Florida Keys dodging threat from oil

[Scurrilous]

Forecasters say the state's delicate chain of islands is in no imminent threat from the oil gusher.

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"The risk of oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout reaching the Florida Keys and South Florida anytime soon is now so remote that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has suspended its trajectory maps for the area, effectively downgrading the region to low risk.

"It's kind of like being taken out of the cone of uncertainty for a hurricane," said Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Michael Herring of Sector Key West. "We're temporarily out, but things could change."

On Monday, the nearest documented oil from the massive spill was about 385 miles from Key West, according to the Florida Peninsula Command Post in Miami.

And thanks in part to changes in currents, the oil still spewing from the well site does not have a clear path to the Keys, said Billy Causey, the southeast regional director of NOAA's National Marine Sanctuary Program."

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/21/1693163/florida-keys-dodging-threat-from.html#ixzz0rZ7leJhi

[Egnever]

1. Please God let it stay that way.

I don't think I could bear the keys being wiped out by this thing.

[SoCalDem]

2. "...no imminent threat..." does not mean it's safe

Water moves, as does the creatures within it..and the oil in it and on it:(

[Scuba]

3. If all the SCUBA divers got in the water, facing shore, and kicked our flippers....

...bet we could do more good than BP is doing. I'm headed to the diving blogs to start a movement.

I was diving in the Keys in February. Beautiful reefs, abundant marine life and almost everyone I encountered had a conservationist mentality.

Sure hope the oil skips the Keys and goes to the Hamptons.