http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-20100703,0,1038308.story
When I was 44, we moved from our home on the Oregon Coast (before the state had gone socialist and lost its heart), to the Florida Keys. My son was 16 when he met a scuba instructor and within 5 seconds was begging for scuba lessons. He got a job at Koblick Marine Center as a tank jockey and was certified. Then his father, not to be left out, got certified. And since no one was going to leave me behind, I got mine, too.
I didn't like living in the Keys, which probably leaves some of you slapping your foreheads and wondering why. Well, it depressed me. There were no beaches; it's at the tail end of the world and everything runs downhill. You are very isolated on an island and I discovered a class division. A lot of the people were drifters. I prefer roots. I didn't think it was a wise place to raise a teenager, either. I'm sure there will be comments left for me because of that.
But the water and the marine life is another thing all together. I could snorkel forever. The water is gin clear most of the time, the coral sand as white as snow. Swimming in 92 degree water in August and being able to see for 100 feet of blue-tinged water is phenomenal. The reefs are stunning and vibrant with color and life. I remember jumping off the dive boat on my final openwater dive into a waiting school of barracuda and laughing as I watched my bubble trail on the way down. I have handled moray eels, swam in the company of eagle rays, watered a manatee, watched frigate birds sail on outspread wings forever.
There is a moment - just a moment - when at dawn, the horizon vanishes and the whole sky with rising clouds and the flat water turn to a silvery shimmer. It is an incredible sight.
From any height, the water of Florida Bay and the Gulf is the color of a peacock's tail.
My German Shepherd, Bear, took a nightly swim off coral rocks into the neck of a lagoon with the local kids. Bear always felt it was his responsibility to rescue everyone, and he would grab a limb, a bathing suit or a tee-shirt and not let go until his target was safely on the rocks.
Tarpon dawdled in the shallows. Bull and nurse sharks were literally, right outside the door.
But what I always remember about diving were not the schools of yellowtails, the parrotfish or silversides flashing color on the wrecks, swimming with dolphins, the Queen Angels, or working at Jules' Undersea Lodge in the office...it was a dive trip to Pennekamp Park. I was watching a fish cleaning station...mesmerized. A little fish was in attendance. Bigger fish would cruise up to this small spot and the little guy would come out and clean off the parasites, eat leftover food in the mouth and gills of the bigger fish. When the cleaning was done, the big fish left and the small one would go back into its crevice in the coral and wait for another. On that day, the big fish were lining up like discount day at a carwash.
All the time I was watching this, something was pecking at my calf. When I finally turned to see what it was, it was a Sergeant Major. I was too close to its egg mass at the base of the statue. It was so small - they're about palm-size, and I was so big, yet it was doing its fearsome best to chase me away from its precious progeny.
WHEN THE OIL REACHES THE FRAGILE FLORIDA KEYS, EVERY LIVING THING IN ITS WAKE AND EVERYTHING IT TOUCHES WILL DIE. MANY SPECIES LIKE THE MANATEE, WILL BECOME EXTINCT. IT WILL KILL MANY OF THE SPECIES THAT LIVE IN THE EVERGLADES THAT MAKE A LIVING IN ESTUARIES AND ON THE COASTLINE. IT WILL SMOTHER THE MANGROVE ISLANDS WHICH SERVE AS MARINE NURSERIES.
Our precious reef system is about to be SUFFOCATED in oil, and Mr. Obama doesn't care. This is the most horrendous ecological catastrophe that has befallen our country, and this man, this unfeeling, uncaring, inept puppet/fraud is doing nothing. I believe fully that this disaster sits equally in his lap AND in BP's, and he has ignored offers for help, refuses to let the Navy in, refuses to put on old jeans, roll up his pristine sleeves and put on protective wear and go clean birds or turtles, or work on the removal of oil from the marshes. HE DISGUSTS ME. HIS LACK OF CONCERN IS APPALLING. But he had time for a barbecue yesterday, while cultures, wildlife, fisheries, families, and the beautiful Gulf of Mexico are literally being killed. Species (like manatees), will go extinct, while Obama plays footsy with BP who gave him campaign money, and the likes of George Soros, the nazi, who is counting his money from the profits of Corexit9500 which is spilling toxins into the Gulf in addition to sinking the oil, not helping at all.
Is this not an impeachable offense?
IS THIS NOT OBAMA'S CHERNOBYL?
HIS RESPONSIBILITY AS PRESIDENT IS TO KEEP US SAFE? IS HE DOING IT? NO!
THE GULF OF MEXICO, THE COASTS OF THE GULF STATES, THE EASTERN SEABOARD, THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, THE NORTH SEA ARE GOING TO BE INUNDATED WITH BP OIL, AND HE REFUSES HELP. HE REFUSES THE MEDIA TO BE ALLOWED ACCESS UNDER $40k FINE. IT IS NOW CALLED A VOLCANO.
IT SPEWS DAY AND NIGHT, AND IT WILL SPEW FOR YEARS. AND THE CURRENTS, WHEREVER YOU ARE, WILL EVENTUALLY, REACH YOU!
OBAMA SEEMS TO BE FINE WITH THE GULF OF MEXICO BECOMING A DEAD ZONE.
THE SUFFERING OF THE PEOPLE ON THE COAST AND THE WILDLIFE AND THE MARINE ANIMALS ARE ON HIS HEAD; lost jobs, suicides, despair, death of wildlife and marine life, broken families, all are on his head!
WHERE IS YOUR OUTRAGE?
ARE MEMORIES OF THE GULF STATES, THE CLEAN WATER, THE WATERS AND SKY FULL OF LIFE, ENOUGH TO CARRY WITH YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIVES?
WHAT WILL YOU TELL YOUR CHILDREN ABOUT THE DEAD ZONE OF THE GULF OF MEXICO, AND HOW WILL YOU EXPLAIN YOU DID NOTHING?
DO SOMETHING TO SAVE THE GULF OF MEXICO.
But at the same time, safe, sane, shallow depth drilling can and should continue, with every safety device in place, working, and ready 24/7. We are a far, far way from reliable alternative energy. To say we are not is a lie.
CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES AT ALL LEVELS. DEMAND OBAMA DO SOMETHING TO SAVE THE GULF OF MEXICO.
TELL THEM YOU WANT HIM IMPEACHED. WHEN THEY TELL YOU THERE ISN'T SUPPORT FOR THAT, REMIND THAT AIDE OR INTERN, THAT GOVERNMENT GETS ITS POWER FROM THE PEOPLE, AND WE CAN TAKE THEIR POWER AWAY, AND THAT GOES FOR YOUR REPRESENTATIVE, YOUR SENATORS AND THE PRESIDENT.
THE MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE, IF HE DOESN'T ACT DECISIVELY AND RESPONSIBLY TO END THIS ECOLOGICAL DISASTER (WITHOUT CAP AND TRADE), SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE AND PUT IN PRISON.
HE TOOK THE JOB. HE SWORE AN OATH.
HE HAS NOT LIVED UP TO ANY PROMISES, HAS BURDENED US WITH DEBT, FORCED US INTO SITUATIONS WE DID NOT WANT, AND NOW THIS.
HE DOES NOT DESERVE TO SIT IN THE WHITE HOUSE FIVE MINUTES LONGER.
1-877-851-6437 TOLL FREE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL SWITCHBOARD.
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