Red Tide in Monterey Bay

[surfhorn]

The heavy duty red tide that we've been experiencing may be a lot worse than first thought. We have also had a mysterious 'toxic spill' that has been affecting sea life and now the two are starting to be linked.

Surfers have been experiencing sinus and other troubles. An it takes about 3
flushes to get one's wetsuit clean.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/story. ... &sid=51080

[ScottMac]

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[K-man]

Don't know if it's a rumor.Benzine.....is a word I've been hearing lately.Can't make the connection to the spill,supposedly they're linked.

[quadfin]

Don't know if it's a rumor.Benzine.....is a word I've been hearing lately.Can't make the connection to the spill,supposedly they're linked.

Having been in the environmental remediation business it is natural to want to put a single label/source on a contamination issue. I suspect that there is a sequence of events that have started a chemical process that is probably changing daily.

Benzene condenses at somewhere below 40 F if I remember correctly and would be boiling up thru the water column and getting airborne unless it is getting tied up with some type of microbial action in a host like algae.

An oldtimer summed the process up for me when I did my first bio-remediation job by stating "the little f...ers (microbes) don't have no legs and have to eat themselves from place to place".

[Mike Fernandez]

I'd advise everybody to stay out of the water around here for the next month or so...

Scott, that's the funniest quick response I have read in a while! Good one

[K-man]

QF,good info, thanks.Interesting to know it can possibly be tied to microbial action in algae....


cheers.

[JohnS]

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[K-man]

As of today

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=7430752&nav=9qrx

[ScottMac]

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