GULF OIL SPILL FALLOUT HORSESHOE CRABS DIE OFF CHATHAM MA CAPE COD HARDINGS BEACH

August 20th I met my friend down at the beach on the Cape near our family home in Chatham. Harding's Beach has always been a grt clean beach.

I sat for a few seconds and saw it right off. OK the seaweed but then I took a walk further & right off noticed the immense horseshoe crab die off.

Ive been there my whole life & Ive never seen this. Yes storms bring in many things but one species & not others & only the young of the species. Something was wrong to me and I had to show it.

I'll get right to it. Yes I suspect it has a relation to the Corexit 9500 & that the currents have carried that deadly poison to our shores. Our own Fishing industry & livelihood is not only in jeopardy but more important our lives our health is. This will last our life time and then on.

This is significant & critical as to the scope of this environmental disaster & how it will or is affecting anywhere the waters flow around the globe.

Our government has signed off to the industry and military to allow the use of this dispersant Corexit 9500 & it is deadly. Don't let them tell you other wise & those who dropped it I'm sure they know in their own hearts it was wrong.

It's like they dropped the A bomb and I'm serious about this people. We have been poisoned and it is not isolated to the Gulf and I do not believe it was an accident.

I am very upset over the oil spill and what they used to disperse or cover up the magnitude of the spill. We know we are being messed with and it's our lives and our children's lives. They do not care.

Our sea is dying and it is too late. This event in the Gulf has really done us in. Millions of gallons PLUS this Corexit 9500 has been injected into the well under the sea and also sprayed from up above by our own air force.

What did they think would be the result of such an action? Who signed off on such a thing? Who? You know who!

This is no longer a threat to our shores but to others as well outside our own country. This is a Global event & my little film here is nothing but a small fragment of what is to come.

"The Canary in the Mine" for sure.

BP was & is in control of our beaches telling our own people who wanted to report on the issue they had no jurisdiction and were not allowed to photograph or walk the most contaminated areas. I do not buy the "it was for their own safety" We have no idea of the scope of this yet but I can only estimate. Not imagine I'm thinking the reality is very scary at this point.

Forget the most contaminated areas. They are all contaminated.

This is so devastating it is Global. Wake up people were really in a Global Crisis were all in this together and I am not sure we can get out of this one.

I took samples of the Horseshoe crabs to an environmental testing lad today. The manager was called in & a marine biologist & we talked and we all agreed what can we do? nothing at this point but spread what we have found.

They didn't even have to test. They knew. That's what is scary. They knew. The manager was a diver & he knew it was possible & it was here. So he was in agreement but the reality is what can we do now that the damage is done.

I told him this was not about money this was about an environmental disaster we have no control over and all we can do now is report on it. No fund will recover our marine life. we don't have to pay law firms to tell us what we already know.

Our fishing industry is going to die but that's the least of our worries. We may go along with it.

There is nothing at this point to do but to yell all about it. He agreed yes the contamination had reached our shores. That's all I needed to hear. He was a diver and knew this was not good and not surprised.

I told him the dispersant was light enough to make its way up the coast in the currents to Massachusetts. He agreed.

He agreed but what can we do about it? What can we do!!!!!! It's happened how can we correct it? We can't.

Really this is horrible & I'm just showing you what I alone have seen and I'll write more later. This is my own evidence.

It has made it to our shores who is next. Oh and yes this is no surprise and how long has this been going on? It isnt the first time I can say that with a clear mind

No the oceans are not warm because of the climate change they are warming because they have been poisoned with a chemical so lethal it has created a thermal chemical reaction..

The thermo change is from the chemical reaction in the water due to contamination which effects the marine life more and the crustaceans are the first to go so here we are.

If we notice the birds die off then we know for sure. They have ingested the guts of the crabs so it's moving up the food chain.

Do not trust your country to have your back they have allowed this and I am more than upset.

http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/dwh.php?entry_id=815#findings

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[PROFILESophiaYates]

Someone had written a response to this video on another site: TiredOfLies said:

09/19/2010 at 1:01 pm The lungs on the crab you flipped over were brown. I have been to Cape May, and Jersey beaches all my life, and never seen dead babies. They usually get MUCH larger than those shown in your video. Great job getting this out! Anyone who denies that these died from something other than Corexit and oil, is either helping to cover up on purpose, or has their head so far up their rectum,

[PROFILESophiaYates]

that they’ll never see the light of truth! I have been saying from day one, that this is a global issue, and NOT a gulf issue, and people are in such a ridiculous state of denial, thanks to or corporate run , mainstream media, lying to the public about what’s really going on, and what the impacts will be. This is just the beginning! That well may be plugged, but that doesn’t matter.

[PROFILESophiaYates]

The damage is done, and it’s too late to reverse it. People will be “mysteriously” getting cancer, and other illnesses from this, for generations, and the media will just keep covering it up.

With all that has happened from the time this person posted this comment & news leaking out that hmm yeah things r not so good. But the other day on the news the oysters & crabs were ok to eat now in the Gulf. I don't know anymore. It's just a shame.

[dlindeman]

I think its great that you walked the beach and made a observation . Now keep a journal with the time place and event and you will have a base line for what you see in the future . Select a stretch of beach and walk that one ever week or every day if you like . Ive studied the same beachon Staten Island now for 10 years. Post your counts on a google map.

[PROFILESophiaYates]

@dlindeman that's basically what I have been doing all along but with video. I'm glad to hear others doing it as well. It's not just for this event either. I just love the area.

[gardengirl38]

I live in Hampton VA and saw the same thing this week on our beach here. My friend and I noted that we had never seen that many dead ones in one place before. Something is happening.

[PROFILESophiaYates]

@gardengirl38 Can I u did people tell u they were molting horseshoe crabs as well? I know what molting is & have seen the remnants throughout my life these were not all molting that's why I was concerned. They had not crawled out of all of their shells. Plus another phenomenon was my mother & I observed the Seagulls staying away from the water we thought was odd. Thousands of them laying in one place in town not to mention the amount of dead birds found on my road. Not seagulls either.

[JayDayX116]

good video, i'm sorry people are too lazy to keep the waters clean, its a real same to see such an old living fossil species die out.

[PROFILESophiaYates]

Yes molting time but then again not molting time. People listen I was concerned I was seriously right to be alarmed. Yes i know the evolution of a crab. We all learned that in school & then some. How u hear me & how i speak may be sound not so alarming & unsure. But I had to think about all this. There was more to all this. I may have have been alarmed. What would you want me to do? Forget it or question it? Were lucky so far. would u want me to watch or turn my eye? I watch no mater what.

[PROFILESophiaYates]

If I sound like a fool or look like one who the heck cares. I'm going to watch whats going on for myself because I can't count on anyone else too tell me the truth for whatever justification they may have. When it comes to human life & the health of so many & their future you don't run & hide!

[PROFILESophiaYates]

Not trying to pose a panic or say our waters are bad. Marine life is not leaving the area for a reason and some r coming in that don't want to be where they should be. We now have dolphins off Nantucket Yeah of course it may mean our waters r good I hope so and not effected by the Gulf. People r dying in the Gulf & others getting sicker. The news media only shows a healthy close up shot of a Manta Ray off Palm Beach FL . Tourism is hurting all over the S. But will they tell u the truth? NO!