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A year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the Florida beaches are relatively clean, the surf seems clear and the tourists are returning. But there are signs that the disaster is continuing to affect marine life in the gulf far from where humans can observe it.
Sick fish suggest oil spill still affecting Gulf - St. Petersburg Times
Seeded on Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:55 AM EDT
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Some red snapper caught in the area of the oil spill have severe fin rot, particularly on their anal fins. A healthy fish would be able to fight off such infections, scientists say. They suspect that the immune systems have collapsed as a result of a toxin.
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#1 - Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:57 AM EDTThe fish had dark lesions on their skin, some the size of a 50-cent piece. On some of them, the lesions had eaten a hole straight through to the muscle tissue. Many had fins that were rotting away and discolored or even striped skin. Inside, they had enlarged livers, gallbladders, and bile ducts.
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#2 - Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:57 AM EDTCowan said he hasn't seen anything like these fish in 25 years of studying the gulf, which persuades him that "it would be a pretty big coincidence if it wasn't associated with the oil spill."
If he were a detective, he'd be ready to make an arrest.
"It's a circumstantial case," he said, "but at the same time I think we can get a conviction."
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#3 - Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:58 AM EDT
Why are all these happening 1 year after the disaster, and after the wells were supposedly killed?
The truth: oil is leaking not only at the Macondo prospect, but other reservoirs as well. Unlike the height of the disaster, oil is now leaking at a slower pace, seeping to the sea floor over a much wider shallow area, preferentially overlying the faulted and eroded pathways. Like a frog being slowly boiled, the marine life were able to survive the gradual build up of toxicity instead of being killed instantly when the oil was at higher concentration. The marine lives are dying slowly in the worst possible way.
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#4 - Sat Apr 16, 2011 3:17 AM EDTAnd people are arguing for the government to ramp up more offshore drilling, as well as sink more drills in Alaska. I've got a better idea. Want gas prices to drop? Meat eaters would only have to cut back their meat intake by half, and we would all see lower gas prices at the pump. Quit whining about the high gas prices and just do it!
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#5 - Sat Apr 16, 2011 3:57 AM EDTWe know they are hiding the other wells. Eventually they will uncover themselves, that and the other 27,000 leaking wells that CBS did the story on. 4600 of them that REALLY need attention, but hey.... It is just oil right? Who cares.
With all the Quakes in the San Juan area that seem to be increasing in number and magnitude and that 4.7 off the coast of Florida a while back, All signs that the area in general is unstable. When you pour sea-water into a oil-well it makes oil rise, Oil and water don't mix. The Well's in the Gulf leaked for 80+ days and you can imagine the amount of water being forced down wells at that depth and pressure. Top-Kill or Bottom-Kill or course would not work.
The Evidence is the photos of the bottom feeding life... DEAD. The Marine life Dying. BP HIDING!!!
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