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To: Brumar89 who wrote (108864)4/12/2005 10:03:47 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 793913
 
Sammarco, a marine biologist at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, has discovered that the rigs have spawned lush marine habitats that are home to a profusion of rare corals and 10,000 to 30,000 fish each.

He's right - the Gulf is nothing nothing but water and mud for hundreds of miles, so any little thing that sticks up collects wildlife. Birds sit on them, nest on them, crap on them, fish hide from smaller fish behind and between the pilings, shellfish grow on them.

I grew up in South Louisiana, and was a full grown woman before I saw a rock bigger than gravel, on a trip to New York.

To me, oil rigs are a beautiful part of the ecosystem.
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