Comments on: Blackpools sea wall – a poor mans rock pool http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/05/19/blackpools-sea-wall-a-poor-mans-rock-pool/ I'm Steve Richards a strategist and all round tech enthusiast working on enterprise desktop, application delivery and collaboration solutions. I work from home by the coast in the North West of England. All the views expressed in this blog are my own. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:43:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Browne http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/05/19/blackpools-sea-wall-a-poor-mans-rock-pool/comment-page-1/#comment-2795 Mark Browne Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:43:55 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/05/19/blackpools-sea-wall-a-poor-mans-rock-pool/#comment-2795 I really liked the work you did back in the 70's with the seabee's, did this work ever get written up? Mark Browne I really liked the work you did back in the 70′s with the seabee’s, did this work ever get written up?

Mark Browne

]]> By: chris brown http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/05/19/blackpools-sea-wall-a-poor-mans-rock-pool/comment-page-1/#comment-633 chris brown Thu, 08 May 2008 13:59:03 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/05/19/blackpools-sea-wall-a-poor-mans-rock-pool/#comment-633 Steve Very please to get your feedback, as I am the proud inventor of the Seabee, way back in the 1970s when I lived in Sydney. The trouble with the blackpool wall [apart from the reflective walls of the steps] is that the stormwater drains from the south shore area discharge through the wall at various points. After a long dry period, the initial run-off can be highly toxic with a very high BOD [biological oxygen demand] and if the run-off occurs at tide levels below the toe of the wall, the run -off runs along the 'pools' and suffocates the creatures in them. I have seen this happen & of course, the little fish & the crabs don't understand it if you try to catch them to save them. So don't take you kids to see it after a dry spell if its raining & the beach is dry. Seabees can also be seen in Lincolnshire, Sussex, Ardglass, Chesapeake bay, Cocos Keeling Islands, solomom Island & many places in Australia, & most recently in kuwait. regards cb Steve

Very please to get your feedback, as I am the proud inventor of the Seabee, way back in the 1970s when I lived in Sydney.

The trouble with the blackpool wall [apart from the reflective walls of the steps] is that the stormwater drains from the south shore area discharge through the wall at various points. After a long dry period, the initial run-off can be highly toxic with a very high BOD [biological oxygen demand] and if the run-off occurs at tide levels below the toe of the wall, the run -off runs along the ‘pools’ and suffocates the creatures in them. I have seen this happen & of course, the little fish & the crabs don’t understand it if you try to catch them to save them.

So don’t take you kids to see it after a dry spell if its raining & the beach is dry.

Seabees can also be seen in Lincolnshire, Sussex, Ardglass, Chesapeake bay, Cocos Keeling Islands, solomom Island & many places in Australia, & most recently in kuwait.

regards

cb

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