Politics

What BP Doesn't Want You to See

By Anne Landman

By now, we've all seen pictures of oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster washing up on the shore, we've seen photos of the slick from the air and the video of the pipe gushing oil on the ocean floor. We've even seen the progression of the spread of the oil in the Gulf day by day, thanks to Google's Crisis Response site for the spill. But what we haven't seen, until now, is the underwater impact of the oil geyser, and the effect on the ocean of the chemical dispersants BP is using on the oil. ABC news went underwater with Philippe Cousteau, Jr., the grandson of the famous ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, to film what the spill looks like underwater. Cousteau observed, "This is a nightmare," and "one of the most horrible things I've seen under water." Click to view the video and see what's happening under the surface of the Gulf -- something BP would rather you not see.

Full post as published by PR Watch on May 30, 2010 (boomark / email).