Pacific 'dead zone' said to exceed fears

August 11th, 2006 in Space & Earth / Environment
Pacific 'dead zone' said to exceed fears (AP)

Crouched on the back of the research vessel Elakha, in this Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2004, file photo, Oregon State University graduate student Anthony Kirincich attaches wings to a device called an Acrobat that controls the path of an array of instruments while they are towed behind the boat in the Pacific off Cape Perpetua. Kirincich and others from OSU and the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Coastal Ocean are gathering data about the return of a dead zone off the central Oregon Coast. Low in oxygen, it suffocates sea life that can´t move out of the way. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

(AP) -- Scientists say the oxygen-starved "dead zone" along the Pacific Coast that is causing massive crab and fish die-offs is worse than initially thought.

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