thunder wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:04:10 -0700, 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 anybody find an actual cruiser that has been through this garbage
patch?
Why is it only the Pacific Ocean?
Why can't they even agree on the location and size? Seems to me Al
Gore has had another wet dream ! Gordon

It's been well documented. You can start he

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_P..._Garbage_Patch

Ah, now I get it. A great pacific garbage patch that is invisible to
satellite photography because the pieces of garbage are very very small,
almost invisible to the eye and are suspended at or under the surface of
the ocean!!!!!!!!!
That rates right along with "we have to get rid of creosoted pilings
because they are poisonous to the sea life". Look at an old piling
sometime and note the "dead" sealife growing on it.
Gordon