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Cooling of waters in the Gulf of Mexico is killing fish and chilling bathers on the beaches of the Florida Panhandle. The water temperature plunged suddenly from the upper 80s last week to the low 70s. Fish are smothering because of low levels of dissolved oxygen. Scientists are puzzled. The best scientific guess concerns the DeSoto Canyon (about 30 miles off Florida Panhandle beaches). (complete story in the Miami Herald Online, Jul 15, 1998)
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