Comments on: Offshore energy platforms provide great fishing! http://radioviceonline.com/offshore-energy-platforms-provide-great-fishing/ The blog home of The Jim Vicevich Show Thu, 24 May 2012 20:46:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dimsdale http://radioviceonline.com/offshore-energy-platforms-provide-great-fishing/comment-page-1/#comment-4020 Dimsdale Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:42:54 +0000 http://radioviceonline.com/?p=11466#comment-4020 I can vouch for this, both as a biologist and a former SCUBA instructor.  Any structure underwater that can provide shelter for fish and places for seaweeds and corals to grow is a literal undersea oasis.  That is the main reason that reefs are so filled with fish.  And the more fish that come in, the more that follow, either as predators or grazers.  Despite what you see on TV, the majority of the bottom of the ocean is closer to a desert than a lush jungle.  Bare sand is bare of life in quantity.  Find a pile of rocks or a sunken bucket, you will find something living there.  I have even seen pictures of lobsters on the edge of the continental shelf, sitting in (and filling) what looked like beer cans.  They were actually 55 gallon drums, and the lobsters were huge! When they sink cleaned up ships, boats anything, even tires, they become a focal point for life, and offshore oil rigs are no different.  Radical greenies want to have you believe that oil platforms are festering cesspools of oil and refuse, when the exact opposite is true.  It defines and typifies their ignorance, as does their lack of understanding of climatic cycles on this planet.  A modern example of cutting off you nose to spite your face. I can vouch for this, both as a biologist and a former SCUBA instructor.  Any structure underwater that can provide shelter for fish and places for seaweeds and corals to grow is a literal undersea oasis.  That is the main reason that reefs are so filled with fish.  And the more fish that come in, the more that follow, either as predators or grazers.  Despite what you see on TV, the majority of the bottom of the ocean is closer to a desert than a lush jungle.  Bare sand is bare of life in quantity.  Find a pile of rocks or a sunken bucket, you will find something living there.  I have even seen pictures of lobsters on the edge of the continental shelf, sitting in (and filling) what looked like beer cans.  They were actually 55 gallon drums, and the lobsters were huge!

When they sink cleaned up ships, boats anything, even tires, they become a focal point for life, and offshore oil rigs are no different.  Radical greenies want to have you believe that oil platforms are festering cesspools of oil and refuse, when the exact opposite is true. 

It defines and typifies their ignorance, as does their lack of understanding of climatic cycles on this planet.  A modern example of cutting off you nose to spite your face.

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