http://www.oilspillsolutions.org/dispersant.htmIt is probably all the same...or did they just simply change the name? Toxic is toxic, right?
They dump it in YOUR water everyday, a million and a half gallons yes sir everyday. Here is the proof. They dont lie to us as they pollute life as we know it: deepwater operations daily list of chemicals used
It is in the sand. On the shore. If the oil has arrived- so has the poison they allow us to drink and swim in... I am no scientist, or marine biologist...but I am a witness.It's fighting and it will win...it moves in out but the evidence NEVER leaves. It just moves. Dissolves and moves around our plantet.
The dispersants responsible for the condition of the oil are made up of a stew of chemicals, about one-third of which are proprietary — which means that even BP does not know exactly what it's spraying. But it's the surfactants — a lipoprotein used in soaps that reduces the surface tension of liquids — that are the most active ingredient, reducing the surface tension of a liquid and breaking the oil from a slick into droplets. The finer the breakdown is, the easier it becomes for both big creatures like bluefin tuna or swordfish and tiny creatures like krill or shrimp to ingest the oil and the surfactants themselves.(See pictures of the Gulf oil spill.)
To sum it up-- Day one at the beach (Panama City Beach, FL.) seemed pretty normal, i guess. Four days later- this is a different place, a different beach...different tides, a different nasal drip. The day I arrived so did the beast. It has moved on for a few days, destroying other creatures in it's path. 
WIKIPEDIA: Phytoplankton account for half of allphotosynthetic activity on Earth.[2] Thus phytoplankton are responsible for much of the oxygen present in the Earth's atmosphere – half of the total amount produced by all plant life.[3] Their cumulative energy fixation in carbon compounds (primary production) is the basis for the vast majority of oceanic and also many freshwater food webs (chemosynthesis is a notable exception). As a side note, one of the more remarkable food chains in the ocean – remarkable because of the small number of links – is that of phytoplankton feeding krill (a type of shrimp) feeding baleen whales.
Most krill species display large daily vertical migrations, thus providing food for predators near the surface at night and in deeper waters during the day.
The krill showed up during the day...along with the oil. Interesting when I think of the connections. Sad, really.
The forecast for the oil is coming back to the west. I guess the current or the weather or something is moving it. So i've heard. Not to mention the Hurricane Alex and Celia right now, alive and well. Here is a tad bit of information I thought I would share... The source is : Oceanworld
Marine Food Web
Plants and animals must have organic carbon to survive. Organic carbon has high-energy chemical bonds which are broken to provide metabolic energy. For example, humans eat organic carbon in the form of green beans and chicken, but we couldn't survive if we only had diamonds to eat. Diamonds are made from carbon, but it is the wrong kind - inorganic carbon. Just like humans, plants and animals in the ocean require organic carbon.
How do they get it? There are only two ways. They either produce their own or make use of organic carbon produced by others. Species that make their own organic carbon are called "primary producers". They are the base of the marine food web because all other species depend on their productivity either directly or indirectly to survive. In most parts of the ocean, primary producers are marine plants, typically algae. These are the phytoplankton (phyto = plant; plankton = floating). They live in the sunlit portions of the ocean and use energy from the sun to convert inorganic carbon into organic carbon.
How do they get it? There are only two ways. They either produce their own or make use of organic carbon produced by others. Species that make their own organic carbon are called "primary producers". They are the base of the marine food web because all other species depend on their productivity either directly or indirectly to survive. In most parts of the ocean, primary producers are marine plants, typically algae. These are the phytoplankton (phyto = plant; plankton = floating). They live in the sunlit portions of the ocean and use energy from the sun to convert inorganic carbon into organic carbon.
Just by being a bit more aware of the things I thought I might have known...you know, take my focus off of the birds, the dolphins and the burned alive turtles- I witnessed something giant happening right before my eyes, in my nasal cavities...in my world. There has been an evident change in the algae/phytoplankton since I arrived here a few days ago. Oil or not.
I t j u s t i s.
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