“Turtle watch volunteers who walk the beaches consistently every morning at 6:00 a.m., they’re saying the carcasses are disappearing,” Ott told host Keith Olbermann. “People who walk the beaches at night, they’ve seen little baby dolphins wash up dead, flashlights, people descend out of nowhere, carcass gone in 15 minutes. There’s reports from offshore of massive kills on the barrier islands from fishermen who have been working on the spill response… BP’s response has been to use metal detectors to keep and prevent the people from even taking cell phones out to photograph this.”
While at first glance, Ott’s claims might seem conspiratorial, myriad reports have fingered BP’s role in attempting to silence coverage of the spill’s effects. Over the weekend, reports signaled that BP had hired private security contractors to guard some Gulf coast beaches.
