Oil is 6 Inches Below The Sand In Pensacola

[kpete]

When oil washed up here during high tide... BP contractors went to work... cleaning the sand on the surface.

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Take a look at this video of oil beneath the surface, a coastal Geologist with the University of South Florida showed us a six inch trench they dug to prove there is oil buried under the sand, that is not getting picked up.

They'll clean the back beach but underneath the back beach they'll get this layer of oil that's been buried. What harm does this layer do?

lets just put it this way, they clean the beach right?
Now the beach is clean we get a storm and it stirs up all the oil here and re-mixes it and then you come back the next day and then you got tar all over your beach. and everyone says its closed down, its shut down, where's all this tar coming from?

Its buried.

more plus VIDEO:
http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_9205.shtml

[liberal N proud]

1. Makes for pretty pictures and looks good on the news

But when little Johnny starts to dig in the sand to build his sand castle, he comes up all covered in tar.

:wtf:

[jdlh8894]

4. Let's see-

6 in. of sand accumulated in 2 months? In the Gulf? Oh,please! The end of The Planet of the Apes would be a drop in the bucket. I call BS!

[trotsky]

5. Uh, the oil soaks in. n/t

[jdlh8894]

6. How, pray tell? n/t

[trotsky]

10. ...

http://www.newsherald.com/news/oil-84922-beach-sand.html

John Temperilli, Escambia County's contracted response operations specialist, said three things are taking the oil on Pensacola Beach out of sight: It's getting cleaned up, pulled back out by the surf or covered up by more sand on the incoming tide.

"There is some oil, particularly the more liquid oil, that will percolate into the sand," Temperilli said.

[Zoeisright]

17. Sand is porous.

Don't you know that?

[intheflow]

20. Obviously they never took any kind of earth science in grade school.

Because any 5th grader could deduce that sand is porous from their 5th grade science books. It must have been hard for that poster to leave school at such a young age.

[BeFree]

7. One good storm

20 mph onshore winds for a day, can pile on, or take away 6 inches of sand.

[jdlh8894]

9. Seems kind of strange

that no oil was found @ 1,2,3,4,or 5 in.. Don't you think?

[BeFree]

12. No

At the onset of a storm, the oil would be pushed ashore, followed by 6 inches of sand.

One day a storm will come and take away those 6 inches.

But this has me thinking.... as a high tide comes in the spaces between the sand particles is filled with water. As the tide recedes, the water drains out and the sand would, it seems, compact.

[jdlh8894]

14. As you said,

"At the onset of a storm"
There has been NO storm. Thanks for thinking. But you might want to learn a little more about a time frame on what the tides do. And how sand is dispersed.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

18. Tides, eh?

Tides... tides...

Hmm.

[BeFree]

22. Usually 4 tides a day

Y'know why nothing grows on the beaches? Because nothing can ever take root, or if it does the sand either washes it away or buries it.

The beaches are constantly changing, being added to one day and washed away the next.

Not quite understanding what you are trying to get at here.

[flyarm]

23. Time of the year also determines the beach..I live directly n the Gulf..

In the winter..my beach has almost twice as much sand as it does in the summer..this same pattern has existed for over 10 years now..the beach next to mine has less sand in the winter and more sand in the summer.Our beaches flip flop depending on the pattern of the ocean..and the time of year! We even get short cliffs ..where the sand washes away..in the summer.

If anything is burried under the sand ..it will easily end up on the next beach come summer..as that is the pattern of the water..and the beach.

[BeFree]

24. Yeah

Don't you feel sorry for people who haven't been able to spend much time on beaches?

They don't know what they are missing. As evidenced by some in this thread.

Take care there, Flyarm, and know that I hope your beach isn't too badly harmed.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. facepalm

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

19. That just means his castle struck oil !!!!

:silly:



but still sad the beaches are messed up a for long, long time.

[ixion]

2. It's going to be in everything...

it will alter the ecosystem for years to come.

[Karenina]

16. Just like the plastic particles are on remote islands off Hawaii...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8639769.stm?ls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxNqzAHGXvs


I swear, We Homo Sapiens, for all our flash and panache are collectively too STOOPID to survive in any great numbers. Hopefully, that will be to Mother Earth's benefit. You all know the joke about the two planets...

You GOOOO GAIA! NUKE IT and start over!!! :hide:

[Jennicut]

3. Well, 20 years later, they are still finding oil on the beach of Prince William Sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbjC9SMKClE&NR=1

[Oceansaway]

8. K&R...n/t

[Bragi]

11. Yaay! No way that can pose any problem. /nt

[formercia]

13. Just think of the good side

In 20 years, vehicles will be able to drive down the beach on a naturally paved surface. :sarcasm:

[Bragi]

21. So was there a spill or something?

Just wondering. Is this the same spill as in April?

If so, that's boring. We need new news.

[bdamomma]

25. it will take many years over 20 or more to ever get it back to

the way it used to be. sad. BP are criminals.