Sea Life Flocks To Coast To Avoid BP Gulf Oil Spill As Millions of Dead Fish Float Ashore
Posted by Alexander Higgins - June 17, 2010 at 4:02 am - Permalink - Source via Alexander Higgins Blog
Loading ...Here’s a press release from the Associated Press titled Sea creatures flee oil spill, gather near shore.
The story is aggravating on many levels, not just the animals are facing environmental Armageddon that is nothing short of ECOCIDE, but because of the mass misrepresentation of the facts by the story that does little more than aid and abet BP and enable them to continue their media blackout and shove their mass campaign of disinformation down throats of the public.
I will interject my comments in bold lettering.
By JAY REEVES, JOHN FLESHER and TAMARA LUSH (AP) – 10 hours ago
GULF SHORES, Ala. — Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again.
Marine scientists studying the effects of the BP disaster are seeing some strange — and troubling — phenomena.
Suprisingly? Strange? Really. Their is nothing that is “surprisingly” or strange about animals fleeing from a stew of black tide and the neurotoxin pesticides that BP has sprayed to hide the oil from the public.
Fish and other wildlife are fleeing the oil out in the Gulf and clustering in cleaner waters along the coast. But that is not the hopeful sign it might appear to be, researchers say.
The animals’ presence close to shore means their usual habitat is badly polluted, and the crowding could result in mass die-offs as fish run out of oxygen. Also, the animals could easily get devoured by predators.
Could result in mass die-offs? Come again. How about will and already has resulted in mass die-offs is more like it. There are already reports of thousands of dead fish washing up in two locations Florida, in Alabama, in Mississippi and millions of dead fish in Louisiana
Millions of dead fish from oil spill in Louisiana - No that's not a road... Its dead fish.
“A parallel would be: Why are the wildlife running to the edge of a forest on fire? There will be a lot of fish, sharks, turtles trying to get out of this water they detect is not suitable,” said Larry Crowder, a Duke University marine biologist.
The nearly two-month-old oil spill has created an environmental catastrophe unparalleled in U.S. history as tens of millions of gallons of have spewed into the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. Scientists are seeing some unusual things as they try to understand the effects on thousands of species of marine life.
“Scientists are seeing some unusual things as they try to understand the effects on thousands of species of marine life”. This sounds so ridiculous to me. This isn’t the first oil spill that has ever happened although BP and Government seem to be pretending it is at every corner. But for the media to report scientists are now trying to understand the effects of an oil spill as if it where the first time is absolutely absurd.
Day by day, scientists in boats tally up dead birds, sea turtles and other animals, but the toll is surprisingly small given the size of the disaster. The latest figures show that 783 birds, 353 turtles and 41 mammals have died — numbers that pale in comparison to what happened after the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska in 1989, when 250,000 birds and 2,800 otters are believed to have died.
I wonder if the BP Media Blackout has anything to do with the numbers? I mean there are wide spread of reports about BP workers mutilating and hiding carcasses of dead animals and not reporting them as Keith Olbmerman reports. An what about the millions of fish I just mentioned?
Researchers say there are several reasons for the relatively small death toll: The vast nature of the spill means scientists are able to locate only a small fraction of the dead animals. Many will never be found after sinking to the bottom of the sea or getting scavenged by other marine life. And large numbers of birds are meeting their deaths deep in the Louisiana marshes where they seek refuge from the onslaught of oil.
Funny how you neglect to mention BP destroying evidence of dead animals.
Also funny how the article seems to discount all of the dead fish like the ones above.
“That is their understanding of how to protect themselves,” said Doug Zimmer, spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
For nearly four hours Monday, a three-person crew with Greenpeace cruised past delicate islands and mangrove-dotted inlets in Barataria Bay off southern Louisiana. They saw dolphins by the dozen frolicking in the oily sheen and oil-tinged pelicans feeding their young. But they spotted no dead animals.
“I think part of the reason why we’re not seeing more yet is that the impacts of this crisis are really just beginning,” Greenpeace marine biologist John Hocevar said.
Or maybe we are already seeing the evidence, it’s just the media isn’t reporting it.
As for the fish, locals are seeing large schools hanging around piers where fishing has been banned; apparently the fish feel safer now that they are not being disturbed by fishermen.
