Because that's where I found it. Absolutely shocking images, this really rams home the scope of what is going on there.

I fear this is just the beginning though.

One thing I can't understand, and this is not an armchair oil spill cleanup attempt, why are they so trying to avoid the oil coming to the surface, isn't that the only chance you get to contain it and to deal with it? Dispersing it underwater seems to me to make it much harder to get rid of it.

Can someone with more technical insight here explain that?