Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

This is a computer model and hasn't been peer-reviewed yet. It demonstrates a virtual die and shows how it could spread based on modeling of loop currents connecting to Atlantic flows. The oil could go up to North Carolina at a rate of 100 miles a day before it hits the eastern flow into the Atlantic.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/06/gulf-oil-could-spread-to-atlantic-coast/

"It's a relatively small leak compared to the volume of water in the Gulf... Come on, this is America, there will be frivolous lawsuits."
-- BP CEO Tony Hayward

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I heard that there are apparently huge oil plumes coalescing underwater because of the way they're using the dispersant. In the words of Blackadder, I believe it rhymes with Clucking Bell.