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2011-10-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Tons of tsunami debris moving toward Hawaii

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Posted by tu3031 2011-10-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The creepiest things are the human feet in floating shoes....

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-25 01:03|| 2011-10-25 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder why nobody has ever come up with a flotsam harvester? A ship somewhat like a kelp harvester, but designed to methodically reduce large amounts of naval hazard flotsam.

I gather it wouldn't have worked with the great "plastic island" in the ocean, as most of that plastic was just a fraction of an inch in size. But for something like this Japanese tsunami flotsam, it would be a heck of a lot cheaper to police it up at sea than when it lands on beaches.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-10-25 11:06|| 2011-10-25 11:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Cheaper? I kind of doubt that - the fuel & labor costs to get a ship out & back to the garbage patch must be very high. Some of the floating debris will rot or sink before it can make landfall.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-25 11:36|| 2011-10-25 11:36|| Front Page Top

#4 A TV and a refrigerator are still floating after 2000 miles?!

You'd think they'd be embryonic coral reefs by now.

Posted by Barbara 2011-10-25 14:07|| 2011-10-25 14:07|| Front Page Top

#5 This reminds me of the Pacific's famous garbage patch. A lot of talk, but it seems that every picture turns out to be of some garbage dumped somewhere else.

I suspect the Russian ship dumped a lot of garbage and were spotted near the location and came up with cover story.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-10-25 21:59|| 2011-10-25 21:59|| Front Page Top

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