One Ton Tar Ball in Perdido Pass! Florida

[BananaTom]

PERDIDO PASS - This is one of *two one-ton tarballs found south of Perdido Pass.

The crew of the lift boat -- "Sailfish" -- which is a Vessel of Opportunity -- discovered them.

A petty officer with the US Coast Guard took a picture on Saturday.



One ton tar ball.jpg

[Reel Bender]

iNSTEAD OF DISPERSANTS THNEY NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE MIT ALL TURN INTO GIANT TAR BALLS oops

[PReaux]

My friend was there, he has intestinal problems, it might have been him! He has been known to pull large pieces of furniture from his arse! Look for a refrigerator!

[gonzalesdave]

what is a vessel of opportunity?

[CatDaddy]

This is her before she went swimming!!

[longsidelandry]

Originally Posted by CatDaddy

This is her before she went swimming!!

[wtretrievers]

Originally Posted by CatDaddy

This is her before she went swimming!!

She musta gut snake bit. Got tourniquets on boff legs! a lotta swellin too!

[Jordan]

Lol. Ya'll boy's are nucking futs !

[Hebert]

i wish it all would turn into tar balls...would be much easier to clean up...

[southern151]

Originally Posted by CatDaddy

This is her before she went swimming!!

How dare you put such an ugly picture up to represent the early age of that tarball!

The tarball in the first pic has value and could be put to work somewhere...

[fishmaster911]

Ma' dat uuuucky !

[jpeff31787]

Holy crap!

["W"]

your not putting 2000lbs in a personal basket........and that so called tar ball in no where near one ton........

[tumbleweed]

at least it was all in one piece for them to pick up. Makes it pretty easy to pick up, instead of 1,000 little bits.

[BananaTom]

Originally Posted by gonzalesdave

what is a vessel of opportunity?

Vessel of Oppurtuntity or VOO is the personal boats owned by fishermen, shrimpers ect. that BP hires to work the oil spill. Lay booms, check on booms, pull skimmers and so on.

[Ray]

A hastily invented skimming boom is collecting tarballs floating in the Gulf of Mexico and congealing them into 1-ton masses of oil.
Coast Guard Capt. Steven Poulin said Wednesday that more versions of the recently devised skimming system are being built for vessels skimming oil.
The equipment was designed by a BP contractor who leads a skimming taskforce in Poulin's sector, which serves Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.
A shrimp boat fitted with outriggers drags oil-collection bags made of perforated webbing behind it. As the ship moves forward, the bags fill with oil that combines into a semi-solid mass.
The resulting tar balls are thick enough that chains and tackle can sit on top of them without sinking.