[Coral-List] hypoxia?

[Kris]

I just recently finished undergrad and don't have any experience or education on oil spills, but I had a thought pop into my head as I followed the coral-list discussions on the oil spill. Has anyone else been thinking about how the oil spill may exacerbate the hypoxia in the region and how that may magnify affects on the marine organisms in the region and also how the hypoxia may affect the degradation processes/rates of the crude?

Kristof Ketch