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Flying in sky between New Orleans and Pensacola, a vast slick of oil-darkened waters hundreds of miles in diameter atop of the Gulf waters can be seen. On the south side of the oil slick, there is a long thin stream close to, if not at the entrance of the loop current, a naturally occurring Gulf current that flows south towards Key West. The loop eventually turns into the Gulf Stream, a river of warm water that heads up the east coast of Florida up past the Carolinas and then out to sea towards the United Kingdom, the home of British[...]