Rubbish

seafarer · 02-06-08, 08:18 AM

When I still did deep-sea marine biology and ALVIN cruises, one of the most common things seen on the bottom of the ocean (in 1500-4000m depth) was aluminum soda cans, especially coke cans. Most ocean going commercial ships still simply toss all their rubbish over the side, so it has to collect somewhere. Not to mention the renderings of massive drift nets that seem to foul the north Pacific everywhere (I was amazed how often we used to encounter them - they seemed everywhere).

That, and a lot of Pacific rim countries still use barges to dump much of their land based rubbish at sea.

02-06-08, 08:18 AM	#5
seafarer Commodore Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 622 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	When I still did deep-sea marine biology and ALVIN cruises, one of the most common things seen on the bottom of the ocean (in 1500-4000m depth) was aluminum soda cans, especially coke cans. Most ocean going commercial ships still simply toss all their rubbish over the side, so it has to collect somewhere. Not to mention the renderings of massive drift nets that seem to foul the north Pacific everywhere (I was amazed how often we used to encounter them - they seemed everywhere). That, and a lot of Pacific rim countries still use barges to dump much of their land based rubbish at sea. __________________ My Father's ship, HMCS Waskesiu (K330), sank U257 on 02/24/1944 running SHIII-1.4 with GWX2.1 and SHIV-1.5 with TMO/RSRDC/PE3.3 under MS Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP1 ACER AMD Athlon 64x2 4800+, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 400GB SATA HD Antec TruePower Trio 650watt PSU BFG GeForce 8800GT/OC 512MB VRAM, Samsung 216BW widescreen (1680x1050) LCD