You are listening to University of Georgia oceanographer Mandy Joye.

您听到的是对乔治亚大学海洋学家曼迪·乔伊的采访。

Mandy Joye: and there's also propane and butane, and gases that derive from the same processes that make the oil.

曼迪·乔伊：泄露的还有丙烷和丁烷等气体，这些气体是在石油钻取过程中产生的。

Dr. Joye said there's so much gas leaking into the Gulf that we might be looking at severe oxygen depletion in Gulf water.

乔伊博士说，大量甲烷气体泄露可能会造成墨西哥湾水域严重缺氧。

In June 2010, Joye returned from an emergency research expedition in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

2010年6月，乔伊从一个紧急调研专家组归来，该小组是在“海岸地平线”油井发生泄漏后成立的。

Samantha Joye, a University of Georgia researcher, found these dead patches of sea floor during five expeditions after the spill.

佐治亚大学研究院Samantha Joye在五次科考之后发现原油泄漏后海底的生物大片大片死亡。

Mandy Joye: the methane concentrations in these plumes are 100 to 10, 000 times what you would normally see in Gulf of Mexico water.

曼迪·乔伊：墨西哥湾原油层甲烷气体浓度是正常情况下的100到10000倍。

Mandy Joye: the degradation of this oil and gas has been injected into the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. It is going to cause the oxygen depletion in the water, there's just no way around it.

曼迪·乔伊：墨西哥湾石油和天然气泄露状况的恶化将导致该水域氧气耗竭，这是我们不得不面的问题。