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Baffling black blob floating near Florida - CNN
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| 3-27-02
Posted on 03/27/2002 9:20:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:00:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Researchers who have been studying a giant, mysterious area of "black water" in Florida Bay say it seems to be associated with a diatom, a type of algae.
The algae was found in the water, according to Scott Willis at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and the black water may be an algal bloom -- an explosion of microscopic marine life. Algal blooms are not rare in Florida waters, but blooms of this size are.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: blackbob; florida
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"Stay out 'da beaches."
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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| A satellite image of the mysterious "black water" observed off the coast of Florida. |
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Is Sharpton on vacation?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"mysterious area of "black water" "Al Sharpton?
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posted on
03/27/2002 9:23:08 AM PST
by
Wurlitzer
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Janet Reno's Dentist must have flushed out the spit-sink.
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posted on
03/27/2002 9:24:06 AM PST
by
ez2muz
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To: Wurlitzer
Al Sharpton? I think not! Al Sharpton is talented, but not that talented. A black blob of this size requires the combined efforts of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Donna Brazille.
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posted on
03/27/2002 9:25:19 AM PST
by
Frohickey
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Ten bucks says that blob gets to vote in the next Presidential election.
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posted on
03/27/2002 9:25:57 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sounds like my ex wife's family finally decided to bathe.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The stain on American jurisprudence left by the Florida Supreme Court?
To: Non-Sequitur
Is Sharpton on vacation?
LOL Big Al "Plankton" Sharpton.
Sharpton/Waters for President NOW!
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Word has it that Johnny Quest and his associates are on the scene checking into it.
Bandit fell overboard, but Haji and Johnny were able to pull him from the dark waters. Whew!
To: nunya_bidness
Irish, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I think you should check your hold...
...I think your Guinness is leaking.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Naah! Just some dude from Key West cleaned out his hot tub, and dumped the sewage in the ocean!
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posted on
03/27/2002 9:30:24 AM PST
by
aShepard
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I've heard that there is a lot of overfishing in Florida waters. I wonder if a species that ate algae is at a very low population level because of fishing? Maybe someone here knows about this better than me...
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posted on
03/27/2002 9:30:25 AM PST
by
Gladwin
To: Frohickey
I don't know, Oprah and Whoopi shouldn't be left out as possibilities.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Catfish are jumpin'
That paddle wheel pumpin'
Black water keep rollin' on past just the same
Oh black water, keep on rolling
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shining on me
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posted on
03/27/2002 9:32:11 AM PST
by
Samwise
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I don't know what it is but Al Gore just took credit for it. "I know algae. My family farmed algae. I watered the algae. I got my hands in the algae. I sponsored the bill that protected the algae. That black stain is my legacy!"
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Its the "Black Oil" from The X-Files.
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