Looks natural, whatever it is.
Posted on 10/12/2024 10:21:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin
White blobs have been washing up on the beaches of Newfoundland recently, sparking an investigation by Canadian officials.
They have been described by resident Stan Tobin as doughy - "like someone had tried to bake bread and done a lousy job" - with an odour reminiscent of vegetable oil.
Beachcombers on the southern tip of the Canadian province began reporting the strange substance around early September.
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Photos of the substance began cropping up on a beachcombers group online, prompting speculation that it was fungus or mold, palm oil, paraffin wax or even ambergris - a rare and valuable substance produced by whales and used in the perfume industry.
One poster suggested it looked like dough used to make 'Toutons' - a regional dish of dough often fried in pork fat.
A spokesperson for Environment and Climate Change Canada told the Globe and Mail that the substance was not a petroleum hydrocarbon, petroleum lubricant, biofuel or biodiesel.
While a marine ecologist for Fisheries and Oceans Canada told the newspaper it was not a sea sponge and contained no biological material.
The blobs were spotted along the shores of Placentia Bay, on Newfoundland's southeast coast.
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is this a setup for Chris Christie
At least in 1958 a Blob allowed that young actor Steve McQueen to get his break. Wonder if he ever made it in Hollywood later on.
https://www.criterion.com/films/630-the-blob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-heIT3L9Qg
It’s NDP voters.
CC
No, no it didn’t.
...or even ambergris - a rare and valuable substance produced by whales and used in the perfume industry...
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That is some weird stuff. Produced in the GI tract of whales, apparently to coat foreign objects so they don’t do damage. Then the whales either barf it up or die and decay and the globs of it float to the surface and wash up on beaches. It then gets collected for making perfume. At full strength it smells nasty but highly diluted in alcohol it has a distinctive and very pleasing sweet smell. There is such a thing as synthetic ambergris but the best (and priciest) perfumes and colognes use the real thing.
Looks natural, whatever it is.
When Steve McQueen left auto racing to take up acting he was the one to teach his future wife Ali McGraw how to drive during a movie shooting. She hadn’t had her driver’s license until the Getaway scenes had her actually driving except in the worst crash scenes.
After Bullitt I wonder if she could tell a cop “But this is how my husband taught me to drive.”
Uma Thurman in Kill Bill 2 drove in some scenes a stunt driver should have done and to this day suffers from a neck and back injury for which she sued Quentin Tarrantino. He didn’t even use the worst scene in the final cut. He locked up the films of the scene where she was hurt so it couldn’t be used in court against him. Sort of like today’s coverups.
Ben. My guess is that these are non degradable diaper wipes or maxipads dumped in the waste cistern of a ship which was later pumped out into the ocean. Or just toilet paper from a local town’s sewer system.
AmbergrisConnect how to identify ambergris
After WWI thousands of tons of munitions were dumped in the north sea off of Germany. Some of the phosphorous shells have been degrading and the phosphorus has been washing ashore. People find it in the surf and thinking it is valuable ambergris, pick it up and it ignites and they get burned.
A dead seabird choking on a diaper wipe maybe.
Residue from members of the “View” swimming nearby, perhaps?
Probably “sea pork.” Dead and deteriorated.
I think it is a type of tunicate that normally is attached to underwater rocks but can wash ashore after big storms or hurricanes.
...But then they say it is not biological.
Interesting — thanks
...was not a sea sponge and contained no biological material.
Last time I saw reports of this kind of thing was after I spent a day swimming.
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