The Deepwater Horizon oil spill trajectory hindcast/forecast based on the Navy GOM HYCOM

I recently received an email with very interesting information on the oil spill in the Gulf. It is trying to predict and track the trajectory of the oil that is spilling. With joint effort between the Ocean Circulation Group and Optical Oceanography Laboratory of the University Of South Florida they are using ocean currents and simulated drifter particles. Vertical particles were released every 3 hours which simulated the continual oil spill. The movements of the particles were not perfect observations, but rather by estimations. Nothing can be a definite due to unknown forecasts. Those tests along with other combined tests are really cool and also scary at the same time.