What a mess...
"In the broad expanse of the northern Pacific Ocean, there exists the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a slowly moving, clockwise spiral of currents created by a high-pressure system of air currents. The area is an oceanic desert, filled with tiny phytoplankton but few big fish or mammals. Due to its lack of large fish and gentle breezes, fishermen and sailors rarely travel through the gyre. But the area is filled with something besides plankton: trash, millions of pounds of it, most of it plastic. It's the largest landfill in the world, and it floats in the middle of the ocean..." http://science.howstuffworks.com/env...bage-patch.htm
And news from the Uto Ni Yalo Fijian Canoe concerning the trash...
"The flotilla of double-hulled sailing canoes that left the Hawaiian Islands more than a week ago has encountered masses of rubbish floating in the northeastern Pacific. Capt. Johnathan Smith, aboard the Fijian canoe Uto Ni Yalo, said they have been passing through so much rubbish that it's difficult to keep a list of it in the log. "That's how much rubbish is out here," Smith wrote on the vessel's blog. "It is shocking here in the North Pacific." ... http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/2..._voyagers.html
Wonder if we could actually clean it up?
Of course we'd then be bringing it to land.
"In the broad expanse of the northern Pacific Ocean, there exists the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a slowly moving, clockwise spiral of currents created by a high-pressure system of air currents. The area is an oceanic desert, filled with tiny phytoplankton but few big fish or mammals. Due to its lack of large fish and gentle breezes, fishermen and sailors rarely travel through the gyre. But the area is filled with something besides plankton: trash, millions of pounds of it, most of it plastic. It's the largest landfill in the world, and it floats in the middle of the ocean..." http://science.howstuffworks.com/env...bage-patch.htm
And news from the Uto Ni Yalo Fijian Canoe concerning the trash...
"The flotilla of double-hulled sailing canoes that left the Hawaiian Islands more than a week ago has encountered masses of rubbish floating in the northeastern Pacific. Capt. Johnathan Smith, aboard the Fijian canoe Uto Ni Yalo, said they have been passing through so much rubbish that it's difficult to keep a list of it in the log. "That's how much rubbish is out here," Smith wrote on the vessel's blog. "It is shocking here in the North Pacific." ... http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/2..._voyagers.html
Wonder if we could actually clean it up?
Of course we'd then be bringing it to land.
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