Journalists were invited to take a stroll along the beach at the Thai Navy's Sea Turtle Conservation Center in Sattahip. But it wasn't the sea turtles that they were invited to view it was a nasty 200 meter long oil slick clinging to the water's edge.
Officials said that the slick had become bad in recent days and seemed to be even worse in the early morning as the tide came in. The slick was creating a bad smell that wafted the full length of the beach. Fortunately it seams that the turtles had a good sense of smell and were giving the beach the elbow or giving it the flipper whatever way you want to look at it the presence of oil was not a good thing and officials worried about the pollution of t he turtle habitat and the local marine habitat that was home to dozens of species.
Coast Guard and Naval assets have been deployed to try to find the source of the sticky, smelly pollutants.
