Oil Spill - SARASOTA FL - OIL SPILL : Local and national weather and radar for Sarasota visitors and vacation planning. weather for shopping for real estate listings Will Sarasota, Florida get hit by the oil spill and ruin our beaches? Is Sarasota safe from the oil???If you are fishing way out there in the Gulf Stream off Sarasota you'll see wooden palets, bottles, bait boxes and all kinds of assorted trash that has fallen overboard or been washed out into the Gulf.
Why don't you ever see this same debris washing up on the beaches of southwest Florida? The powerful current of the Gulf Stream, about 200 mile off Sarasota, catches trash and debris in it's LOOP CURRENT and sends it south. It's the LOOP CURRENT (aka) Forbidden Zone in the Gulf Stream that act as a conveyer belt and a protective barrier. This is why our beaches are clean today and what will keep the oil well off shore.
