We have found the river to the forty mile mark to be very pleasant with a
bit over a knot of current. It is a bit high just by eyeball survey, but
not excessively so. There are a few chunks of debris that could ruin your
day, but the river is in no way choked with the stuff - I'd call it a light
infestation.
We continued to see oil booms ready to deploy to about the 20-mile mark
along the sides of the river where sloughs and bayous enter. I suppose the
thinking is that a boom laid mostly parallel to the flow will keep oil out
of the smaller bodies of water. Any attempt to keep oil out of the bays and
tidal estuaries like the Mobile River are doomed to failure as even a 1-knot
current will pass oil under a boom.
Rich Gano
CALYPSO (GB-42 #295)
Southport, FL (near Panama City)
We have found the river to the forty mile mark to be very pleasant with a
bit over a knot of current. It is a bit high just by eyeball survey, but
not excessively so. There are a few chunks of debris that could ruin your
day, but the river is in no way choked with the stuff - I'd call it a light
infestation.
We continued to see oil booms ready to deploy to about the 20-mile mark
along the sides of the river where sloughs and bayous enter. I suppose the
thinking is that a boom laid mostly parallel to the flow will keep oil out
of the smaller bodies of water. Any attempt to keep oil out of the bays and
tidal estuaries like the Mobile River are doomed to failure as even a 1-knot
current will pass oil under a boom.
Rich Gano
CALYPSO (GB-42 #295)
Southport, FL (near Panama City)
