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FReeper Eye Witness Account - Tar Balls 3.5 miles from Navarre Beach (Vanity)
Free Republic ^ | 6/5/10 | highimpact

Posted on 06/05/2010 11:43:48 AM PDT by highimpact

Just got back from exploring the beach. I stopped at 3 locations, the main Navarre Beach parking lot (no tar balls found). 3.5 miles west of the main beach parking lot (scattered tar balls, no more than 1 every 10-15 feet, and very small...no larger than a dime). 7.0 miles west of Navarre Beach has been hit hard. Tar balls are everywhere, and up to the size of the sole on my 10M shoe. They are sticky and slimy, with roughly the consistency of petroleum jelly. They stick to the bottom of your shoes when you walk. Surprisingly, when I picked up a small tar ball and held it up to my nose, it didn't smell like much of anything.

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KEYWORDS: balls; oil; spill; tar
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To: Allegra

I hear you. :)


41 posted on 06/05/2010 1:18:43 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: combat_boots

No problem. :)


42 posted on 06/05/2010 1:19:37 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: combat_boots

dalereed obviously has some psychological issues. Sort of like a toddler throwing a temper tantrum just to get mommy to pay attention to him. He probably suffered some form of abuse as a child, either sexually, physically, or emotionally at the hands of a family member. Gotta feel sorry for somebody like that. Hopefully, he can get the help he needs, so he doesn’t spend the rest of his life miserable and unloved.


43 posted on 06/05/2010 1:27:44 PM PDT by highimpact (Abortion - [n]: human sacrifice at the altar of convenience.)
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To: highimpact

There were tar balls at Portofino, but also cleanup crews. I don’t know if 0bamao and his band of idiots plan to have cleanup crews on every beach indefinitely, but I guess it is one way to get the unemployment figures down.


44 posted on 06/05/2010 1:55:42 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (The 0bama regime represents an "Clear and Present Danger" to the US - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

I didn’t see any cleanup workers. At one point, a helicopter flew over about 50 feet over the surf, obviously surveying the area. There’s no way they can keep the beaches clean based on the rate the tar balls are washing in. I don’t even know why they’d bother until after they contain the spill.


45 posted on 06/05/2010 2:05:30 PM PDT by highimpact (Abortion - [n]: human sacrifice at the altar of convenience.)
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To: highimpact
I don’t even know why they’d bother until after they contain the spill.

Those were my thoughts also.

46 posted on 06/05/2010 2:08:35 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (The 0bama regime represents an "Clear and Present Danger" to the US - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: highimpact

For some reason my box rejects Google Earth. It used to work just fine. I have uninstalled it and reinstalled but it doesn’t work anymore.


47 posted on 06/05/2010 3:10:27 PM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: highimpact

Ivan messed up the beaches in 2004 and they’re better now than they were then due to the dredging.


48 posted on 06/05/2010 3:31:54 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (A blind clock finds a nut at least twice a day.)
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To: highimpact
Highimpact's photos

Tarball photo 1 Navarre

Tarball photo 2 Navarre

Tarball photo 3 Navarre

49 posted on 06/05/2010 3:37:26 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Allegra

Ear plugs are suggested to read his posts. FR’s resident curmudgeon indeed.

I don’t mean that in a bad way.


50 posted on 06/05/2010 3:40:28 PM PDT by listenhillary (You might be a modern LIBERAL if you read 1984 & said "YEAH! That's the world that I want!")
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To: The Sons of Liberty

$18 to $32 per hour to clean up seems a bit high to me, although it requires 12 hour shifts for some reason.


51 posted on 06/05/2010 3:42:53 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: skr
Call all the local Indians!
They can reseal their Birch-Bark-Canoes, again.
We've been manicuring those beaches for way too long, anyway.
It's nice to see the earth reclaim it's "pristine state". (ah hahahahaha)
52 posted on 06/05/2010 3:46:51 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: Eagle Eye

“Ivan messed up the beaches in 2004 and they’re better now than they were then due to the dredging.”

I was here. I lost my house when Ivan’s storm surge ripped out my ground floor and the wind tore the roof off my house. The beaches WERE better yesterday than they were in 2004. With millions of tar balls washing ashore, you can’t say that anymore.


53 posted on 06/05/2010 5:19:06 PM PDT by highimpact (Abortion - [n]: human sacrifice at the altar of convenience.)
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To: skr

Thanks skr!


