{"id":572,"date":"2010-05-17T14:04:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/?p=572"},"modified":"2010-05-17T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:04:36","slug":"associated-press-models-indicate-gulf-spill-may-be-in-major-gulf-loop-current","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/2010\/05\/17\/associated-press-models-indicate-gulf-spill-may-be-in-major-gulf-loop-current\/","title":{"rendered":"Associated Press:  Models indicate Gulf spill may be in major (Gulf Loop) current"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jwYFoBlYjTHWsi1MaarZvk_C_ljwD9FO4PGO6\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jwYFoBlYjTHWsi1MaarZvk_C_ljwD9FO4PGO6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 16, 2010<br \/>\nBy JASON DEAREN<br \/>\nAssociated Press Writer<br \/>\nResearchers tracking the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico say computer models show the black ooze may have already entered a major current flowing toward the Florida Keys, and are sending out a research vessel to learn more.<br \/>\nWilliam Hogarth, dean of the University of South Florida&#8217;s College of Marine Science, told The Associated Press Sunday that one model shows that the oil has already the loop current, which is the largest in the Gulf. The model is based on weather, ocean current and spill data from the U.S. Navy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, among other sources.<br \/>\nHogarth said a second model shows the oil is 3 miles from the current &#8211; still dangerously close.<br \/>\nThe current flows in a looping pattern in the Gulf, through the area where the blown-out well is, east to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Richard Charter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jwYFoBlYjTHWsi1MaarZvk_C_ljwD9FO4PGO6 May 16, 2010 By JASON DEAREN Associated Press Writer Researchers tracking the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico say computer models show the black ooze may have already entered a major current flowing toward the Florida Keys, and are sending out a research vessel to learn more. William Hogarth, dean of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/2010\/05\/17\/associated-press-models-indicate-gulf-spill-may-be-in-major-gulf-loop-current\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Associated Press:  Models indicate Gulf spill may be in major (Gulf Loop) current<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}