No Warnings Of Contaminated Oceans

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(Free-Press-Release.com) July 14, 2010 -- When Ryan Heffernan, volunteer with the Emerald Coastkeeper, asked BP’s HazMattrained workers to go in to the ocean to pick up a bag of oily debris, she was politely told, "We can't go in the ocean. It's contaminated." Heffernan waded into the ocean of Santa Rosa Sound and retrieved it herself.

Ryan had been swimming in the ocean the previous day. The next day she was given treatment by a local doctor for skin rash on her legs.

There had been approximately 24 HazMat workers and 5 HazMat tents on the Pensacola Beach, Florida. They had yellow over-boots to minimize risk of contact with the water, which were duct-taped to their long pants' legs. They had all been given hazardous waste training.

Most people on the beach were barefoot, even though shoes become weighed down with oily sand. Lots of people happily plunged into the ‘contaminated’ sea, without anyone trying to warn them, or stop them. Hotels had put up signs saying that swimming was not advisable, plus setup oil cleaning stations on their premises.

As dispersed oil, cloaked in chemical dispersants, are in the water column, not all the oil washing ashore is able to be seen. From Louisiana to Florida, people are reporting skin rashes and blisters, after swimming in the ocean.

The symptoms of respiratory problems, skin irritation and central nervous system distress are in line with overexposure to crude oil. Complaints being reported from people across all four Gulf States, are burning eyes, headaches, stuffy sinuses, with persistent coughs, sore throats, ear bleeds and fatigue.

No alarm about a public health threat has been sounded by officials, because three federal agencies - DHHS, EPA and OSHA - cannot find any contamination of oil in the air or water. However, the scientific and medical community widely understand the toxic risk from crude oil.

BP fails to reveal the risk from spilled oil, ultrafine particles (PAHs) and chemical dispersants, which include industrial solvents and proprietary compounds, some dangerous to people. BP officials claim that by the time oil reaches the shore, it is "weathered" and missing extremely explosive compounds such as carcinogenic benzene.

Numerous health problems, due to oil exposure, had been reported by workers at the spill site.

An easy and inexpensive fix to the oil spill, the burn off fires , send volumes of toxic gases, made up of nitrogen oxides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, sulfur dioxide, volatile organic and carbon monoxide compounds of benzene, ethyl benzene, xylene and toluene.

No official air quality observation takes place, because most of the burn zones are right outside the Environmental Protection Agency's jurisdiction and 50 miles offshore. Just under 5 million gallons of oil have been burned at temperatures well above 2,000 degrees.

BP claims it is replacing the leaking cap with a better fitting one and a skimming super oil tanker has finally been sent to the spilled oil spill zone.

The safety case was developed in Britain after the catastrophic 1988 Piper Alpha oil rig explosion, in which 167 people lost their lives. Bp admits it did not use standard industry process to assess risk on any of its United States wells, including the high –pressure Deepwater Horizon well.

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