it's here.

[MrE_Powers]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...2/111215-tsunami-debris-field-travel-science/

 

[mp3deviant721]

It's been a couple of days, found anything cool yet?

 

[gwaii]

It's been a couple of days, found anything cool yet?

nothing cool.

there's a bunch of assorted small debris,like dish soap bottles and other plastic floaty stuff.there are also lots of shoes washing up-i've been afraid of finding feet in them,but none so far.

there was a bit of a storm last night,i might go out and see what got blown in with it.

 

[straycat]

Don't drink it, Dude!!! You know that expression?? 'Don't dring the water...fish f*** in it'....lol


Sell it on Ebay. I bet you get some bucks for that!!!

 

[Mark_88]

Break out the Geiger counter.

Very true...be careful what you grab onto...and where you store it...not sure what the half life is of nuke plant effluent, but it's probably fairly short...like a few decades (relatively, compared to nuclear weapon fallout)...

You would have thought that somebody would have run a ship through the pile to break it up and help it sink.

That would only work for about an hour with any kind of success...once it spreads out it would take several fleets of boats years to sink every floating object...

Let me know if you find any Japanese blow up dolls...

 

[straycat]

hope you don't find any people.

Ehhhhhhweeee. It is like an old folk song...'Even the Joran River has bodies a'floating'......

 

[CHKNFKR]

I'm amazed customs isn't all over the beach there stopping people from collecting stuff. Oh wait, its not a US beach. Only the US government would make it illegal to pick up trash....

 

[Mac]

Bunch of info on Google about it, sounds like it's going to be a couple of years.
Dave of the Nord
"The flotsam now arriving in B.C. heralds a much larger cluster of debris on its way. Russian sailors have reported spotting a giant floating cluster of material, estimated to be twice the size of Texas, about 2,700 kilometres east of Hawaii. The items include a fishing boat marked "Fukushima."



Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20111216/japan-earthquake-debris-tofino-111216/#ixzz1h12Xkr78

 

[gwaii]

yah,it's supposed to make a pretty big mess of our beaches in the next few years.the north-east part of the island has a nearly pristene sandy beach over 100km long,and the rockier shoreline of the west and southern sections,as well as the many inlets are many times that.

we get a bit of stuff floating up every now and then,mainly old crab traps and fishing floats as well as some plastic garbage,but we've not had an onslought of debris the scale of what this could turn out to be.

 

[gwaii]

there was nothing new to find on the beach today...the tides weren't too high last night(high tides with a storm leave stuff at the high mark,lower tides tend to allow stuff to be washed back into the surf)

this is how i can tell how high the tides are-the line of seaweed marks the upper limit.high tides and a storm surge are when scallops and clams wash up on the beach too.this should be occurring near the end of the week.

this rock may look familliar to some-it's the one with the ranger parked on it in the beach photo.

you can just make out the hill in the distance-this stretch of beach goes about the same distance behind me,and about that much further past that hill....before turning the corner at the north east tip of the island and carrying on much further yet.



just for giggles,i videoed the road out from the beach to the road.it's only two minutes long,but it took an hour to load it to photobucket

 

[GoodOld85BlueBalls]

You need to open the bottle to let the genie out Dude.

 

[Mark_88]

Yeah, dude, she could grant you three wishes or give you bj's for ever...

On the other hand...it could be the radioactive genie that will give you cancer or make your teeth and hair fall out and so you look like me...lol

 

[robertc1024]

I'd take the debris vs. oil. Back in '79 the IXTOC well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico. The best selling item at the beach was alcohol laden paper toweletts (sp?) to wipe the tar balls off of you. We've still got tar balls washing up on our beaches.

 

[gwaii]

I'd take the debris vs. oil. Back in '79 the IXTOC well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico. The best selling item at the beach was alcohol laden paper toweletts (sp?) to wipe the tar balls off of you. We've still got tar balls washing up on our beaches.

ya,oil ain't fun on the beaches.we're in a battle right now fighting the plan to ship oil from the north coast(down a very narrow and treacherous inlet that's very succeptible to storm action)on tanker routes that surround our islands,in order to send it to china.

somehow,allowing this area to be at risk to fuel china dosen't sit too well with the local population.

 

[gwaii]

or make your teeth and hair fall out and so you look like me...lol

too late.


maybe it'll make some of it grow back