{"id":1158,"date":"2010-08-05T18:41:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T22:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2010-08-06T00:04:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T04:04:44","slug":"oil-collected-north-of-dauphin-island-rapidly-disappears-in-glass-jars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/05\/oil-collected-north-of-dauphin-island-rapidly-disappears-in-glass-jars\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Collected North of Dauphin Island Rapidly Disappears in Glass Jars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous post, I showed pictures of LOTS OF OIL just off the Dauphin Island beaches (two of those pictures are included below). At that same time, I collected\u00a0two samples of the oil and provided them to scientists. But before I gave them the samples some very strange things happened. The first sample included several clogs of oil and about a cup of seawater from an area of surface oil like the picture on the left. The second sample was gathered from an area of dense surface oil like the picture on the right. The oil collected in the second sample was very liquidy and contained very little seawater. I collected the samples around 5:45 P.M., August 4 (yesterday). By noon of the following day (today), dramatic changes had taken place in both samples. By noon, the water with the clogs of oil had turned clear, and the clogs of oil had either dissolved or evaporated and were no longer visible. By noon, there were just a few black granules at the bottom of the jar.\u00a0In another strange development, also by noon, the oil in the second container had lost over half its volume (the glass jar which was filled to the brim was mostly empty). Both jars were closed with lids.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1142\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sm100_0492.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1142\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1142\" title=\"Surface oil in the Mississippi Sound, photographed August 4, 2010\" src=\"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sm100_0492-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Surface oil in the Mississippi Sound, photographed August 4, 2010\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sm100_0492-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sm100_0492-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sm100_0492-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sm100_0492-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surface oil in the Mississippi Sound, photographed August 4, 2010<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div id=\"attachment_1144\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sm100_0531.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1144\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1144\" title=\"Oil with Dauphin Island bridge and houses in the background\" src=\"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sm100_0531-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Oil with Dauphin Island bridge and houses in the background\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sm100_0531-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sm100_0531-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sm100_0531-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sm100_0531-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oil with Dauphin Island bridge and houses in the background, Dauphin Island west of Katrina Cut is behind the photographer, August 4, 2010.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Larger original photographs used in this and the previous post:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/images\/100_0492.JPG\">Photo 1 2433KB<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/images\/100_0499.JPG\">Photo 2 2464KB<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/images\/100_0531.JPG\">Photo 3 2356KB<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/images\/100_0533.JPG\">Photo 4 2419KB<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous post, I showed pictures of LOTS OF OIL just off the Dauphin Island beaches (two of those pictures are included below). At that same time, I collected\u00a0two samples of the oil and provided them to scientists. But &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/05\/oil-collected-north-of-dauphin-island-rapidly-disappears-in-glass-jars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-spill","tag-dispersants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}