KI (potassium iodide) is a salt of stable (not radioactive) iodine that can help block radioactive iodine from being absorbed by the thyroid gland, thus protecting this gland from radiation injury. The thyroid gland is the part of the body that is most sensitive to radioactive iodine.
Florida officials announced this week that they would add another 45 feet to the end of the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier, which is currently under construction, in a bid to bring back the title of the Gulf of Mexico's longest pier. When it opens in May, the Navarre Beach pier will reach 1,545 feet into the Gulf.
You've got to be able to fish from it, Lawley laughed. We've got to have rules.. Like the Gulf State Park pier, Santa Rosa County's is being built to replace one destroyed in storms. Hurricane Ivan took out Gulf State Park's 875-foot-long, circa-1968 pier in 2004.