54 posted on 06/05/2010 5:19:44 PM PDT by highimpact (Abortion - [n]: human sacrifice at the altar of convenience.)
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To: highimpact
OCEAN FLOOR REDUCED BY OIL PRODUCTION November 18, 1999 (Santa Barbara, Calif.) Next time you step on a glob of tar on a beach in Santa Barbara County, you can thank the oil companies that it isn't a bigger glob. The same is true around the world, on other beaches where off-shore oil drilling occurs, say scientists, although Santa Barbara's oil seeps are thought to be among the leakiest. Natural seepage of hydrocarbons from the ocean floor in the northern Santa Barbara Channel has been significantly reduced by oil production, according to two recently published peer-reviewed articles, one in November's Geology Magazine, the other in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans. The Santa Barbara Channel provides an excellent natural laboratory, as it is among the areas with the highest levels of seepage in the world, said co-author Bruce P. Luyendyk, professor and chair of the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The studies were not funded by oil companies, but rather by the University of California Energy Institute and the U.S. Minerals Management Service, states Luyendyk, responding to the fact that the results favor off-shore oil production and are opposed by some environmentalists. "We've done a good piece of science," said Luyendyk. "We've developed a good understanding of a natural process. It's all public data; it's all straightforward. If I thought the study was compromised I wouldn't be involved in it." Most of the seepage is methane, a potent greenhouse gas which escapes into the atmosphere, said Luyendyk. About 10 percent of the seepage is composed of "higher hydrocarbons," or reactive organic gases which interact with tailpipe emissions and sunlight, creating air pollution. The researchers state that the production rate of these naturally-occurring reactive organic gases is equal to twice the emission rate from all the on-road vehicle traffic in Santa Barbara County in 1990. According to the articles, studies of the area around Platform Holly showed a 50 percent decrease in natural seepage over 22 years. The researchers show that as the oil was pumped out the reservoir, pressure that drives the seepage dropped. "If the decrease in natural seepage found near Platform Holly is representative of the effect of oil production on seepage worldwide, then this has the potential to significantly alter global oil and gas seepage in the future," state the researchers in the article "The World's Most Spectacular Marine Hydrocarbon Seeps: Quantification of Emissions " in the Sept. 14 issue of the Journal of Geological Research - Oceans. They continue, "For example if the 50 percent reduction in natural seepage rate that occurred around Platform Holly also occurred due to future oil production from the oil field beneath the La Goleta seep, this would result in a reduction in nonmethane hydrocarbon emission rates equivalent to removing half of the on-road vehicle traffic from Santa Barbara County. In addition, a 50 percent reduction in seepage from the La Goleta seep would remove about 25 barrels of oil per day from the sea surface, which in turn would result in a 15 percent reduction in the amount of tar found on Santa Barbara beaches." They conclude by saying that the rate of increase of global methane atmospheric concentrations has been declining for the past 20 years, and that a "worldwide decrease in natural hydrocarbon seepage related to onshore and offshore oil production may be causing a global reduction in natural methane emission rates.
55 posted on 06/05/2010 5:33:30 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (*)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Html translates poorly.


56 posted on 06/05/2010 5:34:13 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (*)
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To: Jet Jaguar

I read your copy/paste article. What’s your point? I don’t have a problem with oil companies drilling for oil. I blame the environmentalists for making them drill 70 miles offshore, 5,000 feet below the ocean surface. There’s plenty of oil just offshore in less than 500 feet of water, or on land in the US.


57 posted on 06/05/2010 5:44:24 PM PDT by highimpact (Abortion - [n]: human sacrifice at the altar of convenience.)
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To: skr

“$18 to $32 per hour to clean up seems a bit high to me, although it requires 12 hour shifts for some reason.”

From what I’ve seen in the last week, they spend most of those 12 hours walking around with walkie-talkies, looking concerned.


58 posted on 06/05/2010 5:45:52 PM PDT by highimpact (Abortion - [n]: human sacrifice at the altar of convenience.)
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To: highimpact

Navarre Beach

Is that some location along the Gulf Coast?


59 posted on 06/05/2010 5:49:54 PM PDT by deport
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To: deport

“Is that some location along the Gulf Coast?”

Yep. About 20 miles due east of Pensacola.


60 posted on 06/05/2010 6:07:43 PM PDT by highimpact (Abortion - [n]: human sacrifice at the altar of convenience.)
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