As I previously mentioned, I shall post only images pertaining to underwater life. 
Helping me choose these images from my archives, I have my good friend Coconut, a parrot I rescued many years ago. 
I therefore will include him in the opening. 
Plus I promised Ekaterin I would. 
I feel the situation in the gulf is being slowly moved back in the pages of the national newspapers & the gulf is not in the collective minds of the people of the country as a whole. 
  The pain & suffering to the whole nation will be felt for/in years to come, but the immediate stress is surely being felt among the people directly impacted by this man made catastrophe. Those who live there, breath there & wanted to die in peace there. 
  These people are our brothers & sisters, sons & daughters, & mothers & fathers. 
They are us.
continued at Daily Kos....