Excerpt from Exclusive: BP Oil Spill Coverup, Daily Beast, August 17, 2010:
July 27... While the media, BP, and the Coast Guard were reporting no more oil, [Mark Williams, a fishing boat captain hired by BP] and other boat captains were assigned to find it.
Three days later, Williams found remnants of dispersant in a canal in Santa Rosa Sound north of Pensacola Beach. He reported it to his supervisor... Williams wrote in his logbook, "Returned p.m. for check-out. [Supervisor] said, 'Oh, they sent someone out there and it was algae'—No fucking way—Idiots."
Read the article here.
Kind of hard to say its not there when your own government has it shown on its web site--virually the entire coastline..has oil in one shape or another..heavy oiling down to tar balls. See
http://gomex.erma.noaa.gov/layerfiles/9448/files/MC252_MobileShorelineCurrentOilingSituation_2010_0817.pdf
Satellite data is difficult to ignore...