Yep. Its apparent all these animals are flocking to the shore because they aren’t being bothered by fisherman. Has nothing to do with oil right?
Also, researchers believe fish are swimming closer to shore because the water is cleaner and more abundant in oxygen. Father out in the Gulf, researchers say, the spill is not only tainting the water with oil but also depleting oxygen levels.
“Also” further out in the gulf there is oil. Do you not think we don’t see pictures of oil on the beaches every day? I mean hundreds of tarballs have washed up on one Florida beach last night alone. It is so bad that local Florida officials have decided ignore BP and the feds and act on their own to fight the oil, even though the face criminal charges and prosecution for doing so.
A similar scenario occurs during “dead zone” periods — the time during summer months when oxygen becomes so depleted that fish race toward shore in large numbers. Sometimes, so many fish gather close to the shoreline off Mobile that locals rush to the beach with tubs and nets to reap the harvest.
Yeah there you go. Journalistic foreshadowing. That’s a hint of excuses that will be made in the future as millions more dead animals wash up on the shore.
But this latest shore migration could prove deadly.
First, more oil could eventually wash ashore and overwhelm the fish. They could also become trapped between the slick and the beach, leading to increased competition for oxygen in the water and causing them to die as they run out of air.
“Their ability to avoid it may be limited in the long term, especially if in near-shore refuges they’re crowding in close to shore, and oil continues to come in. At some point they’ll get trapped,” Crowder said. “It could lead to die-offs.”
I love this, I really do. All of the oxygen disappearing from the sea is because there are to many fish. It has nothing to due with the methane or oil depleting the oxygen and creating dead zones, its just because there are two many fish.
I mean the methane gas release that is reported to be 3000 times worse than oil and is 100% absorbed into the sea and was responsible for the dinosaur extinction and is known to cause dead zones has nothing to do with the oxygen depletion, right?
Well, now that I think about it, it’s kind of like summer time. When to many people gather on a beach some start dying because there isn’t enough oxygen for all of them. Now it makes sense. I am just so stupid some times.
The fish could also fall victim to predators such as sharks and seabirds. Already there have been increased shark sightings in shallow waters along the Gulf Coast.
The counting of dead wildlife in the Gulf is more than an academic exercise; the deaths will help determine how much BP pays in damages.
Yeah, it is an academic exercise alright. We need the best and brightest scientists and PHDs to count dead animals. Oh that’s right its “denial by default”. Those millions of dead fish that have died already and the millions more that will die will mostly likely never be autopsied. It is easier and cheaper for the Government and less harsh on BP to just make up some other excused as to why they have died.
Roger Helm, chief of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s contaminants division, said the government expects a battle with BP over the extent of the damage and has every incentive to be scientifically credible.
“Both sides go to their own corner and interpret the data the way they want,” Helm said. “This is a legal process, and if we can’t get an agreement we’ll end up in court.”
Scientific and credible, you say. I am sure BP is playing by those rules. GIVE ME PROOF!!!. How many dead animals have been reported by BP clean up workers? How many?
Here’s What’s Really Happening In Grand Isle
That’s what’s happening on the Gulf coast.
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What is this fresh folly?
A cheese grater folding upon itself
Upsidedown lucky horseshoe.
A brown cloud of steady bleeding
Cables, nozzles, robot arms that bump into everything.
I have been meditating on a gusher
Of underwater oil.
Images cross my mind as I watch.
One day I saw a skull in the plume.
But that was just dispersant.
I looked at the turtle, the pelican, the dolphin, the fish, the plankton.
The dolphin will escort you to shore, if you go too deep.
But if the water is brown with thick crude,
There is no help for anyone.
There may be no help anymore.
When we lose our minds
Just to have convenience.
Myself, I would rather work like an animal
Than sit and watch machines do work.
Why would I have this body, if not to use it.
I looked at the dolphin again. It laid there, all brown.
I thought, I have lost an irreplacable friend.
My friend, whose brain is the size of mine, only smarter,
Has gone to the other side.
Industrial revolution: l-i-s-t-e-n.
The earth was not especially designed
To have great holes poked into it’s circulatory system.
Pipes and pumps everywhere, leaking it’s very blood,
Just to burn it straight into it’s breath.
