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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Different story at Orange Beach
	Date:	7/28/2010 9:35:22 AM

I just got off the phone with a client and she is headed to Orange Beach and her sister was there last week and it was fabulous. Never saw any oil in the water or on the beach and people were swimming, despite the double red flags. Apparently at Gulf Shores they are arresting people for swimming in the ocean so its no surprise the place is deserted. Amazing how the impact is geographically different. When we were out sampling we saw strings of oil separated by large unimpacted areas. Could be that is why it impacts different areas differently.

Just an FYI, by the time the oil reaches the surface at the spill site it is significantly weathered and most of the chemical toxicity is gone. After a few days in the warm gulf water and exposed to the sun it is significantly further weathered and the chemical toxicity is mostly if not completely gone. What remains is this highly viscous medium and long-chain hydrocarbons (think cooking oil) that is more resistant to weathering and represents physical toxicity to biota (which means it gets in their gills or their feathers and they die from that).

No doubt there will be short term impacts and people are suffering. But as I said to the others, take heart as the long-term impact will be negligible. I assume everyone wants that to be the case and are not hoping for long-term damage just so they can hold onto their anger at BP, right?