Gulf seabed one year after BP disaster

It has been about a year since BP sealed the oil well that had been gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Renewed exploration and drilling is in the news this week with deals being discussed in Russia, Alaska, India, and even off the shores of Cuba. But has the international business community threatened from the Gulf Oil Spill one year later?

A U.S. biochemist and scholar says no way, and there should be more protections and protocols must be put in place.

Dr. Samantha (Mandy) Joye and a group of scientists from the U.S. states of Georgia and Florida are studying the sea-floor in the same area where the Deepwater Horizon well blew out.  With automatic cameras, the scientists have been able to take clear look at what what happen beneath, and it's a slimy, soupy mess.

While her favorite place has to be on board the research ship, I caught up with Dr. Joye in her Athens, Georgia office at the University of Georgia's Department of Marine Sciences to talk about her research.

Her team has detect that a lot of the oil from the spill has settled to the seafloor and the result has been devastating to some of the smallest components of sea life.