OK, just remembered this one from an article with a Valentine and co. interview :

The article, I think was removed from the web ( I could be wrong ), but I have a saved copy

Scientists say Gulf spill altering food web

Jul 14, 8:24 AM (ET)
(originally by MATTHEW BROWN and RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI

(Below is just a section from the article)

"Chemical oceanographer John Kessler from Texas A&M University and geochemist David Valentine from the University of California-Santa Barbara recently spent about two weeks sampling the waters in a six-mile radius around the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon rig. More than 3,000 feet below the surface, they found natural gas levels have reached about 100,000 times normal, Kessler said.

Already those concentrations are pushing down oxygen levels as the gas gets broken down by bacteria, Kessler and Valentine said. When oxygen levels drop low enough, the breakdown of oil and gas grinds to a halt and most life can't be sustained.

The researchers also found dead pyrosomes covering the Gulf's surface in and around the spill site. "There were thousands of these guys dead on the surface, just a mass eradication of them," Kessler said."

The rest of the article I have copied.

[link to mentaljudo.blogspot.com]

The interesting thing I noticed is that Valentine's paper was received for review on August 23, around 40 days after the statements in the quoted article, a seemingly 180 turnaround from what he had said. Now, I isn't a microbiologist or anyting like dat



But I do like to follow things as closely as possible, permitting my limitations of understanding, and things just never added up.