In Photos: Giant gulf tar blobs wash ashore
It's more than three weeks into the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, and tar blobs as big as 8 inches across (often called "tar balls," regardless of their shape) have begun washing ashore. South of New Orleans, the entire beach at Port Fourchon is littered with shiny globs of oil,Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries spokeswoman Laura Deslatte told the Associated Press — more oil than her agency's workers have seen washed up anywhere else.
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
In Mississippi, officials were testing tar blobs to see whether they came from the Gulf of Mexico spill, AP reported. Blobs have also washed up on Alabama's picturesque Dauphin Island, where tourism is the biggest industry. The oil spill is "a direct threat to our economy," the mayor told Time magazine.
Despite the mess, oil that's broken into blobs (rather than one big slick) "could be to our benefit," a Coast Guard official told Reuters — "because if it does impact shore it's not the whole, it's that portion that came ashore."
Other oil spill headlines in Yahoo! News:
• Obama blasts oil companies
• Where is the oil? And where will it end up?
• Disaster may cast a long and costly economic shadow
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