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Spilled oil is spreading in hidden plume

The US government has acknowledged what scientists first reported nearly 2 months ago–that a deep plume of diffuse oil was spreading away from the leaking Macondo well and that oxygen concentrations in the vicinity were below what is expected in that region. The Joint Analysis Group, or JAG, today finding a deep plume of spreading oil as well as depressed oxygen concentrations during a cruise in May.

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