BP Plc (BP)

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Hogwash!

Table salt, sodium chloride is one of the most toxic compounds known to humans on the planet, and the ocean is full of it!!!!

http://chemlabs.uoregon.edu/Safety/toxicity.html

http://foodandhealth.com/cpecourses/salt.php

One of the reasons salt was introduced centuries ago to the food supply, is because it is toxic, toxic to bacteria, that is why it is used as a food preservative, like smoked beef jerky, it is stops natural decay, it is toxic to the bacteria.

The dispersant does not move the oil to ocean floor to hide it. It emulsifies it so it can disperse (by emulsification) the oil into the bulk water, just like dish soap does to cooking oil in your kitchen sink, thus increasing the water-oil interfacial area making the oil particles small enough for naturally occurring microbes (that eat oil) to reach more of the oil surface at the water-oil interface so that nature can more quickly convert the crude oil into biomass that is consumed safely by the oceans food chain.

All the microbes need is oxygen and smaller particles of the oil surrounded by water to help get that job done. The dispersant is no more dangerous than your household dish soap.

The dispersant BP is using also happens to be biodegradable.