How can samples from the oil spill taken a month ago – mean anything about what the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is like today?

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/images/brooks_may8_25.jpg

Subsurface Monitoring Points - Gulf of Mexico - Deepwater Horizon Macondo Prospect disaster - NOAA - May 8 - May 25 monitoring stations - report for June 10 from May 2010 samples

Subsurface Monitoring Points - Gulf of Mexico - Deepwater Horizon Macondo Prospect disaster - NOAA - May 8 - May 25 monitoring stations - report for June 10 from May 2010 samples

*(from)*

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100623_brooks.html

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My Note-

There is something really wrong with using sample results that are a month old for reports to indicate the situation today in an event that has expanded massively since a month ago.

Why does it take so long in realtime to get any results on these things? How can they possibly show the current conditions and the situation that exists even from this week’s spewing of oil and dispersants?

- cricketdiane

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