I don't think your nuts. Just putting in a lot of time to keep an eye out on what is happening at this site. I would say this however.
When I first started to watch the undersea ROV cams, going on two months back... I keeped asking myself "where where all those shrimp coming from?". What I thought where huge colonies of shrimp most probably where very small balls of these clathrats being formed. On occasions a real shrimp or small jelly fish would get close to the camera so I assumed those quick moving white balls where some form of cretaceans.
I now suspect they where methane hydrate balls that still where small due to possible higher temps at the sea floor that are not dropping in temp a few, enough to allow them to grow in size.
So if I am right. We have been for a few months observing a slow release of mostly methane gas from the sea floor.
Welcome back ! There were a lot of clathrates in the ocean near the Macondo back when it was just a full on gusher. The clathrates form in the oil/methane as it comes up. Lower pressure and lower temp. When they tried the first cap assembly, it failed due to the clathrates. So they did load up the sea with it during the gushing, but that would have all dissolved by now and it certainly would not be shooting out of the sea bed now. Will post the current updated sea floor anomaly list on this thread. Have captured a few short videos now.
The main way to tell animals from clathrates, is that the clathrates will leave a vapor trail that persists for a few seconds. Animals never leave one. Sometimes you will see a short smearing trail due to video movement rendering problems. Animals that can swim will often swim against the flow. Plankton will follow the flow. Clathrates mostly follow the current unless they are larger then a golf ball. Then they do what they want, but can be steered. Animals also sometimes have color pigments. Have seen reds and purples.
This Oil Drum thread did mention clathrates once, but in general it seems to be ignored. Someone pointed out that the white ice that appeared above the 3 ram stack leak, might have been clathrates. Funny thing was that BP blew those formations off today with a pressure hose. Note the white ice-like possible clathrate formation in the image.
Oil Drum Thread with Image Link