ezcompany
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080214-oceans.html
virtually every body of water has been touched by man.
virtually every body of water has been touched by man.
NG: No Pristine Reefs Left
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There are entire ISLANDS of floating garbage in the ocean that literally stretch from horizon to horizon: pretty much everything that gets out away from the shore in the oceans is driven by currents together in the same few locations.
Virtually no one is studying the effects of this on marine life, in part because these things exist in international water where no country has any real specific incentive to care.
We don't have a clue whether or not natural reefs will even still exist 20 or 30 years from now. We may well be crashing the ocean no different than when we sometimes crash our own tanks.
Virtually no one is studying the effects of this on marine life, in part because these things exist in international water where no country has any real specific incentive to care.
We don't have a clue whether or not natural reefs will even still exist 20 or 30 years from now. We may well be crashing the ocean no different than when we sometimes crash our own tanks.
HBtank
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I think garbage is a problem, a huge one with many facets, but your depicton of it just seems like an exaggerated myth.
I think someone credible coined the word "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" (which is not all that far from the truth) and I think people got carried away with the name and started a myth about some 2X texas sized garbage island in the pacific. It is more of a "soup" in the area of the gyre, and far from some mass of garbage.
This in no way makes the problem of garbage and plastics less important... it seems like one of the "bad" things the internet can create. It makes the real problem much harder to deal with when we are dealing in fiction. It gives the uncaring ammo.
I think someone credible coined the word "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" (which is not all that far from the truth) and I think people got carried away with the name and started a myth about some 2X texas sized garbage island in the pacific. It is more of a "soup" in the area of the gyre, and far from some mass of garbage.
This in no way makes the problem of garbage and plastics less important... it seems like one of the "bad" things the internet can create. It makes the real problem much harder to deal with when we are dealing in fiction. It gives the uncaring ammo.
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dose the ocean with kalk and run a 300' tall skimmer in the middle of the ocean. it should bring your DOCs down.
Oh, and cut down the photoperiod to help with the nuisance algae.
Use a giant turkey baster to keep the "garbage" afloat in the water column.
or, the 1 time solution to it all:
Put a filter sock on it.
Oh, and cut down the photoperiod to help with the nuisance algae.
Use a giant turkey baster to keep the "garbage" afloat in the water column.
or, the 1 time solution to it all:
Put a filter sock on it.
poedag
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Nice to see that our research made it here. You can check out our homepage www.nceas.ucsb.edu/GlobalMarine for more information and a free link to the Science article. We also have a .kml that you can load into Google Earth.
poedag
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check out this article written by Charles Moore, who sailed right through it
http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/1103/1103_feature.html
if you are looking for more than a personal story, he co-authored an article about the phenomenon located at:
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Moore-North-Pacific-Central-Gyre.htm
hope this helps to reveal just how poorly (in one case) we have been treating our oceans,
Colin
http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/1103/1103_feature.html
if you are looking for more than a personal story, he co-authored an article about the phenomenon located at:
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Moore-North-Pacific-Central-Gyre.htm
hope this helps to reveal just how poorly (in one case) we have been treating our oceans,
Colin
