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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is reporting two patches of broken brown product 20 feet by 50 feet each in size about 10 miles south of Little St. George Island.
An FWC vessel has responded for observation and the source of the material is still being investigated.A rainbow sheen for 100 feet to the west of the product is associated with
the spotting, which was noted at 10:41 a.m. today by FWC aircraft recon. The notice on GATOR, a mapping tool used by the Florida State Emergency Response Team, says clean up is needed.

CRAP!

The good news: Two patches of 20X50 aren't that big and if they are skimmable should be fairly easy to handle.

The bad news: That may be an indication of the leading edge of something more on the surface and may indicate smaller tarballs (remember that's a vague term: nickel size to baseball size) underneath the surface. Looking at the weather forecast for the next few days it doesn't bode well for our western part of our neck of the woods.

Saddle up boys.
Lets' get at it.

Jumptrout51 wrote:Saddle up boys.
Lets' get at it.

I've got my generator, wet-dry shop vac, and DOT-approved 55-gallon closed-top drum ready to go.

Jumptrout51 wrote:
Saddle up boys.
Lets' get at it.

With what?

Read again. Now says units spent hours in the area and found nothing. This kind of mistake reporting is not a good thing.

MudDucker wrote:Read again. Now says units spent hours in the area and found nothing. This kind of mistake reporting is not a good thing.

There is about to be A LOT of that!

You know it's bad when FWC starts making false reports to itself

Wevans: This is a great site to track both news and non-news. I appreciate the link. Not sure how I feel about teh reports. While I don't like to cry wolf, I like a proactive plan of attack

I believe they found sheen offshore a few days ago from Sikes Cut, unrelated to the oil spill, that was believed to be from a boat.

Now at Little St George Island.

Lat/Long (DD MM.mm): 29 35.8260 , -85 5.8260
( A little over a mile off the island)


Vessel recon from Coastal and Aquatic; reports about one meter wide by .25 mile long peanut buttery, tacky oil based product.....A SAMPLE WAS TAKEN AND IS SOON TO BE PROCESSED AT THE DEP LAB....PHOTO TO BE ADDED LATER

Latest CSTARS(http://www.cstars.miami.edu/) satellite radar image: