USF says government tried to squelch their oil plume findings

http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/usf-says-government-tried-to-squelch-their-oil-plume-findings/1114225

Has NOAA been bought off by BP?
I would say so,yes

A month after the Deepwater Horizon disaster began, scientists from the University of South Florida made a startling announcement. They had found signs that the oil spewing from the well had formed a 6-mile-wide plume snaking along in the deepest recesses of the gulf.

The reaction that USF announcement received from the Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agencies that sponsored their research:

Shut up.

The USF scientists weren't alone. Vernon Asper, an oceanographer at the University of Southern Mississippi, was part of a similar effort that met with a similar reaction. "We expected that NOAA would be pleased because we found something very, very interesting," Asper said. "NOAA instead responded by trying to discredit us. It was just a shock to us."

NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco, in comments she made to reporters in May, expressed strong skepticism about the existence of undersea oil plumes — as did BP's then-CEO, Tony Hayward.

"She basically called us inept idiots," Asper said. "We took that very personally."

AP Exclusive: Scuba Diving in the Gulf Oil Spill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGX7krQYI_4&feature=player_embedded
http://www.katu.com/news/photos/95866799.html
It's a sad day that the lies of BP are even allowed to still be presented as the truth.
Why are no fly overs allowed, because it would prove NOAA right and BP is still trying to save face.
The American public and the rest of the world have the right to know the full scope of this catastrophe.


BP contradicts government claim on oil plumes
Company's COO says apparent differences may be due to semantics
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37588890/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf/


BP’s chief operating officer Doug Suttles denied reports of underwater plumes of oil Wednesday, one day after government scientists confirmed the existence of oil beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

"We haven’t found any large concentrations of oil under the sea. To my knowledge, no one has," Suttles said on NBC News’ TODAY show.

On Tuesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said its researchers found subsurface oil as far as 142 miles from the leaking Gulf well. It was the first government confirmation of undersea oil near BP's blown-out well a mile beneath the ocean.