Massive Amounts Of Tar balls Cover Cocoa Beach And Cape Canaveral On The East Coast Of Central Florida
Posted by Alexander Higgins - July 8, 2010 at 1:31 pm - Permalink - Source via Alexander Higgins Blog
Massive amounts of tarballs are now hammering the Atlantic Coast of Florida and have left a large portion of Cocoa Beach in Central Florida literally covered in tarballs.
Meanwhile local Government officials have taken a move straight from the Pensacola Beach playbook and are already misleading the public into thinking that the beaches are safe.
Mellisa Cones, director of the the Cocoa Beach Chamber of Commerce, attempts to assure the public that the tarballs are not from the BP Gulf Oil Spill by saying “it’s just to thick to be coming from the west coast”.
The chamber says they’re not worried about scaring off sun worshipers.
The tar balls are being cleaned up and people are still enjoying the beach.
Their message is to come on down to the water.
“We’ve got a free beach. We’re the closest beach to Orlando.
It’s gorgeous, the weather is wonderful and we don’t have anything to worry about”, says Mellisa Cones.
Maybe she has been watching to much of the main stream media and just hasn’t seen for herself just how thick the tar balls on Pensacola Beach are.
At least one local resident isn’t buying that explanation and she tells the local news that she hasn’t seen tarballs on the beach in the probably the past 5 years or so.
Yesterday local officials were trying to play the tarballs off as being from a shrimp boat that recently sank.
It would take a very, very large shrimp boat to produce this quantity of tar balls.
Jacksonville’s new 4 has also reported that the Coast Guard has confirmed that tarballs did not come from the shrimp boat and the Coast Guard still “investigating” the source of the tar balls.
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Beach Patrol said the biggest concentrations are washing up between Minute Man Causeway and Sixth Avenue.People in Brevard County are fearing the worst — that the tar balls came from the Gulf.
“I’m just picking up the pieces and I can’t believe how big they’re coming in, and it’s all over the beach,” a beachgoer said on Tuesday.
Coast Guard members collected samples of the tar balls. Officials said it will take a week for tests to determine if the tar balls are related to the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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[Coast Guard] Officials have determined the tar balls did not come from a shrimp boat that sank in May.
Of course they didn’t come from a sunken shrimp boat. Just look at the tar balls on the beach.
Here’s a map of Florida with the marker showing the location of Cocoa Beach.
Here are reports from the local news stations in the area.
Channel 4 Jacksonville reportsTar Balls Wash Ashore In Central Fla.
Beach Patrol said the biggest concentrations are washing up between Minute Man Causeway and Sixth Avenue.
People in Brevard County are fearing the worst — that the tar balls came from the Gulf.
“I’m just picking up the pieces and I can’t believe how big they’re coming in, and it’s all over the beach,” a beachgoer said on Tuesday. …
Officials have determined the tar balls did not come from a shrimp boat that sank in May.
Watch the WOFL Fox News Report of on the tar balls washing up on Cocoa Beach, FL
That report ends with the news anchor saying that “the tar balls from the beach are still being tested but their is a very slim chance that they are from the Gulf Oil Spill. The current has not started swirling the oil this way yet.”
Maybe someone should to point her the the ROFFS independent oil tracking which has confirmed oil in the Gulf Stream up the entire East Coast of Florida.
Perhaps seeing is believing and the aerial photos of oil the Florida Keys back in May just might convince her otherwise.
WOFL Channel 35 Fox reports on the Tar ball clean up in Cocoa Beach
Clumps of sticky black tar washed up for a second day on Cocoa Beach. …
The Cocoa Beach Area Chamber of Commerce is working to control any damage that may come to businesses in the area. Its a big concern to us, as it impacts our economic engine of tourism, said Melissa Stains, President and CEO of the Chamber. …
Although it’s not yet know where the tar came from, experts believe it’s not likely it came from the gulf. Still, tourism officials will ask the county to move $350,000 from the fourth cent tourist tax to help pay for positive ads about space coast beaches.
WFTV channel 9 has a video showing that a similar coating of tarballs has hit even further north in Brevard County on the Cape Canaveral Beach.
Here are some screen shots from that video.
