Tar Balls on Cocoa Beach East Coast Florida – Ongoing Mystery
By coincidence this training session (linked below) was offered in Brevard County twice during the week of June 30, 2010 — with emphasis on tar balls, timed as if to foreshadow their arrival. Click the video to see a good description of anticipated tar balls due to arrive in the area of Cocoa Beach: ~~~ www.wesh.com June 30th Brevard County and Cocoa Beach, FL Local emergency operations managers want people to be ready if oil comes to Florida’s shores. Authorities will need a lot of help to clean up after the tar balls, and several volunteers were trained at the Emergency Operations Center in Rockledge Wednesday night. A second training session was held Wednesday night at the Cocoa Beach Library. www.examiner.com July 7th According to several reports, people in Cocoa Beach, Florida are now finding tar balls on their white sand beaches. Brevard County Emergency Management began receiving calls from beach-goers around 1:30 pm Tuesday who spotted them in the water in the area near Minuteman Causeway from 3rd Street South down to 6th Street South,” according to Current.com. “One beach regular said they collected five pounds (of tar balls) in a plastic shopping bag in a short amount of time. It’s like all over the place,” said Paul Davis, a Cocoa Beach resident.” The Orlando Sentinel reports, “There have been reports of tar balls washing ashore this morning. They are in the same general area as the ones found Tuesday, July 6th.” The origination of the tar balls have not been …
July 10th, 2010 at 4:19 am
yeah watch how every criminal polluter dumps all their crap in the sea & blames BP
Bit daft they’re saying “don’t touch it coz its toxic” & then the newsman shows you a bit in the palm of his hand.
“we don’t have anything to worry about” say the lady on the beach… no not YET!
July 10th, 2010 at 10:50 am
Bad karma being created by lies. You liars will pay!
Thanks for posting this
July 10th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
did these balls show up on coco beach b4 the oil spill?
July 11th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
oh no this isn’t BP deepwater oil…oh no. pick it up with your hands, rub it on your face…it’s good for you, honest! this is just refined fuel from a shrimp boat that Un-refined itself and became a tar ball again~ Honest.
July 11th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
“I suppose I should ask, why would a chemist wanna spoil the party? … Then again, the tar balls may be from a natural “mud volcano” oil seep, or even garbage dumped into waters in the night ”
Good point, also why do the reporters all say analyze the tar balls to see if it came from the spill??? Why not analyze to see if it even has oil in it???? Oh, corexit is the main ingredient….
July 12th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
@azis1100 yep and you can make a mold of sponge bob with it and let your kids play with it.
July 12th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
If it was oil from a shrimp boat the chances of that small amount washing to shore isnt possible. The tar balls are from the chemical bp uses to break up the oil.