@barackobama "I dont think they understand the fact, how much oil is really left in this marsh" @whitehouse

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The search for oil 'on the surface' of the water has been hard to find during the last few days.

Certainly some good news... a week 'before' that temporary cap was placed on the broken well, BP crews were collecting around 25-thousand barrels of oily water, everyday.

BP Spokesman John Curry says, "and now we're down to essentially not having any barrels to skim."

Seventy-four percent of the oil, BP says... has been boomed, skimmed, captured and contained.

Task Force Team Leader Jesse Shaffer III says, "oh it's a lot better, yes sir, but it's not gone."

For this task force, formed a couple of months back by Plaquemines Parish president Billy Nungesser, it's not what's 'on' the water that's their concern.

Jesse's son and fellow Task Force Team member, Jesse Shaffer IV says, "I dont think they understand the fact, how much oil is really left in this marsh, everywhere you look, there's oil around all the grass and it just gradually melts out."

Jesse Shaffer the 'Fourth' has been working with a team of 5 boats, in Nungesser's task force, paid for by BP, and run by the parish... sucking up oil in tight areas around the parishes marshes for 80 days now.

It's not even close to over. It's just coming up from the mud. It's straight oil back there look, just sinking staright in, as it warms up, it comes back up, just ooozes out, " says Shaffer III.

Jesse says oil is about 30 feet into the marsh.
Right now, they're collecting between 20 to 30 barrels of oil a day.

"And probably half of that or a quarter of that is oil. We just need to have it cleaned up, before BP decides to pull out of here," says Jesse III.

"We dredged in a circle, made a couple of circles, and the tar balls just started comin pouring up," says Task Force Member Troy Pellegrin.

BP says though, they're not going anywhere, anytime soon.

"BP continues to say, that we're not going anywhere as long as there is work to do, we will do it. And where there is oil, we will continue to clean, I will promise you that."

Meanwhile, with few signs of oil on the surface of the gulf, and constant cleaning of oiled marshes... the concern now shifts to what sits below.

"There is stuff on the bottom, I know there is, I've seen it," says Shaffer III.

A concern that only time will tell.

BP says operations will adjust based on the need.

A spokesperson for BP says managing those perceptions after that broken oil well is permanently sealed, will be their biggest challenge.