[Closed] PSA - CHLORINE GAS LEAK - EASTBOURNE COAST.

I've got mates reporting problems in the Langley area of Eastbourne now. We're about 7 miles inland so hoping it won't get to us.??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-41069085

Nasty, where has that come from ?

I'm in Eastbourne thankfully going home now. Certainly irritated eyes all round.

No idea but could there be ordnance suddenly disturbed in the area? Could it be some.kind of previous WW mine or something that has somehow gone off?
I thought it was only WW1 that had chlorine gas, but was there anything similar from ww2 that might have been disturbed?
Only asking as the reports suggest it is an unknown source, I'd have thought something that produces that kind of stuff is likely to be known.

If they have wind turbines down there just turn them on and blow the fumes away

A leak from a chlorination unit in a water treatment plant, or a large swimming pool?

It's coming in from the sea which is odd, my thought was an ordinance dump.

Nasty stuff.

clumsy attempt at a gas attack?

Let's hope everyone is safe 🙁

Does seem odd doesn't it.. coming from the sea n'all. I reckon the Navy are involved, or it's a cruise ship flushing its sewage and water tanks..

I'd put money on it being a tanker washing their tanks out after leaving the discharge port after carrying chlorine. Somebody is using the magic pipe!

I was kayaking a couple of hours ago within sight of beachy head, few miles to the west, didn't notice anything out the ordinary. Scary stuff though!

We were down there at 1530 to walk the dogs but it was so busy we went inland to litlington and I suspect we've dodged a bullet there. Got reports from various mates of sore eyes after riding through the area.

Plenty of Old folks down there too.. let's hope they're all ok.. 😐

an ARV copper who was trained in CBRN, that on arrival at a scene if all the birds where falling from the sky and people falling to the floor, you knew it would be serious.

Lets hope thats not the case

I'm 10 miles down the coast and did a double take earlier, its often hazy here but this evening its seems different. The sky is blue but the channel is hazy and a bit browner than normal, and I can't see the horizon.

Hopefully its normal...it does look a bit like the photos flying about but that could just be the same murky/normal haze, I'm sure we'd know about it if it was spreading along the coast! There is no wind at the moment but forecast is a northerly tonight

Anyone listening to local radio for updates?

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And don't go anywhere near Father Malone, ok?

Stay safe people.

We were planning to eat chips on the beach at Pevensey Bay this evening but gave that idea up when my eyes began stinging. My eyes have been hyper sensitive for over 40 years since the school caretaker managed to somehow put way more chlorine in the school pool than there should have been. Just glad we went to Birling Gap yesterday afternoon rather than today.

Any WW1 re-enactments going on? Or any gas carriers passing through the Straits?

Watching Pacific rim right now, Kaiju?

Watching Pacific rim right now, Kaiju?

Scary stuff ! Advice to stay away from the coast on the August Bank Holiday 😐

My friend was caught up in this at Eastbourne, burning eyes and throat.
Seems to be clear now.
Still saying they don't know what it was or where it came from, someone is telling Porkys. Porton Down isn't that far away, probably had folk there in under an hour.
Also one of the most controlled waterways in the world so if it was a ship they'd have a few suspects by now.

Funny business. Where's Jivehoneyjive when you need him?

Aren't the eastbourne sewerage works under the seafront?

It was like someone had sprayed fly killer in a room and then closed the door.

I was right there. Paddleboarding from Seaford to Birling gap. I'd just stopped to chat to a moored yacht in Cuckmere Haven when we saw this strange mist envelope Beachy head. It was white and looked a bit like sea mist but more concentrated. I kept paddling but my eyes started stinging. The whole area started to stink of a diesel type smell. I was about a km offshore so decided to turn round and headed in to Cuckmere as was worried about being at sea in this sutuation. However on the beach it was ok and my eyes stopped hurting. Took a quick swim to clear my head. The gas didnt reach Cuckmere which was lucky as the beach was busy and I paddled back to Seaford. There were loads of people up on the cliffs and they got completely enveloped in it. Hope everyone is OK

They are now saying they don't think it was Chlorine, apparently the effects would have been far more serious. So as far as we know, they don't know what is was or where it came from...

