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BoatU.S., the USA’s largest organization of recreational boaters and ValvTect Marine Fuels, the largest supplier of marine fuel, have renewed a cooperative agreement that identifies BoatU.S. Cooperating Marinas that are also Certified ValvTect Marinas.

Certified ValvTect Marinas participating in the BoatU.S. program are identified with the ValvTect Marine Fuel logo on their individual web pages on www.boatus.com/MSL.

Under the agreement, ValvTect also identifies each BoatU.S. Cooperating Marina at www.valvtect.com. “We are pleased to highlight BoatU.S. Cooperating Marinas on our web site where BoatU.S. members can receive a discount on ValvTect Marine Fuels, as well as other products and services. As a lifelong boater and 35-year BoatU.S. member, I appreciate the many services BoatU.S. offers,” said Jerry Nessenson, President of ValvTect.

Under the agreement, ValvTect also identifies each BoatU.S. Cooperating Marina at www.valvtect.com. “We are pleased to highlight BoatU.S. Cooperating Marinas on our web site where BoatU.S. members can receive a discount on ValvTect Marine Fuels, as well as other products and services. As a lifelong boater and 35-year BoatU.S. member, I appreciate the many services BoatU.S. offers,” said Jerry Nessenson, President of ValvTect. “Our half a million members own a wide variety of boats with many types of engines, but they all want fuel that can stand up to harsh marine environments,” said BoatU.S. Cooperating Marina Program Manager David Mann. “ValvTect’s gasoline and diesel fuels help them avoid having a bad day on the water, giving them one less thing to worry about. It’s a smart partnership and just another way how we make boating better for our members,” he added.

USA. BoatU.S., ValvTect renew co-operative fuel program - BYM News (press release)

The ‘pests’ won this ‘chemical war’, of course. That was pre-ordained by the biological laws of nature (natural selection, etc.). They adapted and became biologically resistant to the deadly chemicals. How about that. Darwin was correct. Who would have thought? Not Shell (or did they?).

And as strange as it may seem, the ‘fall out’ from Shell’s very nasty, long lived pesticides Dieldrin/Aldrin is as persistent and deadly as the radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons. Those pesticides poison everything, cause cancer, produce birth defects, etc., and can produce health problems many years after exposure. And pesticide laden dust from agricultural fields travels with the wind just like ‘radioactive fallout’.

It is a very apt analogy, and the environment damage is just as serious. Those pesticides are the equivalent of an ‘environmental nuclear bomb’. And those poisonous ‘bombs’ were sold and employed in the ‘chemical war’ against agricultural ‘pests’ all over the planet.

The ‘pests’ won this ‘chemical war’, of course. That was pre-ordained by the biological laws of nature (natural selection, etc.). They adapted and became biologically resistant to the deadly chemicals. How about that. Darwin was correct. Who would have thought? Not Shell (or did they?).

Deadly environmental contamination by Shell chemicals - Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (blog)

A short time ago I learned that one of these moron drilling managers had made to a very high management level within Shell. What can I say, ‘Crap floats’.

Many years ago I worked for Shell USA. I did exploration work mostly and for two different onshore divisions. In the mid-1980′s Shell was a non-operating partner with Hunt drilling in the central basin of Michigan. On one particular well a geo-pressured carbonate was pegged at 8000 feet. Big surprise. Reservoir pressure was about 8000 psi. We were expecting about 4500 psi. Needless to say the well blew out. The grossly underrated BOP’s didn’t have a chance of controlling the thing. Flung drill pipe all over the site. Luckily it was a gas well and it caught fire immediately. The flow rate was upwards of about 25 mmcfpd with an H2S content in excess of 30%. Nobody was killed. Don’t asked me how we lucked out. Maybe it was because Hunt was operating. We never did kill that well. It did burn with a pretty blue flame however. It roared like a high speed train and was throwing chunks of rock like a volcano. After a few weeks it finally bridged off naturally. Good thing because we had no idea how we were going to kill it. Too much open hole.

From that time forward our drilling managers kept insisting that we shouldn’t be drilling exploration wells unless we knew we were going to make a discovery. It was simply too dangerous. The meetings between exploration and production on each new exploration well became surreal with these idiots prattering on endlessly about safety issues and ‘unacceptable risk’.

A short time ago I learned that one of these moron drilling managers had made to a very high management level within Shell. What can I say, ‘Crap floats’.

Deadheads at Shell - Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (blog)

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A woman at the beach Saturday morning and a teenage boy in a retention pond across town in the afternoon had separate near-drowning experiences.

Shortly before 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Jacksonville Fire and Rescue responded to a drowning call at Sixth Avenue North and First Street, said spokesman Tom Francis.

Medics took the woman, who was in critical condition, to Baptist Medical Center Beaches. By the time they got to the hospital, Francis said the woman's condition had improved significantly.

Law & Disorder: 2 hospitalized after near-drownings - Florida Times-Union

40-foot fishing boat sank three miles east of Gloucester Harbor Thursday morning and its captain, the sole occupant, was rescued by a passing sailboat, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The fishing boat, the Dirty Martha, was spotted taking on water by the sailboat, the 37-foot Gloucester-based Alambre, which sent out a mayday call around 11:16 a.m., the Coast Guard said.

Before the Dirty Martha went down, its captain deployed and boarded a life raft. The Alambre then picked up the captain from the liferaft and later turned him over to the Coast Guard, which sent two rescue boats to the scene.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Connie Terrell said the Dirty Martha was registered as a commercial fishing boat out of Brielle, N.J., but did not have any further description of it.

Fishing boat sinks off Gloucester - Boston Herald