Gordon wrote:
Various eco groups have described the "Great Garbage Patch" in the
Pacific ocean. It has been described as twice the size of the
continental US located between Hawaii and Japan, or bigger than the
state of Texas located between California and Hawaii, or it is located
in the North Pacific. It consists of millions of tons of garbage
floating everywhere.
At the Seattle boat show was a raft made of plastic jugs and held
together with old fishing nets and with an old airplane fuselage as a
cabin. Supposedly, they sailed this raft to Hawaii and documented all
the garbage out there.
Does anybody believe this crap????

Can anyone be so naive as to think its not true???

Can anybody find an actual cruiser that has been through this garbage
patch?

For decades cruisers have talked about mid-ocean trash, but this is
actually something different.

Why is it only the Pacific Ocean?

Its been seen in the Atlantic for 40 years, but the most recent studies
have been in the Pacific.

Why can't they even agree on the location and size?

Oh My! Disagreements on the details!!! That proves its just a hoax!

Seems to me Al Gore has had another wet dream !

I find it amusing that although there is almost complete agreement
amongst scientists on the major points of Global Climate Change, there
are those that think its really a hoax.

BTW, you can now book passage on a Northwest Passage cruise.

Gordon

One problem with the "garbage patch" is that that it is not an island,
as sometimes described. The plastic is well shredded so its closer in
size to plankton. The problem though is that the mass of plastic is 6
times that of the plankton.