autumn —
I gotta stop you where you are. You wrote you didn’t want to eat seafood from “methane soaked waters”.
Methane is a gas. It is odorless, colorless AND tasteless, and it is NON-TOXIC. Methane would be undetectable to a human as a solute in ANY food or beverage. And it would be harmless. NET: there is no such thing as methane soaked waters, and even if there were, it is harmless to ingest.
BTW, every breath you take from the earth’s atmosphere contains methane, and it does you no harm.
Secondly methane is not a ‘carrier’ of H2S. ALL gases mix and dissolve in each other. That’s a physical gas law. The atmosphere is a ‘carrier’ of H2S— (H2S is also a gas, just like methane.) The presence or release of methane does not cause or act as a harbinger of a dangerous release of H2S. Don’t worry yourself that methane somehow makes H2S worse. Either the well releases H2S or it doesn’t — that’s a mix of geology and biology.
Bear in mind that the human nose is extraordinarily sensitive to H2S — we can smell it down to single digit parts per billion (IIRC). We smell it at low tide. We smell it in natural gas leaks (or derivatives of it) because the manufacturers add it to the odorless methane ... so we can detect the leak.
NET: don’t worry about H2S just because the well is releasing methane.
That makes me feel better. I understand it’s a gas and it’s naturally occuring, but I just could not see how the gas wouldn’t penetrate the food chain.
So you don’t think the methane (NOTE: exessive methane) would hurt the sea life?
I am not a marine biologist or scientist, just trying to research as much as I can. Fumbling around at that.
Thanks Blueflag, Freepers have so many from so many different areas... just about a guarantee SOMEONE will know something about everything.