that oil spill

[mooseknuckles]

Hey guys,
remember that oil spill about a month ago off of the Cape? The one that shut down all the nearby shellfish beds?
Well if ya do, I was wondering if that spill would carry on towards the north shore, I'm not too sure how the tides work.
I've been planning a bunch of dives this summer, (all of which will require rippin them bugs out the water and into MA BELLY!) but have these critters been "greased" or is all well. I'm just curious because I havn't heard a thing lately about any of this.


:band: ROCK ON!:band:

 

[large_diver]

That spill was in Buzzard's Bay -- it is not likely that it will impact the north shore.

 

[Charlie99]

It didn't even really hit Buzzards Bay that hard.

I live Sconticut Neck area of Fairhaven, one of the harder hit areas. Both here and on nearby West Island it just showed up as a "bathtub ring" on rocks near high tide. About a 1' wide thin gummy layer of tar.

Bouchard is going to pay through the nose for the cleanup. There was a crew of 4-6 guys that spent 3 long days with a heated pressure washer just to clean up my 100' oceanfront.

There are still a few stray mini-tarball ---- little specks the size of a pencil point. We ocassionally get one of these on our shoes while on the beach, and then it ends up making a tar stain inside my dinghy or the sailboat. Outside of that, all traces are gone.

There was a lot of testing of shellbeds and they were closed until tests were complete. I haven't heard anything on that.