Update: July 8th, 2010
Caught red-handed this story is being scrubbed.
This comment pointed out he read dozens of tar balls have washed ashore.
Yes, I did indeed read that YESTERDAY that there where dozens of tarballs that have been sent for testing which is why I didn’t blog this story then.
What I did read today entirely different and what is that prompted me to publish this story was this story.
The original version read
COCOA BEACH, Fla. — The Brevard County Beach Patrol said a large amount of tar balls are washing ashore in Cocoa Beach. Beach Patrol said the biggest concentrations are washing up between Minute Man Causeway and 6th Avenue.
That was the original story that the press wires.
After it was scrubbed it read like this.
COCOA BEACH, Fla. — The Brevard County Beach Patrol said dozens of tar balls have washed ashore in Cocoa Beach. Beach Patrol said the biggest concentrations are washing up between Minute Man Causeway and 6th Avenue.
Now Just in case you think I am trying to pull a fast one for yourself the description of originally published on this story before being scrubbed by viewing the search results for the Google Query cocoa beach fl “large amount of tar balls are washing ashore”
For example check out the unscrubbed description at Road Runner at http://www.woh.rr.com/news/topicdl/article/dlt/0eYJatJ2M1aAk/05mK5cK8aN1HN/Tar_Balls_Wash_Ashore_In as it exists in the picture below at the time of this update.
Notice you it still contains the original version. But when you follow the link to read Read Full Story link the statement by the Coast Guard about the “large amounts of tar balls” is longer in the text and has been changed to dozens of tarballs.
And that is not a fluke either, there are plenty of news sources showing that exact opening line of the original article before it was scrubbed.
Let’s take for example the Yahoo result in the Google Results which read as follows before being scrubbed.
The top local news headlines from Yahoo! News – Yahoo! News
Tar Balls Wash Ashore In Central Fla. 2 hrs 56 mins ago. The Brevard County Beach Patrol said a large amount of tar balls are washing ashore in Cocoa Beach. …
news.yahoo.com/local-news/24701088/+Florida
That result shows us the exact text text from the Yahoo News page as it actually existed 2 hrs 56 mins and ago when it was indexed by Google..
But on the Yahoo News Page the story has been scrubbed.
In fact if you can even inspect the Google Cache of the Yahoo News page and Google gives you get a nice warning that the phrase is no longer on the page.
Let’s repeat the example again for the Topix result as it appears Google’s search cache.
Cocoa Beach Newswire – Topix
The Brevard County Beach Patrol said a large amount of tar balls are washing ashore in Cocoa Beach. Comment? Related Topix: Brevard County, FL …
www.topix.com/wire/city/cocoa-beach-fl
But once the story has been was updated with a scrubbed version it no longer contains that text.
Again the Google Cache for the Topix shows how the has been scrubbed and the page gives a nice warning that the text is no longer on the page.
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Now if you don’t understand how this works its is not like some one has gone to all of the sites on the internet and scrubbed the original article on each of their websites.
What has happened is the original news article was scrubbed and the original opening sentence “The Brevard County Beach Patrol said a large amount of tar balls are washing ashore in Cocoa Beach” was deleted from the article.
That sentence is still in the Google Search results cache as well as the cached results of some other websites cache including the Road Runner News page.
But other sites such as the Topix link and the Yahoo News have already updated their cache with the new “scrubbed version”.
OK, so the story was changed maybe the article had a misprint.
Highly unlikely. Why because there where widespread reports of dozens of tar balls yesterday and that was before it spread north to the Cape Canaveral Beach.
It just doesn’t make sense that there where dozens yesterday and there where wide spread reports of “large amounts of tar balls” today on Cocoa beach and then you add the additional tar balls found on Cape Canaveral beach and you are still left with the original amount of dozens.
Update July 10th
Here’s another article found on Fox News Orlando showing this was more than just a few dozen tar balls.
COCOA BEACH, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – With big black oily tar balls floating off shore and washing up on Cocoa Beach this afternoon, a similar prayer is echoing up and down the seaside town. “I’m praying they’re not from the Gulf,” said Chrissy Palmer, a bartender at Beach Shack in Cocoa Beach. “Its probably going to affect business, tourism.”
