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Red Tide in Monterey Bay
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:07 am
by 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
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:12 pm
by ScottMac
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:29 pm
by 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.
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:19 pm
by quadfin
K-man wrote: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".
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:34 pm
by Mike Fernandez
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 7:11 am
by K-man
QF,good info, thanks.Interesting to know it can possibly be tied to microbial action in algae....
cheers.
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:20 am
by JohnS
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 3:54 pm
by K-man
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:31 pm
by ScottMac
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