\nexplorer Jacques Cousteau, dive into the oily Gulf of Mexico on ABC’s Good Morning America<\/em>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Jacques Cousteau would have been “horrified” by the devastation being
\nwrought by a huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill, his grandson said after diving down
\ninto the seas.<\/p>\n
“There’s a
\nchemical dispersant\/oil mixture that is now … over vast areas of the Gulf and
\nas we feared it’s not concentrated at the surface,” Philippe Cousteau Jr.
\ntold CNN, adding “this absolutely is a nightmare.”<\/p>\n
“We were
\nabout 15 to 20 feet down and it was dispersed into smaller and smaller
\nparticles throughout the water column in these billowing clouds that were just
\ncircling us, encompassing us in this toxic soup. It was very, very
\nalarming.”<\/p>\n
Oil has been
\nspewing into the seas since an April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig,
\njust off the Louisiana coast, and the spreading slick is seeping into the
\nstate’s fragile marshlands.<\/p>\n
“I know During the He said as the “This was And as BP on Wednesday readied a new bid to Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n Will BP take responsibility, or squeeze profits from Gulf spill?<\/a><\/p>\n Oil rig workers missed ‘very large abnormality’ before explosion<\/a><\/p>\n
\nthat my father and grandfather would have been doing this if they were alive
\nand that they would have been just as horrified by what they saw as I
\nwas,” Cousteau said in a post on his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n“gruelling” dive, which required three weeks or preparation, Cousteau
\nand his team wore full hazmat diving suits and heavy hard-hat helmets weighing
\nsome 30 pounds.<\/p>\n
\nteam was underway, “wave after wave of oil\/chemical dispersant mix washed
\nover us.”<\/p>\n
\none of the most terrible experiences of my life seeing first-hand what this oil
\nspill looks like under the water and knowing that this contamination is
\nspreading over hundreds of miles.”<\/p>\n
\ncap the leak, Cousteau warned, “Even if they do manage to cut off the oil
\ntomorrow, the oil that has escaped will spread, following currents as far as
\nthe Arctic Circle via the Gulf Stream, wreaking havoc along the way. I can only
\nhope that we learn from this and start to truly take the kind of drastic action
\nnecessary to begin the decades-long road to recovery.”<\/p>\n
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