2-Mile-Wide Sheen Off Goleta Prompts Coast Guard Response to ‘Possible Oil Spill’

[Purveyor]

Source: KTLA

An apparent oil slick off the coast of Goleta left a sheen 2 miles wide on the ocean alongside Santa Barbara County Wednesday, and the Coast Guard was responding to the “possible oil spill.”

Kayakers reported the sheen about 10 a.m. to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department, a fire captain told television station KEYT.

The amount of oil was unusual but the source was not known, fire Capt. Dave Zaniboni told KTLA. The Fire Department was waiting for the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Environmental Protection Agency to arrive, he said.

A U.S. Coast Guard petty officer told KTLA that a marine safety detachment team was investigating the oil. The slick was 1,000 yards off shore, Petty Officer Andrea Anderson said.

Read more: http://ktla.com/2015/07/29/oil-sheen-reported-off-santa-barbara-county-coast-in-goleta/

[riversedge]

1. the video shows the oil lapping up to shore already--awful

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. Can't we shut down the oil industry now?

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

3. "possible oil spill"??

This is going to keep happening. I hope the Keystone XL pipeline van be defeated!

[Lionel Mandrake]

4. How is it just "possible"?

I agree that if it looks like an oil spill, it's an oil spill!

[petronius]

5. There are natural seeps in the area, so it's possible,

although given the size I'd guess not probable, that it isn't a spill in the usual sense of the word...