Miss. beaches largely unspoiled by Gulf oil gusher

Miss. beaches largely unspoiled by Gulf oil gusher : "So far, Mississippi hasn't dealt with such messes, largely because of the underwater DeSoto Canyon in the Gulf, which is south of the Florida Panhandle, said Don Johnson, an oceanographer at the University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast Research Laboratory."

The famed oiled pelican of Pascagoula

I've been hearing lots about this guy... but finally (in this day and age of instant photographic evidence, no less) we get a visual -- and the source is not the professional media. Go figure. It was uploaded to the user gallery at gulflive.com.



Link here: http://photos.gulflive.com/photogallery/2010/06/oiled_pelican.html

A common local sentiment

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