Scientists have discovered that dying communities of coral in the vicinity of BP oil spill. Scientists say coral have never seen before you death of its kind in the Gulf of Mexico and you believe the oil spill the cause is.
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Scientists, to explore the Gulf of Mexico, have a patch from dead and entdeckt.Es dying coral is seven miles from the site of the blown-out BP oil well, and scientists suspect that the corals by the spill damage wurde.NPR's Richard Harris has the story.
A four year long study of the coral in the Gulf of Mexiko.Chuck fishermen from Penn State University was RICHARD HARRIS: Researchers set out on a government research ship in October continue on the journey.
Mr. CHUCK FISCHER (researcher, Penn State University): for most this cruise, what we saw healthy coral communities deep from 500 to 2500 meters, were all about golf Mexico.
HARRIS: Or all under the Gulf of Mexico because in this large deep we are not discussing coral reefs, colourful fish but, in the dark, the sea life just so full.
Fischer says scientists were feeling pretty good about what you, your saw last dive until until you made with a robot mini sub only seven miles from the site of the deepwater horizon disaster.
Mr FISCHER: From the moment the term community came, it was quite clear, that we had for this in the past three weeks not look like the other coral.
HARRIS: The Coral sea fan, usually bright gold, Orange, were clearly in a poor condition.Fischer says it was obvious that many dead or dying.
Mr FISCHER: Coral in the process of the tissues were, with a murky, Brown, Flocculent material, areas of covered before recently dead skeleton were to lose.
HARRIS: Fischer he and his colleagues says she took samples of the coral, analyze now to see what the damage verursacht.Aber he strongly believed that it has to do chemical dispersants from the disaster with oil or perhaps.
Mr FISCHER: We have never come across a community of dying coral and to find at this place and this time is very strong evidence, I think that it is the spill connection.
HARRIS: The good news is that so far, at least, it seems an isolated case and no sign of trouble in the whole Gulf.
Richard Harris, NPR news.
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