1 DR. BOTHNER: I thought the mechanism- -and I do not have this 



2 document, either, but I thought the mechanism was that you had lots of 



3 suspended matter in the water column and of course the water depth at 



4 that location--which was one hull depth of the ship, whatever big ship 



5 that was--suspended in that concentration during a storm there very 



6 high--we measured that. 



7 There was a lot of turbulence, because it was shallow. 



8 DR. KRAEUTER: This is primarily the mechanism that has been 



9 proposed-- 



10 DR. BOTHNER: For shallow water? A shallow water problem. 



11 DR. KRAEUTER: But it has not, as far as any evidence I know--it 



12 has not been proven. 



13 DR. AURAND: We try--and John and I were talking about this the 



14 other day--we have funded a study in Alaska to try to show absorption on 



15 particles that transport down in Norton Sound, it is the Yukon River. 



16 DR. AURAND: If there is ever an oil spill here, it is going to 



17 get on this stuff, it is going to go straight to the bottom. They could 



18 not get the stuff onto the particles, 



19 Now the next question is--that is where they are still hung 



20 up--what is unusual about the particles that they cannot get this to 



21 work? 



22 We have not been able to make it happen in the laboratory. 



23 Something clearly happens. 



24 DR. KRAEUTER: That is what Jerry was talking about there, because 



25 he knows those studies, and just the mechanism--he knows it occurs, he 



26 measured it. 



27 DR. GRASSLE: Okay, a suggestion for that. 



28 (Simultaneous discussion) 



29 MR. VILD: My initial objection is the way that is worded, "There 



30 is no mechanism of transport of oil to the bottom in any quantity." 



31 That means that there is no method, or nothing that we have documented. 



32 It means that there is nothing--to me, anyway. 



33 (Simultaneous discussion.) 



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