Black Water

Romancer writes "The Naples Daily News has an article about an environmental anomaly discovered by local fisherman: "They've dubbed it black water, and they're demanding that local, state and national government agencies find out what's causing it." With the Ice shelf falling and now this, solutions are helping but might be a bit late."

Comments

What fools these mortals be.

[Dancing Tree]

Great. So we hear that fishermen are reporting an insurgence of flesh eating bacteria and none of the "smart" doctors who have treated it have had the intelligence or forsight to actually culture a sample of the organism. They just take a guess at what they think it might be and administer a stiff antibacterial. What f***ing morons.

Then we hear that there is a dead zone of some 400 square miles where the water is sort of black all the way to the bottom and nothing is living in it. The few fish that wander into the "black water" go crazy to get out it. And no scientists have been dispatched to take water samples and find out what the hell is going on. Are they also stupid or are they under orders to not find out what is the cause? Or perhaps working on a "five dollar a day" budget has crippled them and their ability to do anything.

Oh no, nothing wrong here. Just some old wives tales and pirate yarns. It must be that those fisherman are just drinking too much slcohol. Of course, everyone knows that if you get drunk alot and then go hang out on boats for long periods of time, you automically contract a case of flesh eating bacteria. Ask any yachter or sailing man. Everything is just great in the president's brother's state.

I tell ya, if I had any say in it, there be a team of marine biologist and chemists descending on the Gulf of Mexico like a swarm of locusts. This is nuts. And to hear that there is also a huge dead zone at the mouth of the Mississippi River is really insane. A river mouth traditionally was a place that would be teaming with life due to nutrients and food being washed down to the sea but here in the good old McUSA it's just business as usual.

Yes, how much longer until one of those near misses registers a direct hit. I'm hoping the cosmic debris might raise IQs everywhere while killing off major quantities of stupid people and politicians.

When the ice melted, the seas rose. - Morgan Llewellyn, The Elementals