Posted on 07/07/2010 2:59:13 PM PDT by TaraP
University of South Florida coastal geologists (left to right) Stoddard Pickrel, Katie Brutsché, and Jun Cheng dig into a beach near Pensacola Beach, Florida (map), on Thursday. It didn't take long for the scientists to strike black gold.
During a series of digs, oil patties and tarballs were found just beneath beaches dirtied by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The discoveries suggest that toxic oil lies hidden under even "clean" patches of beaches along the U.S. Gulf Coast—and that oil-spill cleanup crews are only scratching the surface.
Because the buried oil is both harder to clean and slower to break down, it could be a long-lasting threat to beachgoers, both animal and human, experts say.
Don’t expect that picture to be in WaPo unless it’s under the headline, “Cap & Trade Needed Now”.
If it got there it can also wash back out and the bacteria will finish it off Unless they are saying the beach is growing 3 inches every month and will continue to rise forever.
As reported by the toxic media.
Amazing that these people were actually allowed on the beach, and allowed to take pictures.
According to ANDERSON COOPER and CNN, no one can get near a beach, nor take pictures.
He wouldn’t be lying just to cover for why CNN hasn’t been broadcasting any pictures..... would he?
I mean, if you can’t trust CNN, who can you trust????
How did it get there? If it a foot deep under the sand then it didn’t get there from the BP well. How long has it been there and where did it come from?
Katie in search of a tar ball. In the sand, Katie! In the sand!
I wonder if the reason this oil is ‘under’ the sand is because BP and contractors have been spreading white sand all over the beaches to cover the oil?
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They can’t report this! The BP/White House media control patrol will be making a little visit to their abodes soon..........
The ocean also puts new sand on the beach every time the tide comes in.
There are several possibilities, including the one you mentioned, for why it is there.
Should I be getting into the carpet cleaning business?
Where are the infomercials selling tar remover?
Has anyone tried to use these tarballs for a bonfire?
The greatest opportunities occur during a crisis.
That was my first thought and they do not make it clear. They insinuate that it will stay there
They could not do this under cover of darkness. Trucks full of sand and equipment to spread it, they would have been seen. Galveston’s beaches were built up by pumping sand from just off shore onto the beach. It took a long time and required a barge that had the equipment on it in plain view from the beach. Erosion takes sand from some places along the shore and washes it up on other places. At least that is the way on the Texas coast, don’t know about other places. Hurricanes also change the beach.
I was wondering if there was any merit to tilling this oil up and mixing it with said fertilizer. Or, perhaps, finding an anaerobic organism that could be injected or poured down into the sand to eat this stuff up.
Nice tarball photo you have there.
Check out this video.
At appears the they are just trucking in sand and burying the spill on the beaches
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaHJf1GLD1E
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