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How bad the The BP Oil Spill

woodshed87woodshed87 Member Posts: 23,478 ✭✭✭
edited July 2015 in General Discussion
Impact Your Living In the Gulf
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wondered that to Roger. I wonder if the fish and sea life came back to normal figures and if the cleanup is complete. The environmental impact of that spill was huge. Paul, Pwillie, what say you????
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  • skicatskicat Member Posts: 14,431 ✭
    edited November -1
    There was no environmental impact. Corexit is good for you.
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Gulf suffered more than the BP folks are saying...Oysters are gone, shrimp breeding grounds have been traumatized. I think it will take at least 15-20 years before any semblance of the Gulf back to its past production...nature is the only healer...The Mississippi Sound was hit hardest...
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by skicat
    There was no environmental impact. Corexit is good for you.
    WaHAaahaaaaaaHaaaaaaaa
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  • Rack OpsRack Ops Member Posts: 18,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What is this environmentalist, greenie, pinko commie propaganda????

    Drill Baby Drill!
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    PWillie certainly has a much better view of the health of the coast than I, but other than the number of Ghost crabs on the beach, (which is coming back) The beaches are as clean as ever, in fact as a kid we got tar balls on our feet in the sand all the time from oil naturally seeping from the sea floor. I have not had that happen in 25 years. The red snapper season was awesome, (And quite tasty Thanks to my BIL E!) The trigger fish had to go back, he was not in season that day. (sorry that picture was too big)

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    There is SOOO much oil that leaks naturally from the seafloor that there are microbes munching on it constantly. I would hazard a guess that the surfactant that they pumped down there to disperse the oil did more harm than the oil. That and oh waiting 90 days to saw off the riser and put on a new valve.... anyone thats ever watched Hellfighters knows thats how you stop a blown out oil well.
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  • woodshed87woodshed87 Member Posts: 23,478 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I Just Found This Excerpt
    What Say You Paul Any Weird Eyeless Shrimp In Your nets??

    In April 2012, Louisiana State University's Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences was finding lesions and grotesque deformities in sea life-including millions of shrimp with no eyes and crabs without eyes or claws-possibly linked to oil and dispersants.
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by pwillie
    The Gulf suffered more than the BP folks are saying...Oysters are gone, shrimp breeding grounds have been traumatized. I think it will take at least 15-20 years before any semblance of the Gulf back to its past production...nature is the only healer...The Mississippi Sound was hit hardest...


    I don't think it is totally fair to compare today to the 70's and 80s or earlier. The last time I shrimped in the bay, 94 or 95 crabs and shrimp in the bay were already a fraction of what we caught as youngsters. We always got our oysters from Bon Secour or Apalachicola. Anyway the ones from MS were always "muddy" and back then most folks did not take the time to let them purge in clean water (My Aunt Martha lived over there, never liked eating oysters when we went to visit her. )

    I defiantly notice the lack of sand fleas, coquina clams, and all manner of crabs in the surf and on the beach. But again, I think that the surfactant used was harmful to their larva stages and nothing but time will heal that. I was reading there are still some spots in Louisiana having problems in the marsh with oil that was not cleaned up BUT, since the oil is very weathered it is difficult to say if it came from this spill or something a long time ago.
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Capt: The tar balls have been there for ever...some of the fleet I purchased shrimp from back in the 70's would load up on tar balls when fishing in the sound...The spill was a disaster to the oyster beds in La. as well as the Dauphine Island Reef,which had some of the best oysters you ever ate...that reef is done....Yes,we have a large Snapper population in the gulf,because of the artificial reefs installed over the years..The deep water fish was not as disturbed as the beaches and nursery areas of the bays of the gulf...I think the dispersants did more harm than good.. there is no quick fix...like I said,15-20 years before we see any real fix...Crabs were still having problems on the coast(black goo in their under *) as late as this spring..., some of the Gulf will not come back in my life time..BP is getting hosed by some entities ,and screwing business's that need help....all politics at its best...squeaking wheel syndrome....I have a claim, but doubt I'll see anything..I'm not connected like the big condo builders....One company got 27 mil. for a failed condo project in Orange Beach....died two years before the spill....
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