NOAA Completes Initial Analysis of Weatherbird II Water Samples

NOAA’s independent analysis of water samples provided from the May 22-28 research mission of the University of South Florida’s R/V Weatherbird II confirmed the presence of very low concentrations of sub-surface oil and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at sampling depths ranging from 50 meters to 1,400 meters.

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