Oil pollution in seawater, primarily visible on sea surface, becomes dispersed as an effect of
wave mixing as well as chemical dispersant treatment, and forms spherical oil droplets. In
this study, we examined the influence of oil droplet size of highly dispersed Petrobaltic crude
on the underwater visible light flux and the inherent optical properties (IOPs) of seawater,
including absorption, scattering, backscattering and attenuation coefficients. On the basis of
measured data and Mie theory, we calculated the IOPs of dispersed Petrobaltic crude oil in …