The last time anyone really thought about The Blob was when Steve McQueen starred in the hokey sci-fi slash horror movie. Little did we know though that lurking in the depths of our oceans lived a real Blob which has now decided to surface off of the shores of Alaska (oh that is so open for some Palin jokes).
According to report in the Anchorage Daily News it was some hunters in the Wainwright area who first noticed a thick, dark and gooey mass that has been determined to be drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters. Officials in tandem with the US Coast Guard flew out to Wainwright to investigate and found ‘globs’ of the stuff floating miles offshore and collected some samples for testing.
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.”
Source: Anchorage Daily News – Huge blob of Arctic goo floats past Slope communities
Video of fly over by officials can be seen here
So much for it only happens in the movies eh.
