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All three newscasts offered horrendous tales of pollution. CBS' Mark Strassmann showed us a destroyed oysterbed, with $500,000 worth of tainted molluscs now inedible. He waved a live crab at the camera. It was caught on Saturday just before a fishing ban was imposed: "This could be one of the last crabs caught in these waters for some time." Michelle Kosinski on NBC brought us the Grand Isle wetlands: "Today porpoises played in greasy waters. Pelicans, on the edges of their nesting grounds, tried to pull oil from their wings. And beneath us, thousand of oysters, all unfit for harvest."
On ABC, Good Morning America's weathercaster Sam Champion went diving with Philippe Cousteau of Planet Green. "The Gulf's crystal blue waters are now filled with these massive dark storm clouds of oil and chemical sludge, globs of sticky oil being broken up and pulled down into plumes running more than 25 feet deep," he showed us. The combination of oil and Corexit, the chemical dispersant being applied by BP, is so toxic that Champion was not allowed to dive with any exposed skin: "We donned rubber industrial hazmat dry suits and 30lb hard hats rigged with underwater cameras."
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