@winston 😐

Old chemical warfare shells dumped off Belgium and moved by sea over the years.

Some sort of industrial release from France

Some sort of agricultural treatment

Chemical tanker ship flushing it's tanks.

Hydrogen sulphide release from bacteria in the ocean floor.

Any more candidates?

I wonder where the French dumped their WW1 gas shells?

Probably not close to the French coast, therefore... 🙂

On a serious note, hopefully no consequences for the elderly or those with breathing difficulties.

Here's a handy map

http://www.nonproliferation.org/chemical-weapon-munitions-dumped-at-sea/

@ epicyclo - the Hurd Deep looks a possible spot, if the Brits were willing to share.

Any more candidates?

Fishing trawler disturbing dumped chemical ordnance?

Which could make it hard to determine the cause.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-22198566

Candidates ? All a bit unlikely imo ...

France is 80 miles away and wind usually not Northerly, will check Sovereign Light Vessel data
Munitions dumping spots are well know and marked on charts but seems unlikely to have a leak 50m down and that get to the surface and then form a gas. I believe it would disperse in the water on the way up. Hurd Deep must be 150 miles from Eastbourne ?
Ship cleaning tanks ? Possible but with ais they are all tracked now so doing that in the English Channel would be pretty daft

Hydrogen sulphide release from bacteria in the ocean floor.

Not that. In low concentrations it's distinctively smelly, and in higher concentrations it's odourless but very toxic.

Boo.....I was wondering if planet Earth was going all Avatar

They had chemical response in there sharpish must have got samples & run it through a mobile chromatograph straight away, so at the very least know what it wasn't.

Must be doing some mass spec now

Southerly wind yesterday, chemical discharge from France most likely, that or naughty tanker.

No quakes lately so not Gojira/ Kaiju 🙁

http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_uk_events.html

Suppose it could have been a trawler dredging up munitions

If the wind was stronger than what its was, a light Southerly 5-10knts, and blown into a sea breeze maybe 15knts+ then I reckon it would have dispersed quite quickly. As it was hardly any wind and a bit of a sea fret held it down and light winds blew it onshore..

My step sister did a sponsored walk on the downs on Saturday.
They stopped off for a rest and she said it felt as if she had pepper spray in her eyes.
Not sure where exactly that was but the same symptoms a day earlier , how does that fit in the puzzle?
She is a Wing Commander in the raf so I'm assuming she must have done some sort of chemical training and know whats what.

Gas? Pfffft. My arse. You know the drill. First some mashed taters ...

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Poison gas drifting across the coast. Still. Never mind, eh? Close the windows and carry on.

Any more candidates?

He who smelt it dealt it?

So far only Winston claims to have smelt it.

France is 80 miles away and wind usually not Northerly, will check Sovereign Light Vessel data

Winds blow from, currents flow to.

Lots of ships lost during WW1 full of really nasty things....... after 100yrs of corrosion it could be leakage from these?

Once my team found what appeared to be a deactivated chemical weapons sample set for the Home Guard when moving a set of museum exhibits..... phoned the RAOC who Gleefully advised that they were still active and just as nasty as the day it was made...then took it away for disposal....

The day before one of my guys had been shaking it and saying that the liquids looked so dull it must just be water with colouring

apparently winds too light to have blown from france

my moneys on a tanker

There was a brown haze in the distance over the sea when we were fishing at Brixham last night.
Last time i saw something like it was in Lanzarote

T'was light indeed...

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T'was light indeed...

Is the speed in knots or m/s?

If it's m/s then that's not calm, a decent force 4 breeze from the South.

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Housey housey!

What do I win?

A gas mask?

😆

Plenty of Wave Bouys giving out all that data along the UK coastline, ya just have to know where to look.

That's Seaford, Pevansey was giving out pretty much the same..

Probably a water treatment plant venting chlorine.

If someone seeks out the tanker movements maybe the STW sleuths could send this off to the MCA.

If enough of the inhabitants across the channel have the same bug as me then it could be that, the results I'm having are certainly making my eyes water 🙁

There was a brown haze in the distance over the sea when we were fishing at Brixham last night.

That would be Torquay 😉

Is the speed in knots or m/s?

