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Not all that long ago our oceans were clean.
There was no radiation in it plastic, garbage, chemicals, not that long ago.
It’s amazing how much damage we have done in a short time.
The great pacific garbage patch.
Old flip-flops, plastic toys, bags, children's pacifiers, toothbrushes, tons of plastic bottles
and even whole yatchs are just some of the rubbish floating in the so-called great pacific garbage patch.
The debris was trapped by the rotational currents of the north pacific gyre,
which draws it from across the north pacific ocean including coastal waters of North America & Japan
and ends up bobbing about like this rubbish soup miles off the coast of California
It is difficult to say just how big the area of ocean trash is,
but some reports say it is roughly three times the size of Texas
Oceanographer & race captain, Charles J Moore dis- covered this while sailing through the north pacific
After competing in a transpact sailing race in 1997.
He was confronted as he said, “with garbage is far as the eye could you see”
The debris has been building up for 50 to 100 years & pieces have been traced back to around 60 years.
There’s even reports of several dozen abandoned yachts floating in the area.
They get into trouble in bad weather. The owner is rescued but the yacht ends up being swept out to sea
never to be recovered.
There is also north Atlantic and an Indian ocean garbage patch.
I read this right off the internet and it's on the
Mail online news service: cars, whole houses and even severed feet in shoes
The vast fields of debris from the Japan earthquake & tsunami that's flowing towards the
US west coast is the article - put up on April 8, 2011
And it gives and insight into what is happening & you’ve got to think about the creatures out there.
First of all we're destroying the water that we depend on.
We’re destroying the home environment of turtles, dolphins
Along the pacific coast there are humpback whales that migrate from Alaska to Mexico & to Hawaii
What is going to happen to them?
Why is more not being done to protect the environment?
We’ve got to all become passionate
or it's going to be the lost and once it’s lost,
it isn’t coming back
At least that's where I see it