RED TIDE AGAIN!

[K-man]

Anyone notice the water color?Brownish tint,kind of foamy.Any strange flu like symptoms?
Surfed a few hrs yesterday,then that night with itchy ears throat.,,runny nose,thrashed about,finally had to sleep in the dog house.
Always appears this time of year,when the water warms-wonderful for those insidious little buggers-Got a pair of good nose clips,seems to help,although I get weird glances.
There are several dif species of these dinoflaggelates,and not sure which this one is.So..if ya feel kind of funky,what it is,thats it!
Can't take antihistimes-make me feel like dog-squat.

[ScottMac]

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[Jon Manss]

Actually Scott the Red tide bloom in SC is waning, It was real heavy a month ago.

[K-man]

greetings,

This is my second day,of this crap.Cleared up last night,no hacking,gagging,sneezing.Mde a few phone calls further north,bodega area got it,all the way to p. arena!
Need agood NW breeze to push it offshore,and cool the water down.There's a small rideable swell.........Anyways nose plugs work well-not those skinny little plastic ones,salt water turns them to mush.The good ones have stainless frames.they work well-tough breathing thru the mouth,ya wanna surf???

K

[DrStrange]

Still some at Salmon yesterday though didn't much notice it today. Bad sore throat in middle of night and when woke up. Thought I was going to get something serious, but it vanished after a big glass of water and meditation.

My last couple years in Santa Barbara I would get really ill every time I surfed after a storm flushed the creeks. Never before that. Nasty people. What they putting in our waterways.

[Eric Carson]

Last Fall, Central Florida had 6 weeks of red tide. Working in a lifeguard tower was absolute hell! We were issued masks , but they didn't help much. Chewing Big Red gum helped to mask the burn in our throats. During the worst week, no one could sit on the beach except for a French Canadian group. they were chain smoking fools. French AND Canadian
Red tide is common on the gulf side of Florida but rare on the east coast.
I hope I never see that crap again.

[K-man]

http://www.redtidealert.com/




scroll down to the complaints...and you can stuff anything up your nose,ears or your tweety..organic,non organic,vegetable,mineral,perform various religious,satantic,voodoo rituals--don't matter-it's got as much chance as a fart in a typhoon.The stuff is insidious.

cheers

PS.Big-5 Has the plugs..SPEEDO be the name.

[Poidog]

hiya kman,


thanks for posting that link, it was a very interesting read.
always wondered why oceanside had that weird color to it, not always
but i have seen it like that several times just thought it was just dirty
water from some drain run off close by, good lookn out kman, saved me from getting sick.

[KAVA]

well i am sure everyone noticed the encroaching ride tide at the HB/NB gathering. started out with nice blue green water and ended with tomato soup!

[Bud]

Why ?........ you might ask.
http://www.whoi.edu/redtide/whathabs/whathabs.html

http://www.whoi.edu/redtide/

[ScottMac]

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[K-man]

Here it is again.A week of s.east winds and this sh.t finds it's way into our little bay
Got a feeling this stuff incubabates off sf, past the sewer outfall zone,then gets pushed onto the beaches.
Seems there's scientific data that equates sewage,especially urine;[food I imagine] in the formation of the organism.

[ScottMac]

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[kage]

Been out every day this week, most excellent, but no sign of red tide. One possiblility - it's too dark when I go out pre-dawn and I'm not seeing it. Option two - the light makes it start cooking, so it's not as bad in the early AM? Warm water though that's for sure.