Turbers on the Beaches

On many occasions we find alarming news in some provincial media that warn us of the spontaneous appearance of possible oil spills (the famous chapapote) on some beaches of the Cantabrian coast. And this news usually coincides with moments of living equinoccial tides, which have a greater tide run (i.e., a greater difference in the height reached by the sea on the coast between high tide and low tide), or with storms, galernas or coastal storms …