Tolditlikeitis asked:
This was taken at Dauphin Island, AL. IT IS THE WORST I HAVE EVER SEEN OF A BEACH AND ITS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BIG OIL COMES TO TOWN! It you look real good in the distance you will see the MANY oil rigs out in the Gulf. Its sad, I grew up here and this USED to be a BEAUTIFUL PLACE! Now, its a oil wasteland! Trash, oil slick and the water smells like Crap! They have ruined our beaches! Yet we pay high price for gas! Who’s getting rich? Record profits this year reported by the oil companys! I hear Florida is next on the HIT LIST. Let the rigs in and this it what you will get!! Ps Can you see the ppl and thier kids playing in this crap? I did not even want to put my dog in there!
I lived on dauphin island this summer and that is not oil!!!!!!!!! The beaches are somewhat clean! I’ve been surfing a couple of times and haven’t gotten any tar
on my board! It could be clay that you are looking at. There are just tons of clay balls that wash up! The water has always been muddy and the sand isn’t that white but there is deffiently not that much oil there. The tar balls that have washed up are the size of you pinky nail or smaller! So please know what you are talking about before you gossip about it!
@Tolditlikeitis Glad you and Bocefus jr.found this to be such a knee-slapper. You must be laughing til you crap your pants with the current spill. Pop open another Pabst, and yuk it up summore.
Listen fucker the water was always brown and muddy so shut the hell up stupid ass Yankee
this is one of the most beautiful beaches in alabama
you must have filmed this after katrina
dont be an asshole you fuckin yankee
wow, you filmed an old bonfire. We have the whitest beaches on the planet: fact, chk it out if you don’t believe: 99 per cent quartz. You’re a disgrace, and drunk.
@Tolditlikeitis Sorry, but your wrong. Not oil. It is sediment and plant material that comes down the HUGE watershed that feeds the bay and naturally flows west when it hits the gulf (which is why the water gets clearer as you go east down the coast). Whether you see it just depends on weather, tides, current, rainfall, ect. ect. ect. I’m 28 and been going since I was born so, sorry, that’s the truth. Visible oil rigs are natural gas, NOT oil. Coming from an lefty by the way.
@DorothyDandrich Thats where black people go when they die.
I made this video last year, I was pissed that the beach looked so bad. There was what looked like sludge from the rigs on the beach, as for the comment from the user, about it always having back sediment, thats just not true.
Weird that out there now, there is a oil rig leaking oil. Sad, Dauphin Island’s looking bad. The stench in the air is almost overwhelming. But we need oil though to run our cars, so what do we do?
@mtgirl58 poop would get washed into the water then become a source of food for fish and bottom feeders
So now the state is broke, PAST BROKE, and the environment is degraded.
Oh and BTW Dauphin Island has the worst cops I ever saw. Crooked, corrupt bunch of good ole boy doughnut munchers! Steer clear if you’re a tourist – they will try to make you pay!
The black sediment on the beach has always been there long as I can remember, I think it is just plant matter that washes out of the bay. But that doesn’t change the fact that this area has declined so much. Exxon was found guilty of cheating the state out of billions in royalties and ordered to repay. Largest judgement in history against an oil company! They bought of Al Sup Crt justices and got it reduced to a few million.i
That is the Gulf side, Fort Gaines jetties. The debris is from Shrimp boats and Oil Rigs. You can catch Reds, Speckled trout, White trout, flounder, Jack Crevalle there, along with many other species. There are fish, crabs, hermit crabs, dolphin; an abundance of wildlife there. You can eat the fish too.
It should be cleaner though, once I came upon a disposable diaper washing back and forth in the surfline… People don’t care apparently.
Does his dog wear a diaper so he is not contributing to the problem?
You are on the bay side. It doesn’t have the current to wash away the trash that Katrina swept into the ocean nor does the island have the money to to dredge. FYI Katrina almost destroyed the island.
There is more wildlife around Dauphin Island than in Orange Beach, etc. I’ve seen dolphins every time.There are rigs off every beach in the Gulf. Most aren’t as close. Black sand is everywhere but like I said you are on the bay side where things don’t get washed out.
Yepppp:-(((((
You sound pretty dumb too. Those aren’t oil rigs. They’re natural gas rigs. And they’re clean. The black stuff is sediment from the bay. Has nothing to do with “oil rigs”. Lame video.
he so stupid there are 100+ rigs out there…he is one of those idiots!
You “tourists” are the ones who fuck this place up anyways. Speeding, littering..etc. Just stay home. Please.
I have been to Dauphin island
Am glad to hear the warning about cops hasseling tourists.
What is the Black stuff?
Well what is the …black stuff on the beach?
It sure looks like an oil spill
I wish the oil rigs would clean up their mess
yah florida should have snake county or a swamp or hurricane county no even better moskito county hahahaha no i got it even beter retirement county.
what dou think know
Good example of what happens when the oil rigs move in to town! People this is your beach next! Viva Oil Companys!!
I’ve grown up on Dauphin Island and lived there for 26 years. I’m also a Captain and run a utility boat to oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.. First of all, that is not oil on the beach. Its a type of soil or clay, I don’t know the name of it, but its been there for as long as I can’t remeber. There has been some oil/tar balls wash up, but not much. Second, there are over 5,000 oil or natural gas platforms in the Gulf, mostly off the coast of Louisianna. The ones in the video are mostly natural gas.. The oil spill was tragic and stupid because it could have easily been prevented. But it really hasn’t been as bad as I thought. Or we just don’t know the extent of the damages yet.