lifeguard tower 26 - Ocean Park, Santa Monica CA
trash collected for 20 minutes
1.5 pounds
765.5 pounds total
COMMUNITY COUNT DAY 116 - HEATHER AND JON
trash collected for 20 minutes
2 pounds
709.5 pounds total
THE DAILY OCEAN COMBINED TOTAL -
1473.5 POUNDS OF TRASH OFF OF BEACHES AROUND THE WORLD
One of the first sights we see is a nondescript piece of feather-lite, clear plastic poking out of the sand. This is a typical discovery. I wish that it wasn't.
fr left to right: Jon, Heather and Whitney
Whitney wanted us to come out onto the beach a little earlier than I normally do so that she could shoot some footage for a CBS interview she is putting together as part of their "American Spirit" series. I am excited to be part of this! Thank you to Heather and Jon for coming out to be interviewed. This segment will most likely air while we are away on our 5 Gyres research expedition. If you watch CBS Nightly News, keep an eye out for it on a Wed. or Friday night edition, and let me know how it was!
Plastic bag rose origami that I found this way.
We are already in Chile for the start of our 10 weeks away. Most of that time will be on the crew of a 5 Gyres Institute research expedition. You can join one too! Find out how and come aboard! I know that they have openings for the Cook Islands to Tahiti this summer that goes out for about a week.
As soon as we sat down for a coffee in the Santiago Airport yesterday, we saw the footage of the earthquake in Japan on the nearest TV. Coastal Chile was on a tsunami warning, but all is well as far as we know. We are in Valdivia, which is a little farther inland in Southern Chile. My heart goes out to all of the families who may have a loved one missing at the moment, and to all of the Japanese people who were most likely very scared as it was happening.
Did u also see footage of what's been happening at Redondo Beach harbor? The sardines that have all harbored there because of the heavy winds.. Thousands of those sardines are dead due to lack of oxygen.. they say something spooked them where one sardine had gone into the harbor for refuge and soon all these schools of sardines followed... What a clean up that has to be done... I also read an article in the Times where they have proven that most of the fish caught have ingested plastic.Which means the fish we ingest may be passing it on to us...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment! I hadn't read that many details about the sardines that came into Redondo. SO vert strange!! I also had not heard that there was evidence of them eating plastic. BUT I can imagine that is true. Not good at all....
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