The U.S. Coast Guard will now test the tar to see if it’s actually from the BP oil spill in the Gulf. It should take a couple days to get those results.
Members of the Coast Guard spent the afternoon picking up tar ball after tar ball. Some the size of a quarter, others up to five inches wide spanned a two mile strech between Lori Wilson Park and 6th Street South. Right now its unclear if these gooey black blobs were carried by the current from disaster in the Gulf or if they came from a tanker or large ship off shore.
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the black thing are effectively TAR BALLS. But don't make me believe the pictures or brown beaches…. this cleary is ALGAE and SEA WEEDS.
Official reports say slightly more than a dozen of tar balls were found., not hundreeds nor thousands.
No need to panic. People are worried and look on the ground for everything. Coast guard say tar balls have been washing on florida beaches for the past 30 years, on many occasions. People are simply more aware of it (which is good I think).. therefore they find more of them.
But come on, the pictures, especially the first on in the article, is clearly sea weed. The article leads to thinking that they are all tar balls.
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Patrick Bureau wrote: Official reports say slightly more than a dozen of tar balls were found., not hundreeds nor thousands.
Thanks for pointing that out because when I wrote this post the news reports didn’t say “dozens”. Dozens was reported yesterday before it spread further north.
When I wrote this post the news read…
Thanks to your comment you tipped me off that they scrubbed the story and rewrote the article in the press to downplay the tar balls.
See my update on the post above.
Was it the Coast Guard that said "First tar balls come in, then large slicks follow" At least tar balls can be picked up easily.
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Great site! Wanted to let you know yourfeed quit working and there is a layout issue at beginning of this post. Could be a mistake, could be some don't like what you have to say. I know!!! katy
Great job on covering what is really going on down here on the Gulf coast.
Oh, look! Here’s another report harder to find than a clean beach in Florida…
U.S. NAVY EVACUATES GULF
On the 2nd July 2010 the Costa Rica Congress authorized the entry of 46 U.S. warships capable of carrying 200 helicopters and warplanes, plus 7,000 U.S. Marines “who may circulate the country in uniform without any restrictions” , plus submarine killer ships to the Costa Rican coast for “anti-narcotics operations and humanitarian missions between 1st July 2010 until 31st December 2010.”
On Sunday, the President of Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla said that the government does not intend to militarize the fight against drugs and the Minister of Public Security Jose Maria Tijerino stressed that this huge, powerful military force would be under the command of the US Coast Guard and not the US Navy.
Politicians representing the Acción Ciudadana (PAC), the Unidad Social Cristiana (PUSC) and the Frente Amplio (FA) political parties opposed the measure saying that the destructive force of the ships, helicopters and 7,000 US Marines is “disproportionate for the fight against drug trafficking.”
Hey, Melissa — we’ve got some ‘free balls’ (tar balls, that is)for ya’ right here…
http://www.theamericansheeple.com/specialpublication.html
You like ‘em ‘hard’ — or ‘soft’?
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The chamber says they’re not worried about scaring off sun worshipers.
The tar balls are being cleaned up and people are still enjoying the beach.
Their message is to come on down to the water.
“We’ve got a free beach. We’re the closest beach to Orlando.
It’s gorgeous, the weather is wonderful and we don’t have anything to worry about”, says Mellisa Cones.
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From the Jacksonville article:
“Coast Guard members collected samples of the tar balls. Officials said it will take a week for tests to determine if the tar balls are related to the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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[Coast Guard] Officials have determined the tar balls did not come from a shrimp boat that sank in May”
QUESTION:
If the Coast Guard can readily determine/dismiss that the tar balls are NOT from a sunken vessel from last May, how in God’s earth can it take a week to determine if it was from the BP disaster? Did they perform a test on it to make such a determination? Was it psychic powers?
I smell a major stall maneuver. The oil is creeping by surface and current around Florida and yet none from the Govt are aware of it? Strange, don’t you say?
I will be vacationing in Cocoa Beach next week, scheduled to arrive Sunday morning (the 11th), staying in South Cocoa. I'll let you know what we find…. plan on doing several long beach walks.
Also be sure to check out Cape Canaveral Beach which is somewhere to the north.
