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by SantaFeJoe on Thu Apr 16, 2015 3:00 pm

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This spill has been going on since way before the BP spill in the Gulf:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/secr ... ePage=true

There are several articles on the subject if you Google the title "Secrecy shrouds decades-old oil spill in Gulf of Mexico".

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by pleverington on Tue May 05, 2015 8:35 pm

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Yeppers--I was out there during a hurricane and it is no joke. We were evacuated just in the nick of time before the full force of it hit. The stubbed Christmas trees were so bent over they actually were doubled over on themselves and disappeared under the surface of the water. They had to use drag lines to find them again. Just goes to show--a bad hurricane can spell some real big trouble for a platform or drilling rig. No amount of prep or caution is a sure safeguard against that and with these storms getting more powerful due to global warming.....

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