OCEAN GARBAGE KILLING WHALES ? PROBABLY SO !

"Grisly examples abound. In 2008, two sperm whales stranded on the California coast were found to have a huge amount -- 205 kilos (450 pounds) in one alone -- of fish nets and other synthetic debris in their guts. One of the 50-foot (15-metre) animals had a ruptured stomach, and the other, half-starved, had a large plug of wadded plastic blocking its digestive tract.
Seven male sperm whales stranded on the Adriatic coast of southern Italy in 2009 were stuffed with half-digested squids beaks, fishing hooks, ropes and plastic objects."

Marlowe Hood, reporter

ATLANTIC OCEAN ALSO HAS SEA OF PLASTIC

BAD NEWS - THERE IS ALSO A SEA OF PLASTIC IN THE ATLANTIC. Link to the story now from CBS news...

"Researchers are warning of a new blight on the ocean: a swirl of confetti-like plastic debris stretching over thousands of square miles in a remote expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. The floating garbage - hard to spot from the surface and spun together by a vortex of currents - was documented by two groups of scientists who trawled the sea between scenic Bermuda and Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores islands."

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FIVE YEARS THE BIG WAVES WERE JUST RIGHT!

Kelly Slater surfs in the second heat at the Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau big wave surf contest on the North Shore at Waimea Bay, Hawaii Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Slater scored a 98 out of 100 points on the wave. Here's the slide show!

(AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Michael Goulding)