Went out to Cocoa Beach last night. Found five small tarballs along a quarter mile stretch South of minutemen causeway.
tar balls..dont any of you wish you had balls to get after the fiends of bp who did this..on purpose…the untied snakes is sinking faster than the titanic ladies and germs…our former republic has turned into a fascist cluster fuck..there are people right now in this country who are insane..and they are in charge..what are you going to do? i know what i am going too do,i am going out too destroy these people..one by one..i am that i am..
I think the author needs to learn the difference between "to" and "too", as well as "they're", "there", and "their" if he ever wants to be taken seriously as a journalist.
The city officials are spicing things up. At the beginning of the article, it states
“The chamber says they’re not worried about scaring off sun worshipers.
The tar balls are being cleaned up and people are still enjoying the beach.
Their message is to come on down to the water.
“We’ve got a free beach. We’re the closest beach to Orlando.
It’s gorgeous, the weather is wonderful and we don’t have anything to worry about”, says Mellisa Cones.
Well, who in their right mind would swim in polluted water? Most people don’t trust the EPA. The chemical used to disperse the oil are quite dangerous! Why take a chance? If there are tar balls there, there must be chemicals in the tar balls since the crap is being sprayed directly into the geyser of oil. If there are chemicals in the tar balls, might there me chemicals in the water? I’m not going swimming there! I’d like to see Cheney and Bush swim there, or even Obama. They know better!
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Where In The Hell Do You Think Where The Tar Ball's Came From?,You Retard's!
People know the difference between sea weed and tar balls. You must work for BP!
spelling…? really…?
The peowr of the sbuonoucics mnid to ovresbe the nrtaual wlord is oeftn oerkovoled by the ccouisnos mnid.
Now on to something that matters.
if you haven’t already seen it, BP has supposedly given the chemical analysis of the oil in the resevoir, it reveals many things, it also corresponds with the information I have concerning the geology in the Mississippi/Macondo area.
Very very revealing of some things that can be used with Darcy’s law to estimate some other things about what they haven’t told us. Cross-referenced, this was a very interesting read.
Also just caught Halliburton on my site and posted the screen-caps. Along with their friends the Flowserve corporation. Look them up, lol. I called them out on my site because they make the pumps for the E.O.R. waterfloods in the Mississippi canyon projects. They are also involved in this all. East Independence Hub, Ursa-Princess,adjacent Mississippi canyon blocks near the Horizon site , also joint BP projects. Superdense de-oxygenated and heavily chlorinated water is injected back into non producing fields to ” supercharge ” them and cause fluid migrations back to “traps” or reservoirs. It is done in the Deep gulf waterflood areas because it kills the microbes that normally produce H2S gas as a product of their digestion of methane. It is supposed to prevent a field from turning “sour.” (high sulfur) …However,… given the ability of microbial life to circumnavigate environmental stress by way of rapid evolutionary adaptation from fast proliferation rates , various studies have also shown that in some cases the microbes were right back in the treated reservoirs after just 2 years producing H2S gas again… Mother nature is tenacious to the Nth degree.
…any way, I have screencaps of the analysis of the oil, and some other info pertaining to what it reveals about the geology, by way of mineral content and dissolved gas ratios.
http://mentaljudo.blogspot.com/
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Reports are now coming in that the Dispersant Corexit 9500 levels are 450 times the safe levels. What this means is it will kill anyting and everthing that comes in contact with it as in all sealife in the gulf, you going in the gulf ocean or east coast, walking along the beach, sea mist and spray, breathing the air and rain! BP has killed the gulf and now they are going to kill you!
This is a massive cover up. Oil has been in the loop current for weeks now, anyone with a brain knows this is the oil from BP’s oil and methane volcano that is out of control. The only thing that can stop it is a nuke but then you risk exploding the 100 mile wide bubble of methane on the ocean floor, this area is fault line.
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Florida and the gulf is DOOMED! Toxic rain will coat the entire area,black beachs,dead oceans, land fires and once the oil volcano stops erupting it’s several billion barrels of oil, the sea floor will collapse and then a 20 to 100 foot high tsunami wave will hit the gulf coast and will leave the area from 50 to 200 miles inland devoid of life! everything in Florida destroyed from coast to coast!
Good post dude.
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