ditchman Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 This "chemical haze" that has affected people on the coast in Sussex...... the met office said the last lot blew over from France...but this is not the case this time as the wind was wrong and no discharges have been registered.......someone mentions it was a ship "washing its tanks " out..... It is described as a strong Chlorine smell.................................. is it possible that surplus gas munitions (mustard gas...chlorine based)....were dumped at sea and these are now leaking...and the chlorine...different specific gravity to that of salt water is making its way to the surface in concentrated form................................ it just seems that for and incident such as this ...nobody has any answers........................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
four-wheel-drive Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 This "chemical haze" that has affected people on the coast in Sussex...... the met office said the last lot blew over from France...but this is not the case this time as the wind was wrong and no discharges have been registered.......someone mentions it was a ship "washing its tanks " out..... It is described as a strong Chlorine smell.................................. is it possible that surplus gas munitions (mustard gas...chlorine based)....were dumped at sea and these are now leaking...and the chlorine...different specific gravity to that of salt water is making its way to the surface in concentrated form................................ it just seems that for and incident such as this ...nobody has any answers........................ Or more lightly they now what it is but prefer not to tell us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuffy Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 Or more lightly they now what it is but prefer not to tell us. That's what I thought . The delay in telling everyone is so they can lie convincingly together . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12gauge82 Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 Or more lightly they now what it is but prefer not to tell us. Wouldn't surprise me unfortunately, got toayim glad I'm not living in that part of the country, I can't see how they can't identify the source either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted August 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 yeah....strange aint it.............................the reason i thought of it ....i was watching some old footage taken at the end of the 2nd world war where they were dumping stuff in the sea thousands of tons of stuff....that i think was inbetween wales and ireland...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesj Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 This "chemical haze" that has affected people on the coast in Sussex...... the met office said the last lot blew over from France...but this is not the case this time as the wind was wrong and no discharges have been registered.......someone mentions it was a ship "washing its tanks " out..... It is described as a strong Chlorine smell.................................. is it possible that surplus gas munitions (mustard gas...chlorine based)....were dumped at sea and these are now leaking...and the chlorine...different specific gravity to that of salt water is making its way to the surface in concentrated form................................ it just seems that for and incident such as this ...nobody has any answers........................ That was/ is my thought, But I see someone has dug up a news report form earlier in the year about a planned chemical attack on a uk beach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesj Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 Here you go http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/manhunt-syrian-scientist-planning-chemical-9586118 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapp Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 Mustard gas doesn't smell of chlorine. Its said to smell like onions, garlic, mustard or lilacs. It's an odd event for sure though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old'un Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 With the warm weather we have had the last few days could it be a gas given off by algae??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver pigeon69 Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 (edited) We were advised to keep our doors and windows closed in Hastings! There were a few people admitted to hospital with eye and throat irritations, but i think they were from Bexhill, which apparently had it worse. I didn't smell or feel anything and i was on the coast in Hastings in the evening. Edit; Would the people admitted to Hospital be tested/ have a toxicology? report done? Edited August 28, 2017 by silver pigeon69 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted August 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 Mustard gas doesn't smell of chlorine. Its said to smell like onions, garlic, mustard or lilacs. It's an odd event for sure though. the RNLI reported a different smell.....a sweet smell like melting plastic !!...............it is bizzare tho' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortune Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 (edited) is this sort of thing happening with some regularity, but it isn't being reported? one afternon about a month ago there was a very odd chemical smell that drifted up from the coast direction on a fairly brisk breeze. This lasted for about half an hour or so. A bloke down the road who had been working out in his garden mentioned it to me so I wasn't imagining it. the smell didn't cause any problem health wise. to me it sort of smelt like a mixture of acetone. some sort of fuel and burnt plastic.I didn't really take a lot of notice of it at the time because it was just an odd smell but it didn't cause any health issue at all. since this episode the other day another person has comented on another occation recently where there was an odd smell on the wind. whatever it was must have been a fair disgharge of something to cover the area as it did. I did wonder if it was either some sort of old munition that had gotten corroded through or some sort of chemical weapon defence test to see how the stuff performs across open countryside. They did test like this with some sort of fungi spores to see how a device on the underground would spread through the tubes. Edited August 28, 2017 by fortune Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 Is there a chemical plant along the coast where this could leak from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fern01 Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 Planes, military and civil somtimes dump large amounts of fuel to reduce weight before an emergency landing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortune Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 In regards to the incident that I mentioned there isn't any sort of chemical industry or anything that I can think of that would account for the smell or the amount of time / quantity of material that would have caused it. Although we are some miles away from the coast, it is only residential and agricultural. At certain times of the year We sometimes get agricultural cow smells but this wasn't anything like that. It came and went but no one really noticed or commented on it. Now that the flag has been raised, if it happens again more notice and investigation might take place. If the lifeboat had motored out into the channel upwind or an aircraft sent out, it might have found the source of that mist cloud but I don't suppose that it was thought about at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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