OCEAN PLASTIC CLEAN UP! OCEAN GYRES : IT'S NOT JUST THE PACIFIC : HERE IS A PROPOSED PROJECT

OCEAN PLASTIC CLEAN UP - OCEAN GYRES IN ALL OCEANS  

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There are 5 swirling ocean garbage patches called gyres. Garbage patches generally accumulate far from any country’s coastline, and it is nearly impossible to track the origin of marine debris. The tiny plastic particles that make up most of the patches are also very difficult and expensive to detect and remove.

1. NORTH ATLANTIC GYRE 

2. SOUTH ATLANTIC GYRE 

3. INDIAN OCEAN GYRE 

4. NORTH PACIFIC GYRE 

5. SOUTH PACIFIC GYRE 

To date no nation has accepted responsibility for cleaning up the ocean’s garbage patches to the extent that they will agree to fund ocean cleaning up operations. Such Agreement could allow a commercial approach to venture capitalists. .....

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GRAVITY HOLE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN?

THE WEEK : ENVIRONMENT: INDIAN OCEAN GRAVITY HOLE 

Excerpt:  The Earth s basically a lumpy potato and not a sphere, study co-author Attreyeee Ghosh told CNN. Therefore, gravity is distributed unevenly around the planet.  "If you pour water on the surface of the Earth, the level that the water takes is called a geoid." determined by density differences under the surface o the Earth.  The "gravity hole" in the Indian Ocean is the "biggest low" in the geoid, Ghosh continued.

(Will the gravity hole disappear?"

THE INDIAN OCEAN DOESN'T HAVE MUCH OF A GARBAGE PATCH - WHY NOT?

HAKAI MAGAZINE : INDIAN OCEAN - DISAPPEARING GARBAGE PATCH by Kimberly Riskas

EXCERPTS:  According to a new study led by Mirjam van der Mheen, a doctoral candidate at the University of Western Australia, the Indian Ocean's unique geography, ocean currents, and atmospheric conditions actually appear to be preventing waste from piling up in a garbage patch.  ...  Since they couldn't track individual pie es of plastic, the team used the next best thing: GPS date from more than 22,000 buoys that have drifted around the oceans since 1979. Running the data through computer simulations provided a picture of how floating objects are pushed around by currents and wind.

THE LATEST ON THE SOMALIA PIRATES OPERATING IN THE INDIAN OCEAN!

FROM AUSTRALIAN NEWS

PiracyToday,

03. November 2010,

"At least 30 foreign vessels plus one barge are kept in Somali hands against the will of their owners, while at least 551 hostages or captives - including an elderly British yachting couple and the 5 new hostages from Somaliland - suffer to be released."

NAME THE FOUR OCEANS....

THE OCEANS OF THE WORLD are

the Arctic Ocean
the Atlantic Ocean
the Indian Ocean
the Pacific Ocean