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Natural Oil 'Spills': Surprising Amount Seeps Into Sea - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News - FOXNews.com
I saw this story this morning on the oil seeps at Coal Oil Point. It does a pretty good job of explaining the curse of tar for those of us that spent any time diving between University Point and Ellwood Pier (or Elwood, depending on whose map you look at) an area we called the junk yard for good reason, all the oil field debris left behind, now the nearly exclusive playground of the rich who can afford to overnight at the Bacara. I have lots of fond memories diving the area using the beach access at the Marine lab, the 6800 block of Del Playa and COP (until they banned parking out there) and the thrill of discovering various lobster holes in what had to be one of the most dense kelp beds off the Southern California mainland. If you didn't save enough air to come back underwater the resulting crawl through the kelp and oil was almost enough to convince you to dive exclusively from boats.
I saw this story this morning on the oil seeps at Coal Oil Point. It does a pretty good job of explaining the curse of tar for those of us that spent any time diving between University Point and Ellwood Pier (or Elwood, depending on whose map you look at) an area we called the junk yard for good reason, all the oil field debris left behind, now the nearly exclusive playground of the rich who can afford to overnight at the Bacara. I have lots of fond memories diving the area using the beach access at the Marine lab, the 6800 block of Del Playa and COP (until they banned parking out there) and the thrill of discovering various lobster holes in what had to be one of the most dense kelp beds off the Southern California mainland. If you didn't save enough air to come back underwater the resulting crawl through the kelp and oil was almost enough to convince you to dive exclusively from boats.
