Reply #28: I visited the Mississippi Gulf Coast some 50 years ago.

[suston96]

I was attending Keesler AFB Electronics school. Took my two little girls to the beach somewhere between Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi.

As we approached the surf, very mild surf, I noticed black balls in the water/bottom, sized somewhere between golf balls and marbles.

They were tar balls. Lots of of them. We didn't go in.

There were no reports of spills or disasters out there that I can remember. But the tar balls were there. That I can remember.