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not breaking news, while fishing this morning my kids picked up a handfull of tarballs,sure they will be around for years to come
johnson beach tar balls
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Tar Balls
I'm pretty sure that I can tell the difference between ordinary 'flotsam' and 'jetsam' and tar balls. C2
Negatory! I have spent too much misguided time surf fishing the white sands of the GOM and never noticed them before the 'Spill'.
I'm pretty sure that I can tell the difference between ordinary 'flotsam' and 'jetsam' and tar balls. C2
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Natural seepage is believed to account for 60% of the oil in North American waters. The National Academies of Science in a 2002 report estimated that 260,000 tons of oil were input into North American maritime waters annually, 1990-1999. 160,000 tons were from natural seepage.
Oil seeps occur throughout the Gulf of Mexico. In a 1972 paper titled Natural Hydrocarbon Seepage in the Gulf of Mexico, Researchers from Texas A&M University said this about the history of this seepage:
“Archaeological reports indicate that the Karankawa Indians were using tar in their pottery making in pre-Columbian times. Survivors of DeSoto’s group used tar found along the Texas-Louisiana coast to caulk their boats.
From 1902 to 1909 heavy oil slicks were noted in an area about 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast. Oil spouting into the air was reported in the same area in 1909. Oil ponds off the Sabine area are reported in a USGS publication in 1903.
Reports of seeps in the Gulf are numerous, and the Department’s study has located several general areas of seepage within and around the Gulf of Mexico.”
A Department of Energy website details studies that estimate that there may be as many as 5,000 active seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico. In the Green Canyon area of the Gulf, they estimated at least 900 individual seeps.
In a paper presented at the 2000 Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, and titled Estimates of Total Hydrocarbon Seepage into the Gulf of Mexico Based on Satellite Remote Sensing Images, one researcher estimated that 500,000 barrels of oil seep into the Gulf each year.
Oil seeps occur throughout the Gulf of Mexico. In a 1972 paper titled Natural Hydrocarbon Seepage in the Gulf of Mexico, Researchers from Texas A&M University said this about the history of this seepage:
“Archaeological reports indicate that the Karankawa Indians were using tar in their pottery making in pre-Columbian times. Survivors of DeSoto’s group used tar found along the Texas-Louisiana coast to caulk their boats.
From 1902 to 1909 heavy oil slicks were noted in an area about 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast. Oil spouting into the air was reported in the same area in 1909. Oil ponds off the Sabine area are reported in a USGS publication in 1903.
Reports of seeps in the Gulf are numerous, and the Department’s study has located several general areas of seepage within and around the Gulf of Mexico.”
A Department of Energy website details studies that estimate that there may be as many as 5,000 active seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico. In the Green Canyon area of the Gulf, they estimated at least 900 individual seeps.
In a paper presented at the 2000 Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, and titled Estimates of Total Hydrocarbon Seepage into the Gulf of Mexico Based on Satellite Remote Sensing Images, one researcher estimated that 500,000 barrels of oil seep into the Gulf each year.
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ive fished there since 2000 and never seen them until after spill,and to whom ever says they are not tarballs,i know the difference, ive seen both the balls and black rocks, know the smell, feel and sticky tar stuff.
make what you will, i know what i know and arent on here getting payed to defend the oil spill.
BLA BLA BLA, have fun with the posting
cheers:tt2:
make what you will, i know what i know and arent on here getting payed to defend the oil spill.
BLA BLA BLA, have fun with the posting
cheers:tt2:
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I'm thinking there are more plastic bottles and other garbage on Johnson's Beach than tar balls.....not to mention the stripped 21ft Mako that's high and dry out there.
I was really surprised how high up the beach all the sand had moved after Issac. Thr process of the dunes rising again has started.
Rock on
billd
I was really surprised how high up the beach all the sand had moved after Issac. Thr process of the dunes rising again has started.
Rock on
billd
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I think the comment was meant as a stop blaming BP for EVERY dark spot on the beach as there are often other factors/contributors
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A lot of the oil or tarballs on the beach is from bp but there is also other factors to with it bein a natural accurance and for those that think that storm recently didn't bring in no oil ur deff wrong our daily wheight got about 100x what is was before the storm and we still havnt got back to or around our normal weights
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Yes, but that pix is Labrador poop. :thumbup:
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Murph that's not Labrador poop...they would be much "larger"...:whistling:
I grew up in Va. Beach and spent much time on the beach...tar balls were common. Mom would always check our feet after a day at the beach and my Dad would clean them off with gasoline. There are no oil wells off the Virginia coast.
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LOL!! I was comparing them to ANNA's bombs. She's a small lab though.
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What??
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Simple terms I work on the spill there is oil on our beaches and will be forever
We used to get them at different NC and SC beaches. Probably leakage from tankers hauling Bunker C.
Went to a beach once in Del in the late 50's and it wasn't tar balls, it was thick black oil, floating on the surface.
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Simple Terms, there always was oil on our beaches, and always will be.
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