The main part of the slick is far off shore right now. The beaches from Pensacola, Destin and Panama City for the most part are clean. Some oil can be found by digging below the sand surface in the areas from Gulf Shores Alabama to Pensacola Beach. The sugar white sand beaches run from Gulf Shores Alabama to Mexico Beach Florida. On either side of those points the texture seems to take on more of a grainy yellowish color/feel. Louisiana is much more a marshy land area with a lot of grasses.

My son-in-law has a large boat and is part of the “vessels of opportunity" cleanup effort in the Gulf. Some of their group has reported seeing (with their fish finding equipment) what they believe to be large under sea plums of oil and there is no way to skim/collect it. Sorry to ramble, got to get back to thinking Carbines.

GCK, dad worked at Rucker after he retired from the AF.