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	Red Tide

pokkets

6-30-2007 12:18 PM

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red tide, neurotoxin, algal bloom, water, ocean

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7-1-2007 1:32 PM

allenmarkowski

I remember seeing a lot of this in the 50s->70s growing up in Orange County in southern California. Strange stuff.

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