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While workers at sea continue to react to the massive BP oil leak, there are substances beneath the surfaces of the waters and sand that may create problems in the future. Numerous recent Internet reports and e-mails notify that an enormous methane gas bubble underneath the Gulf of Mexico seabed could generate a massive explosion, sending a deadly tsunami barreling toward the coast.
Gary Byerly, Professor of Geology at Louisiana State University, doesn’t get the claims supported by science. “I think the rumors are much unfounded,” Byerly said. “For one thing, the methane is not actually a gas at that depth, due to extreme pressure. It’s really in a glutinous or semi-solid state, so it’s not going to gather into a giant gas bubble.
“It’s extremely improbable that something like (an explosion and tsunami) could happen. I just don’t know how this bubble could form. You’re not going to have an explosion that deep underwater because there’s not sufficient oxygen down there.”
Marine biologist Heather Reed says heavy equipment used to move oily sand on Pensacola Beach may only be making clear out more difficult or less efficient. Gulf Breeze News file photo BP verified May 21 that the well is leaking methane, which sparked fears. An earlier BP survey also concluded that a methane bubble created the initial blowout of the wellhead in April.