Beachcombing for dead people's personal posssesions is not something I want to do.
20 Million Tons of Debris Heading Our Way
by designs 25 Replies latest social current
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designs
These objects will be everything from boats and buses and auto parts to building materials and plastics, try an imagine a city coming apart and floating across the Ocean and you will have an idea of what's out there moving our way. It all needs to be gathered and seperated and disposed of and some will be slightly radioactive.
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Broken Promises
There will probably be some dead bodies too.
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designs
The Debris Zone has spred to several thousand square miles and is becoming part of the Ocean's eco-system. A sizable portion of the Debris will be trapped in the North Pacific Gyre which already has a collection of Plastics bigger than the State of Texas and 50-100' deep. Marine life from algae, plants, shellfish, fish, mammals like Whales and Dolphin alike will be consuming the debris from Fukushima.
We really don't have the technology to cleanup this type of disaster at sea. The Sea of Plastic in the North Pacific Gyre has grown from a problem the size of Rhode Island ten years ago to bigger than 270,000 square miles.
This is a international problem that Engineers and Biologists and the resources of Nations can address if we can keep the issue before the political system and the publics consciousness. You will not be told ahead of time that your diet from the Ocean contains chemicals found in Plastics and Building materials or small amounts of radioactivity it will come after as small health issues raise alarms.
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As an enticement to volunteer for Beach Cleanup Duty a Japanese fisherman netted a bag containing $150,000, washed out to sea from the Fukushima disaster. Safes have also been seen floating in the ocean.
Just months away till they reach our shores...
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Japanese authorities have estimated that it will take 30 years before the Fukushima nuclear plant can be closed. The authorities have set up a 12 mile 'Exclusion zone' around the plant. It is still leaking. Radiation 'Hot Spots' have been detected in Tokyo 238km away.
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Small but rising amounts of radiation are showing up in the food chain across the USA. UC Berkeley conducted tests on crops such as Spinach, Strawberrys, Cilantro, Topsoil, Grass and found traces of Cesium 134 and 137 and Strontium 89, measured in Berequeral per kilogram.
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News came from Washington State that the first debris from Japan's earthquake disaster reached their Beaches, this is 6 months ahead of when they thought the debris would travel the 4500 miles across the Pacific. The main debris zone will cover Alaska to North Baja Mexico. Volunteers are needed but because the debris is considered Hazardous material local authorities such as Coastal Commissions should be notified. Among the debris will be remains of human body parts.
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Kick off the New Year with a good ol Beach cleanup project. Come on down to San Onofre Beach Trail 1, look for the old guy that looks like Moses
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AnnOMaly
Eww. Body parts? Wouldn't the gulls and sharks have devoured them by now?