It turned out we were blowing tar residue from along the concrete and blasting tar balls onto the runway.

By that night, the drill planners said, the first tar balls would have been washing up on the beach.

In the spring of 2006 after the ice melted off the lake additional clean up operations had to begin as tar balls began to surface.

Pools of crude oil as much as 4 inches deep hit Alabama beaches which previously had only been getting tar balls.

They say it will show up first in the form of small tar balls.

Gossage later signed the pine tar ball "Barry, I threw the f***ing thing."

Why do we see so many more tar balls from the earlier disaster?

The same beach was flecked everywhere with tiny tar balls.

A few dead penguins, a few little black tar balls sticking to your feet on the beach.

He took one look at my overalls, which had become an unrollable tar ball, and said: "Throw them away.