1 slick, I think it is a question of quantity. I think there is no doubt 



2 that some of it is going to make it to the bottom. 



3 DR. GRASSLE: What do you mean by the surface layer? 



4 DR. AURAND: 10 meters. I'm just trying to paraphrase what you 



5 all are saying so that you can take this and change it however you want 



6 to change it. 



7 What I heard was that there may be some mechanisms through krill, 



8 sedimentation, to get more of it in the canyons than would get on the 



9 slope benthic areas, but that most of it is going to go to the surface, 



10 whatever you want to define surface as meaning. 



11 So, I would go on and say that most of your impacts are going to 



12 occur on organisms which are in that area. 



13 DR. KRAEUTER: I would include the frontal system. 



14 DR. AURAND: Where, up here? 



15 DR. KRAEUTER: The surface layer, the frontal systems. 



16 DR. AURAND: Frontal systems. There is a possibility of higher 



17 accumulations of hydrocarbons on canyons than on adjacent areas of the 



18 slope, e.g., krill, sedimentation; however, the major impacts would 



19 occur in the surface layer. 



20 DR. BUTMAN: And on the shelf/slope water front. 



21 DR. AURAND: And at the shelf/slope water front. 



22 DR. RAY: Does that make any assumption of a sub-surface blow-out? 



23 A surface blow wouldn't affect that shelf/slope interface? Are you 



24 talking about at the surface? 



25 DR. KRAEUTER: You've got a surface front. 

 25 DR. RAY: Okay. 



27 DR. AURAND: I assumed from what I heard that you did not want to 



28 differentiate between these two. 



29 DR. GRASSLE: I would just insert the words "short-term" between 



30 "major" and "impacts"--major short-term impacts. 



31 DR. AURAND: There is no reason to differentiate between blow-outs 



32 and spills? 



33 DR. GRASSLE: I guess I would prefer to have the phrase, in terms 



34 of the benthic environment, the concern would be about long-term 



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