What shall humans turn out to be?
A pox or a pax?
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Below are the links to the MMS documents that were written ten years ago detailing this very blowout, what wont work and why…they knew this was going to happen….why do you think there are less than 500 wells drilled into this deep-water area..?
If anything, simply for educational purposes, read some of the things I’ve found….
http://mentaljudo.blogspot.com/2010/06/h...
http://mentaljudo.blogspot.com/2010/06/h...
http://mentaljudo.blogspot.com/
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@Alice, well said, thanks for that.
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Dangit, sorry Alex, everybody, let’s try those links again,,..
This ones is about why burning is not effective
http://www.mms.gov/tarprojects/259/AMOP-In%20Situ%20Burning%20of%206%20oils.pdf
This one is about blowout scenarios and show all about why a deepwater blowout is a nightmare, and why dispersants are ineffective after 6 hours.
http://www.slross.com/publications/mms/349AA.pdf
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As this cataclysmic disaster unfolds, I fear so much, but then become exceedingly angry at the absolute arrogance of these perpetrators, at their absolute power tactics, and their absolute ignorance of the rights of other living creatures on this earth. Who made them god?
I have a photo of a drill rig very near one of the nature reserves of my country – South Africa. It belongs to Transocean, and the Discovery Luanda rig dropped anchor this morning, after apparently changing into drilling gear, and now seems ready to start drilling, exploring this pristine area for oil, even as the world starts bleeding to death.
Is there any rig “expert” out there I could send these photogrtaphs to in order to confirm what the rig is outfitted for? is she indeed drilling? Previous photogrpahs of the rig has her minus any piping inside her drilling structure, and nothing topping it either. The “new” rig has yellow piping inside and looks more equipped than before,a nd the center drilling structure has been topped with a metal structure as well.
I know this is nearly impossible to believe, but this rig has been around here for nearly 5 weeks while the GOM has been hemoraging crude and gas – the bastards will never stop. They have no respect for anyone. They will never stop of their own volition, no matter how many sickening little sorry-state speeches they conduct in public. While they pretend to cry sorry tears, they drill, drill, drill, as fast as they can.
Please let me know ASAP. I am trying to get this into our newspapers, where the GOM disaster has not even featured yet – completely blanked out via cencorship?
Please respond soon. I have nowhere else to go for support. There are many of us here who care deeply for the earth and its inhabitants. I need to get public opinion going on this, while all the world is focussed on the world cup, playing soccer right across the bay from the rig, where she is hiding behind Robben Island.
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The more I learn about this industry, the more the current events in the Gulf make sense..
Oil and various hydrocarbon gas products like hydrogen, methane, ethane, propane hexane, etc, etc. under pressure, are stored in fragile underground artificially produced salt dome caverns on the Gulf coast. Natural gas is force-injected under great pressure into depleted oil and gas reservoirs, aquifers, and salt caverns for future use.Here is a link to a page with many technical papers showing how much leaking happens, as well as how it is responsible for causing earthquakes..
With such interesting titles as : Deep Mobile Gases/Relation to Earthquakes / Earthquake Predictions Based on Gas Flux / Content of Hydrocarbons from drilling mud as a function of tectonic activity…..go read them.
http://eti-geochemistry.com/flux/index.html
So , all these underground leaky caverns in the area that is known to be seismically long over-due for a movement The New Madrid faultline. Another absolutely brilliant strategy
Why are they mined on the coast ?
They are mined on the coast in the hopes that when they leak, and they do, quite often, they will only be leaking right back into the natural hydrocarbon pathways that line our continental shelf. .
Construction of each cavern takes approximately two years. In a process called solution mining, they drill a well deep into a natural salt dome and begin injecting water into the well, where it circulates and dissolves the salt. They remove the very salty water, called brine, often by forcing high-pressure natural gas into the cavern to displace the liquid into the water table.Next option is to reinject it through another well into existing salt water reservoirs located in porous or fractured rocks about a mile deep, well below the base of the area’s drinking water table or release it in an under-sea ” brine diffuser ” in the Gulf.
The rest at, ….
http://mentaljudo.blogspot.com/
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Well said, Alice. Great poem about a terrible tragedy. So sad.
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