It happens...

[Old Man in the Sea]

Yea I heard Fukushima’s radioactive water was beginning to cause outboard motor problems off the San Diego Coast...

[dorado50]

Point being...............?

[ful-rac]

I think it's operator error....or maybe it's the radiation....nah...operator error

[driftwood]

the same thing happen to me just a week ago Jim. The first thing that came out of my mouth was....."The sky is falling, the sky is falling, meterors are falling every day"

So now radiation is in our fuel production?

Sorry Jim couldn't help myself

[jorluivil]

Here's what I think happened




A radiation burn is damage to the skin or other biological tissue caused by exposure to radiation. The radiation types of greatest concern are thermal radiation, radio frequency energy, ultraviolet light and ionizing radiation.
The most common type of radiation burn is a sunburn caused by UV radiation. High exposure to X-rays during diagnostic medical imaging or radiotherapy can also result in radiation burns. As the ionizing radiation interacts with cells within the body—damaging them—the body responds to this damage, typically resulting in erythema—that is, redness around the damaged area. Radiation burns are often associated with radiation-induced cancer due to the ability of ionizing radiation to interact with and damage DNA, occasionally inducing a cell to become cancerous. Cavity magnetrons can be improperly used to create surface and internal burning. Depending on the photon energy, gamma radiation can cause very deep gamma burns, with ⁶⁰Co internal burns are common. Beta burns tend to be shallow as beta particles are not able to penetrate deep into the person; these burns can be similar to sunburn.
Space Weather: Sunspots, Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections


Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor | May 13, 2013 01:10pm ET





Though the sun lies 93 million miles (149 million km) from Earth, its unceasing activity assures an impact on our planet far beyond the obvious light and heat. From a constant stream of particles in the form of solar wind to the unpredictable bombardment from solar flares and coronal mass ejections, Earth often feels the effects of its stellar companions. Less noticeable are the sunspots crossing the solar surface, though they are related to the more violent interactions. All of these fall under the definition of "space weather."
Watch a very large solar flare:





Radiation burns can also occur with high power radio transmitters at any frequency where the body absorbs radio frequency energy and converts it to heat.^[1] The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) considers 50 watts to be the lowest power above which radio stations must evaluate emission safety. Frequencies considered especially dangerous occur where the human body can become resonant, at 35 MHz, 70 MHz, 80-100 MHz, 400 MHz, and 1 GHz.^[2] Exposure to microwaves of too high intensity can cause microwave burns.

Why is the light blue in water?

Water is intrinsically blue because of its selective absorption of the red end of the spectrum. One explanation of the Cerenkov effect in water is that the atoms in the water become excited by the Cerenkov shock wave and then de-excite, emitting blue light.
Another possible explanation is that the number of photons emitted by such a charged particle is inversely proportional to wavelength. This would mean that more photons are emitted with shorter wavelengths, thereby moving the spectrum to the blue side.

[ronbo613]

So I'm out this morning making squid in the skiff and my outboard dies at idle, it then becomes difficult to start. I get it running do another drift and it dies again. At this point I put down my kicker and it won't start at all. It takes maybe fifteen minutes to get the outboard running again, and I headed in. At the ramp I could not even get it restarted to put it on the trailer.

Just put 40 bucks of gas in the thing, but I figure with both motors it's got to be bad fuel. I can't remember the last time technical problems forced me off the water. Should of gone Kayaking.

We always used Berrymans B12 Chemtool in the gas tanks of our boat's inboard and outboard motors to get rid of moisture and keep the fuel system clean.

[Saba Slayer]

You didn't miss anything...my kayak ran great...I made a bunch of squid that will be Calamari dinner tonight...one huge Bat Ray a couple of nice Sandies, a few Bonito and No big fat butts !
I take it you didn't get very far south from MDR?
Jim / Saba Slayer

[Dim Jay]

Originally Posted by jorluivil

Here's what I think happened

A radiation burn is damage to the skin or other biological tissue caused by exposure to radiation. The radiation types of greatest concern are thermal radiation, radio frequency energy, ultraviolet light and ionizing radiation.
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Normally I like to stay out of these controversial and heated discussions, but your quote caught my eye, so I'll give my take on the whole thing.

There are only 2 possible scenarios that can happen because of this radiation crisis:

1) The Sky is truly falling, radiation is real, and we will all be dead or mutated within a few years if we don't get this radiation leak, or the ensuing radiation plume under control. Your only option now is to try to somehow start building up a tolerance to the Cesium. I have known this leak was coming since 1992, so I have been taking small cesium doses everyday to build up a tolerance.

2) You can try to convince yourself that the sky is not falling (even though it really is), and when the world ends, you might finally change your ill-informed opinion, and you will wish you weren't so hard headed. At that point it won't really matter though, because you will be dead.

Any Yellowtail Tuna or Albacores that we catch off of the kelp paddies in La Jolla will have trace amount of radiation. You are in denial if you won’t admit that.

Just my take.
Jay

[Bubble Boy]

Originally Posted by Dim Jay

Any Yellowtail Tuna that we catch off of the kelp paddies in La Jolla will have trace amount of radiation. You are in denial if you won’t admit that.

Excellent point Jay!

For those of you that don't know, Jay has memorized the internet regarding this topic, and many others. I would listen to him if I were you.

[JPSURF]

Originally Posted by Dim Jay

Normally I like to stay out of these controversial and heated discussions, but your quote caught my eye, so I'll give my take on the whole thing.

There are only 2 possible scenarios that can happen because of this radiation crisis:

1) The Sky is truly falling, radiation is real, and we will all be dead or mutated within a few years if we don't get this radiation leak, or the ensuing radiation plume under control. Your only option now is to try to somehow start building up a tolerance to the Cesium. I have known this leak was coming since 1992, so I have been taking small cesium doses everyday to build up a tolerance.


2) You can try to convince yourself that the sky is not falling (even though it really is), and when the world ends, you might finally change your ill-informed opinion, and you will wish you weren't so hard headed. At that point it won't really matter though, because you will be dead.

Any Yellowtail Tuna or Albacores that we catch off of the kelp paddies in La Jolla will have trace amount of radiation. You are in denial if you won’t admit that.

Just my take.
Jay

I wish my Bosses new about Consistency like you do in Your Edits Jay

Now I will sit back and Continue to Read all your Great Posts Word for Word.

Oh hey can you Put up one of your YT pics or maybe a Thresher pic?
I hear they are Biting!

Thx JP