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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ATLANTIC TRASH PATCH : NOT AS BIG AS THE ONE IN THE PACIFIC BUT AS TRAGIC

ATLAS OBSURA : ATLANTIC GARBAGE PATCH

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As four major currents in the North Atlantic Ocean between Virginia and Cuba push rubbish through the sea, it gets absorbed into a giant marine trash island we now call the North Atlantic Garbage Patch. ...

Using this data, scientists estimate that the North Atlantic Garbage Patch is hundreds of kilometers in size and has a density of 200,000 pieces of trash per square kilometer in some places. Despite its enormous size and density, the patch is, more often than not, invisible to the naked eye and even satellite imaging. The photodegradable plastic that makes up the vast majority of the mass shrinks to smaller than .01 of an inch and is pushed under the surface of the water by deep waves. Unfortunately, this attribute makes it all the more likely that the plastic - and all of its pollutants - will be swallowed by aquatic creatures.

THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH ? WHERE IS IT? WHAT IS IT? (THE SIZE OF TEXAS!)

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EDU : GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. Marine debris is litter that ends up in oceans, seas, and other large bodies of water.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as the Pacific trash vortex, spans waters from the West Coast of North America to Japan. The patch is actually comprised of the Western Garbage Patch, located near Japan, and the Eastern Garbage Patch, located between the U.S. states of Hawai'i and California.

These areas of spinning debris are linked together by the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone, located a few hundred kilometers north of Hawai'i. This convergence zone is where warm water from the South Pacific meets up with cooler water from the Arctic. The zone acts like a highway that moves debris from one patch to another....

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CAN FIREFIGHTERS USE OCEAN SALT WATER TO FIGHT THE CALIFORNIA FIRES?

The answer is that they do so, but in desperation, because the salt water is corrosive to equipment and the soil in which the salt water has been dumped is not friendly to plant life.  Some areas where ocean water has been dumped to put out a fire remain barren of plant life for years.  When urban sources for water are used up, fire fighters will use ocean water. 

-Siren

WHAT CHEMICALS MAKE UP SALT WATER IN OUR OCEANS ?

ARE YOU REALLY GOOD WITH CHEMISTRY? Then Link to this WATER ENCYLOPEDIA SITE NOW and take a look!