Deep Sea Cold Spurs Fish Kill
THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON — Up and down the beach at Ocean City, Md., they washed ashore: dead fish, rotten and smelly, victims of what scientists believe was a sudden shift in the temperature of the ocean.
More than a million Atlantic croaker fish are believed to have died in recent days off the Maryland and Delaware coasts, and many of them have turned up on the beaches from Ocean City to Delaware’s Indian River, Maryland officials said.
The fish kill, which could well be the largest in Maryland’s recent history, showed no signs of a man-made cause, such as a toxic chemical spill or pollution-fed algae bloom, said Rich McIntire of the Maryland Department of the Environment.
Instead, officials believed the fish may have been killed by a natural phenomenon called an “upwelling,” a sudden surge of cold water from the bottom of the ocean.
Irishman Shot Dead in His Riyadh Office
Abdul Rahman Al-Maafa & Mansour Al-Shahry
RIYADH, 4 August 2004
An Irishman was shot dead yesterday when armed men stormed into his office and began firing machine guns, Irish and Saudi officials said.
A spokeswoman for Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs said the man was killed at about 5 p.m.
Obviously our consular section (in Dublin) ... and our embassy in Riyadh are involved in the case and are liaising with the Saudi authorities, she said on condition of anonymity.
She would not give further details, including the man's name.
It was the second killing of an Irishman in the capital in two months.
A Saudi official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said the man was killed when at least two armed men stormed the office of the Saudi-owned Rocky for Trade and Construction and began shooting machine guns. Al-Arabiya satellite television said the slain Irishman was a 63-year-old engineer named Tony Christopher.
The channel said a gunman had burst into his office in the Al-Rawda neighborhood and shot him in the head and chest, apparently with a gun equipped with a silencer. (snipped)
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=49356&d=4&m=8&y=2004
Maybe someone tossed a 'Big Ol' stick of dynamite into the ocean?
ping!
Does this incident give the nuke scenario from a few weeks back any credibility? Someone did mention to watch for dead fish to be washing up, now here they are.
Oh my god! could it be true?