Scientists Discover Dying Corals and Creatures Near Deep Water Horizon Oil-Spill Site in the Gulf, Penn State Science, November 5, 2010:
"For example, a plume of toxic dispersant or oil blowing through this community could have caused damage that resulted in the slow death of the corals without leaving any trace on the sea floor near the corals," [Penn State marine biologist and chief scientist on the NOAA/BOEMR expedition Charles] Fisher said.
"No one yet knows if the signature of whatever toxin killed these corals can be found in their skeletons after the tissue sloughs off. No one even knows if dispersant accumulates in the tissues that it kills."
I figured this out when I started seeing things dieing here on the east coast when the tar mats floated in with the waves and something deadly in June/July ... http://beforeitsnews.com/story/132/055/Hermit_crabs_dieing_Along_with_the_Blue_Crabs,_Oysters,_Ghost_Crabs,_Barnacles_PICS.html
And pics here from June/July ... http://beforeitsnews.com/story/116/011/My_findings_of_Blue_Crabs_over_the_last_few_weeks..html
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/91/422/Tens_of_thousands_of_Jelly_fish_are_washing_ashore_Florida_East_Coast.html
There were also millions of insects dead along the shore line were the sea had pushed them.
Update on TAR MATS N. Ormond Beach, found seagulls dead now too ! ... http://beforeitsnews.com/story/95/515/Update_on_TAR_MATS_N._Ormond_Beach,_found_seagulls_dead_now_too.html