Loop current is now drawing the BP oil disaster to Florida Keys - Toxicologist: "We could be getting to the point that puts coral over the edge"; Masters: "a major ecological disaster ... cannot be ruled out."

On May 6 I wrote, "the dispersant-laced oil spill may soon be entrained in the Loop Current, which is part of the Gulf Stream, sweeping it toward the Florida Keys, home to America's biggest coral reef" (see "Out of Sight: BP's dispersants are toxic — but not as toxic as dispersed oil").

Now that worst-case scenario has played out.  And as meteorologist Jeff Masters explains:

The latest surface current forecasts from NOAA's HYCOM model show that oil could continue pouring into the Loop...