Tar balls wash up on Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral... Is The Coast Guard In Bed With BP

[rsmith6621]

By Larry Hannan

It will take several days to determine if tar balls that washed up on the beaches of Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral Tar came from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

These tar balls were collected by the Coast Guard and are being sent to a laboratory to determine their origin.

The results should be available by the weekend, said Coast Guard spokesman Christopher Evanson.


http://jacksonville.com/news/2010-07-07/story/tar-balls-wash-cocoa-beach-and-cape-canaveral

Last night on Hardball a Coast Guard official said that Oil had not even made it to The Keys or Miami...Question..Is the CG hiding the real toll from the public....are they in bed with BP

[Mika]

1. Fl keys fishermen were getting tar and oil on their lines deep down last week.

Our corporate government will let us know when the time is right. :eyes:

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[peekaloo]

2. Tar balls are not uncommon on Cocoa Beach.

having said that I would answer yes to your question.

[nashville_brook]

3. they used to be way more common, but we haven't had anywhere near the amount of tar

that we used to have in the late 70s-early 80s.

i was in Satellite Beach this weekend with high school buddies talking about just this. tar was a way of life when we were kids. then it went away -- but it's back now.

it weird, when we were kids we never thought too much about the tar -- as if the ocean produced it naturally.

[peekaloo]

4. Your last sentence ...exactly. Every August the tar would wash up

along with the jellyfish. Hell as a kid I thought the tar was a product of the j-fish. :dunce:

I lived in Texas for a couple of decades and tar is a given along the Galveston shore. :-(

[nashville_brook]

8. heheh -- i can totally see that. we were too young to know any better.

[jberryhill]

5. Some of them are natural

There seems to be this notion that tarballs are "speedier" than the rest of the zillion gallons of petroleum that has spewed from the BP well.

Tarballs are found just about everywhere and come from oil spills, illegal dumping of waste from ships, etc.

However, just as most petroleum used to be collected from surface deposits - e.g. the La Brea tar pits in LA, there is seepage from subsea deposits as well.

When oil exploration wasn't as sophisticated as it is now, that's why people knew there was petroleum to be had in the Gulf of Mexico in the first place.

[nashville_brook]

7. we've since figured out these were from the Ixtoc spill/gush

i'm sure there's lots of naturally occurring tar...but this was not natural. the entire high tide mark would be lined with tar balls, and it was down the whole east coast of florida. there were signs everywhere telling you how to remove the tar (nail polish remover, turpentine).

[ToddWorkman]

6. Well we have huge globs of tar under the sand VIDEO PROOF

I live on in the Florida Panhandle near Destin. I am also hearing rumors that the clean-up crews are only cleaning what can be seen but as this video shows there are much more than small tar balls on the surface. Under the sand are HUGE GLOBS of oil. Everyone needs to know this so that the clean-up policy changes. THIS VIDEO IS PROOF http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAQPr83SgKQ