Bizarre Blob of Arctic Goo: 12 Miles Long - Visits Alaska
Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea between Wainwright and Barrow.
No one in the area can recall seeing anything like it before.
This huge thing is not oil. One coast guard official said the following:
“It kind of has an odor; I can’t describe it.”
Nobody knows for sure what the gunk is, but Petty Officer 1st Class Terry Hasenauer says the Coast Guard is sure what it is not.
“It’s certainly biological,” Hasenauer said. “It’s definitely not an oil product of any kind. It has no characteristics of an oil, or a hazardous substance, for that matter.
“It’s definitely, by the smell and the makeup of it, it’s some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism.”
