oil on beach

[Kurt]

Tarballs, dead starfish wash up on beaches | tarballs, beaches, wash - News - The News Herald

PANAMA CITY BEACH ? A handful of tarballs and dead starfish washed ashore in Panama City Beach this weekend, but county officials said the events are not related. BP reconnaissance and recovery crews have been picking up ?miniscule amounts? of tarballs and oiled debris every day since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, emergency services director Mark Bowen said. The ?very, very small amount? ? about three-quarters of a pound ? of tarballs the teams picked up between Sunday and Monday on the west end of the beach isn?t an unusual amount, he added.
The starfish kill was the result of the weekend?s cold weather, Bowen said. Coast Guard officials advised that extreme temperatures often kill starfish and other invertebrates, and that the amount of dead animals seen near the city pier wasn?t uncommon for this time of year.

 

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Wow...sort of a coincidence that the GCCF sent out Quick Claim and Full Review Final payment forms last Friday. I'm sure ALOT of people will take the Quick Claim option, thinking we are in the clear now.
I'm back to my original thoughts...our beautiful Gulf will not be pristine again, in our lifetime.

 

[Waterbaddrinkwine]

Last week I was on the beach and there was a line of oil as far as the eye can see and no BP workers. I actually saved a large bag of the oil for proof and took pictures... It's a long way from being over.

 

[Jdarg]

I wonder if the cooling water temps have anything to do with the oil becoming "undispersed" and behaving differently than it did when the water was warm?

 

[ASH]

Could be the cold weather or it could be that we've had some really rough surf for several days lately that likely shook oil out of the sand out at the sand bars and now it's washing in again.

Dune Allen has had large crews on the beach every day for months now.
I was fishing the surf this past weekend and there are always tar balls coming in. Not large like they used to be and not in big batches. Just a steady stream of nickel size tar balls.