroyed, for the most part, by British Petroleum.

[janx]

2. I want BP outta there! n/t

[aquart]

3. I want them outta the universe.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

4. BRITISH ARE EXPERTS OF EXPLOITATION OF OTHER LANDS AND PEOPLES

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5. I don't understand why they are running the show; or why the Coast Guard is now their lackey.

Their operations should be nationalized and their CEOS should be imprisoned.

[aquart]

6. First, we need to label them a terrorist organization.