Gulf Oil Sickens Florida Swimmers
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Local officials rejected EPA advice to close beaches and are instead relying on lifeguards to spot oil and on bathers to use common sense and not swim where they see oil, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
Authorities complain that tests to check whether water is safe take 3 days to complete, while the location of oil changes hour to hour. “I went swimming on Saturday in the Gulf, and it was fine,” Buck Lee, the official who reopened the beaches, told the Pensacola News Journal. “A day or two later, I might not want to go in there.” Some skeptical Pensacola residents say Lee reminds them of the mayor in Jaws who didn’t want to ruin business by shutting down beaches to protect swimmers from sharks on a long holiday weekend.
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You may be able to see the surface oil but they forgot about the treated oil that you can’t see.
That’s politics for you!
Bring on some anarchy!!!!!
Friggin politicians. It’s inexcusable. Totally wrong and totally what is becoming a GOS (gulf oil spill) – SOP.
I agree Gwen!