Mysterious black blob floating near Florida.......

Great Dane · 27 Mar 2002

Don't go in the water!!! I have seen Creep Shoh, and I know what that thing can do to you!!!

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.

At its peak in February, the black water covered an estimated 700 square miles north of the Florida Keys and west of the tip of the mainland.

The algae does not seem to be killing fish, as some algal blooms -- like red tide -- are infamous for doing. But anglers say the fish they normally find in the area have disappeared. They've also reported the water as looking "snotty," "like sewage" and "nasty."

Florida officials refer to it as a "dark brown-black-green water mass."

Tuesday, Mote Marine Laboratory found there is oxygen in the water column -- it's not a "dead zone," as some had suspected.

Researchers do not know what triggered the bloom.

A theory that it had something to do with an inrush of fresh water and runoff from a river near the Everglades was discounted by water testing. Another theory is that it might somehow be linked to a recent red tide event near Naples, just to the north.

The area of black water was first noted in satellite images in mid-December.
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Arglaar · 27 Mar 2002

EEwwww!!!

Meteor $h!+!!!!

Oed · 27 Mar 2002

Sounds like the rising of Cthulhu to me (grin)

Desperado · 27 Mar 2002

Hey what happens when you throw a blue rock into the red sea?

Great Dane · 27 Mar 2002

Same thing as when you throw white hat in the red sea.

Desperado · 27 Mar 2002

Well that wasn't the response I was expecting.

Great Dane · 27 Mar 2002

I was going to just say "It get's wet" but I did't want to give the joke away.

Desperado · 27 Mar 2002

Well at least you didn't say, "...the same thing as everything else." i.e. Storm in X-Men babbling the worst line in the movie to Toad.

Then again no one else posted, so that's ok. Heh. I remember I heard that and thought, I dunno it sinks? it turns purple or looks purple? it floats? I don't get it.....oh yea, it gets wet, duh.

Dragon · 27 Mar 2002

I live in FL, Im still alive - I think?

Rayzer · 28 Mar 2002

What's Creep Shoh? Nother name for the nasty black stuff? I don't even like sea weed, if feels all nasty and stuff, I hate standing on the bottom of lakes cause its got algae and nasty stuff growing on the rocks. I can't even imagine getting caught in that stuff, how gross. That would be a good stunt for fear factor, lower somebody out of a helicopter into the middle of that shit and make them tread water for 15min. Heh, you imagination starts to mess with you. I suppose that could be bad if it turned out to be some kind of flesh eating algae...

Great Dane · 28 Mar 2002

Creep Shoh = Creep Show. It's a moive but my bad typing skillz didn't get the point across.

Ingwë · 28 Mar 2002

algal bloom are caused by lots of stuff decomposing and they feed off of the stuff that comes from it and in the process use the air in the water it is more of a danger to fishes and such then to humans.

Rayzer · 28 Mar 2002

yeah but i'm sure it feels nasty.

mtx · 28 Mar 2002

I used to have nightmares about that stuff as a kid. The black gue that kills.

Great Dane · 28 Mar 2002

MTX knows what I'm talking about.

mtx · 30 Mar 2002

Hell yeah I do. After seeing that girl get sucked into it and it.. *shakes* it was bad.

So if you ever see it make sure you gete a good distance from the water before you make fun of it. The last guy didn't and it wasn't pretty.

Great Dane · 31 Mar 2002

Yep. Never laugh at the black goo that just ate all your friends.

mtx · 1 Apr 2002

Never commit a hit and run on a homeless person.

Great Dane · 1 Apr 2002

Well at least not if your a woman and the homeless person is going to Dover.

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