Fish kill around oil platform makes waves - al.com

Fish kill around oil platform makes waves - al.com: "Local divers said it was like dropping down on a spooky, underwater ghost town. An oil platform 20 miles south of Dauphin Island that is normally swarming with fish was completely barren, with not a living thing in sight Sunday morning.

Only upon reaching the bottom did the divers discover the bodies. Red snapper, amberjack, spadefish, cigar minnows — everything that should have been swimming through the platform's legs — lay dead on the seafloor.

'We had been at one rig earlier that day. It was loaded with fish,' said Will Cooksey, who dove the rig Sunday. 'At this one, I didn't see anything at the surface, so I just went deeper and deeper, all the way to the bottom. It was real murky, so I flipped on my light and saw dead fish everywhere.'"