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The Mystery of Oregon's 'Dead Zone'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the behind-the-scary-door dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "The area off Cape Perpetua on the central Oregon coast is now a gigantic crab and fish graveyard. It was first discovered in 2002, but according to the Christian Science Monitor, researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) have taken a close-up look into this coastal dead zone. And things are getting worse. A few weeks ago, the researchers measured the level of dissolved oxygen in this part of the ocean. They found that levels were 10 to 30 times lower than normal, down to 0.5 milliliters per liter, a characteristic of hypoxia. And because they have no explanations about this phenomenon, they're even envisioning a total absence of oxygen, or anoxia. Read more for additional details and pictures about this mystery."

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  1. Re:No explanation? by drawfour · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Right, because scientists in the field of study who are stumped couldn't possibly have already looked into that and discounted it? You Google'd it, that suddenly means you have all the knowledge to tell the experts what is going on?

    Right...

  2. Re:No explanation? by pipingguy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I recently moved a few thousand kilometers westward and a Chinook Arch looks quite ominous and threatening to those that haven't seen it before. It's just nature, though. I always find it amusing when eco-types freak out and fret over what are natural earth processes.

    The sky is not falling, despite what the linked image above might indicate.

  3. CSM or ZDNET - Which is it? by mdm42 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the article references the Christian Science Monitor, why the hell is the link to some linkjack blog at ZDNET?

    Surely the original article (at CSM) should be the one linked, and not to some warmed-over plagiarised rehash at ZDNet? Do the /. editorship actually bother to check any of this?

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  4. Re:Hypoxia is a characteristic of hypoxia? by SethJohnson · · Score: 5, Insightful



    Welcome to a successful Roland Piquepaille slashdot bait. He's a master of re-explaining the basic. In this case, he's speaking down to the reader from his intellectual pulpit.

    Seth

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  5. Re:Hypoxia is a characteristic of hypoxia? by legoburner · · Score: 4, Insightful
    a complete cessation of brain function is a characteristic of death.


    Try reading this site at -1 and you'll soon change this theory!
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  6. Re:USA IS IGNORANT! by mark99 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's always easy to blame the US for anything bad. It obviates the necessity of thinking things through.

    Not that the USA is blame free, far from it. But I am amazed at what they get blamed for these days.