Thousands of starfish wash ashore in South Carolina

Gina Vasselli | Myrtle Beach Sun-News

PAWLEYS ISLAND -- It wasn't pollution or radiation from Japan that caused thousands of starfish to wash up on the shores of Pawleys Island on Monday night.

The answer is much simpler, said Phil Maier, spokesman for the S.C. Department of Natural Resources' Marine Division: rough water.

Maier said the starfish can become dislodged from the rocks they stick to when the weather is rough, as it was Monday night.

Mandy Coble and her children, Charles and Carolina Coble, and their friend Breland Gann were walking on Pawleys Island on Monday night when they first saw "hundreds" of the starfish.

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