Could have blown over from France, it was still enough that a cloud wouldn't disperse, but you'd be looking for a leak 10-20 hours before, so something overnight around midnight.

^^ speed in knots in that chart.

Quite right jam bo, I know that just posted bollix 😳

[url= http://news.sky.com/story/danger-from-sussex-gas-cloud-has-passed-police-say-11009906 ]It was a meteorological phenomenon[/url]

I suppose ozone quite likely , Occam's razor & all that

Ozone comes from NO/NO2 breakdown, we've certainly had the sun, busy day driving on France, or a tanker in the channel, even big fertilizer dump ?

they do ozone forecasts, not sure how you look at from a few days ago- actually have be to be a few days b4 as it takes a few days for NO surge to break down & track wind patterns over a week maybe.

http://www.irceline.be/en/air-quality/forecasts/ozone/ozone?set_language=en

How could it have blown over from France if it was too still to disperse?

Bbc news hinting coastguard are interested in ships going through channel.

It was a meteorological phenomenon

Yeah, right. That's what they WANT you to think.

WTF? The air is literally unfit to breathe now! I knew things were bad, but they are worse than bad, it's crazy!! At least I've got my TV and my steel belted radials.

Quite right jam bo, I know that just posted bollix

And just as I was thinking the yachty rich persona had just been rumbled...

Chemtrail leak. Innit.

With all the concerns about air quality, and there being sampling stations all over the place to check for pollution, it's extraordinary that all the 'experts' are stumped for an answer.
There must be someone with an empty bottle or something full of tainted air they could sample.

Brown, fuel smell, singing eyes and throat. On a strong sunny day.

My money's on photochemical smog.

With all the concerns about air quality, and there being sampling stations all over the place to check for pollution, it's extraordinary that all the 'experts' are stumped for an answer.
There must be someone with an empty bottle or something full of tainted air they could sample.

My thoughts exactly - they are pretty relaxed about the whole affair. Decaying ordinance? Mebbe. ISIS attack?Dunno. Gonna find out? Tomorrow, perhaps.

I reckon it's just a cloud of traffic pollution

My thoughts exactly - they are pretty relaxed about the whole affair. Decaying ordinance? Mebbe. ISIS attack?Dunno. Gonna find out? Tomorrow, perhaps.

I imagine they were able to get samples as they were there pretty rapidly, problem is that a had is by its nature very diffuse, actual amount they have be very small.

Used some with a mobile chromatograph, in their response unit but that's better at eliminating things than identifying, hence able to say it wasn't chlorine quite quickly.

It's much tougher to ID an unknown substance.

A photochemical soup of various compounds even tougher.

vickypea - Member
I reckon it's just a cloud of traffic pollution

This is by far the most likely we produce enough toxic chemicals just going about our daily business without getting all exotic - throw in some extra strong sunshine releasing free radicals & your eyes are itching b4 you know it

This is by far the most likely we produce enough toxic chemicals just going about our daily business without getting all exotic - throw in some extra strong sunshine releasing free radicals & your eyes are itching b4 you know it

Don't think it really had to be that sunny

There's a 'weekend' effect to smog where it can increase at weekends off is sunnier than in the week and rural areas can often experience higher levels than urban of the wind is right.

Im unusually calm winds in the channel are a big factor in this one, allowing the cloud to form and study but not dissipate, it was obvs sunny that day as there were a lot of people on the beach, not to mention a big surge in traffic down there due to the bank holiday travel

Strong enough for sunburn. Plenty strong enough for HC breakdown and formation of hydroxyl radicals and ozone.

Car / air pollution theory has had some press coverage. As fr as I know the usual thinkibg is that air pollution doesn't "concentrate" due to metreological affects to produce a gas cloud which would cause eye irritation / vomiting.

I think a ship has released something or had a leak / accident. Given wind direction and distance to France that seems the most likely

not heard anything else bout this

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/29/investigators-believe-toxic-cloud-on-sussex-coast-came-from-ship

I was wondering from winstons 'smelt like diesel' comment whether it was a boat with its engines running badly rather than anything in its cargo being vented or tipped overboard- part burnt fuel or oil / coolant getting mixed into the exhaust.

Algae bloom.