Sailing in Oil - yacht perspective on the Gulf of Mexico disaster

8:27 PM Tue 6 Jul 2010 GMT

'Sailing in an oil slick - uncertainty in every direction' .

There's a new vocabulary developed since the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. There are 'tar balls, plumes, slicks and sheens'. Here Captain Tom Serio, a freelance Captain, writer and photographer in South Florida, tells The Triton the perspective for yachts these days in the Gulf. Oil doesn't belong in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, but it continues to spew out of a broken well pipe a mile below the surface and 41 miles off the Louisiana coast. Since an explosion on and the subsequent sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on April 20, it's estimated that ...

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by Capt. Tom Serio, The Triton/Sail-World Cruising