Gulf Current News Today

Do you know the name of the first navigator who used “weather routing” on his voyage from Europe to faraway lands and back? It wasn’t Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Juan Sebastian Elcano, Walter Raleigh or any other famous name from the XV or XVI centuries. It was a much lesser-known figure. Antón de Alaminos, ...

The fate of plastics entering the 3D ocean circulation from rivers discharge is examined through the Lagrangian analysis of neutrally buoyant particles. Particles are released continuously over 1991-2010 at the surface along the coasts according to monthly estimates of rivers plastic waste input. They are advected by daily currents from a state-of-the-art global ocean model at 1/12° resolution. At the end of the simulation, particles remaining in the surface layer of 1~m thickness represent...

VLISSINGEN, the Netherlands – Tourists of the “Eco Volunteer, North Spitsbergen” trip organized by Oceanwide Expeditions have been cleaning the beaches of Northwest Spitsbergen. VLISSINGEN, the Netherlands – Tourists of the “Eco Volunteer, North Spitsbergen” trip organized by Oceanwide Expeditions have been cleaning the beaches of Northwest Spitsbergen. Tourists on this specially-designed cruise spend half of their cruise cleaning beaches of detritus washed up by the tide. Approxim...

Awaiting barge. however, this method has only been used before in shallow waters. short of figuring out how to cap the well, b.p. believes the best long-term solution is to drill a relief well. that began last night and would tap into the same oil reserve now leaking, estimated 5,000 barrels a day. thus relieving the damaged pipeline. the timeline on that happening, two or three months. and then there is the gulf current. the worst case scenario is the still-growing oil slick entering the curren...

Advisors, not helping them and everybody in the business, and everybody so far has been unable to stop the flow of oil, and even the bp brass this morning making the sunday morning talk shows, basically conceding, it is a guess as to how much already spilled and how fast it continues to spill and whether the rupture is actually getting larger. so that is why so many people all along the gulf coast, including florida that and eastern seaboard worry if they cant stop the flow of oil and get the re...

Towards the coastline not only of southeast louisiana but mississippi and alabama. from all the experts they eventually florida. you mentioned at the top here about the university of miamis estimate assessing the gulf current. its arcing north at a higher latitude than normal. that has the promise as the oil slick gets larger to grab the oil and bring it all the way down the western coast of florida, hitting key west and hitting the keys between cuba and florida. that could potentially take it a...