Uncharted waters: restoring the deep gulf fouled by bp’s deepwater horizon spill
"We are trying to behave that we have never done before," stated Erik Cordes, a Temple College barrier expert that has studied the corals broken through the spill and labored around the government’s restoration plans. "We’re in uncharted waters here." The continental shelf drops dramatically, about 25 miles from the Louisiana coast. Miles below, there’s …