courtney mil,
The "suck up a plume" theory is just nonsense on stilts. The dilution is always going to be extreme tens of miles off the coast, even if a cloud of concrete dust landed right in front of the ship.
The key problem with the lawsuit is the lack of any excess cancer cases. The guy who was working in the exclusion zone for months might have a case, and so might any aircrew who flew closer and have developed cancers... but there's no reported excess over the number of cancers expected given the number of the general ships' crew.
I'm somewhat surprised that what seem to be a well-organized team of ambulance-chasers would chose this losing approach. I guess they expect the defendant to just roll over and buy them off - although for a few hundred K I'd be willing to expand on the few minutes of research I did above to destroy the case as an expert witness.
Last edited by awblain; 22nd Dec 2013 at 23:07.