Workers prepare to float protective boom lines in Pensacola Bay, Florida. (MyFoxTampaBay.com / Chris Chmura)
USF Scientists revisit oil spill zone
Team to examine impact of deep-sea oil plumes
Updated: Saturday, 04 Sep 2010, 10:23 AM EDT
Published : Saturday, 04 Sep 2010, 9:44 AM EDT
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Marine scientists from the University of South Florida are taking another trip out to study the effects of the Gulf oil spill.
The USF College of Marine Science said a team of 16 is leaving Saturday morning for a seven-day research trip to examine the impact of deep-sea oil plumes on fish, shrimp and other marine creatures.
The R/V Weatherbird II will be bound for the DeSoto Canyon, a key deep water feature in the northern Gulf that is critical to marine life and where clouds of degraded oil from the spill have been found.
Saturday's research cruise will be the fourth trip the Weatherbird II has made since an April 20 explosion led to the gusher.
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