Sailing Across the Pacific - Day 19: Trash

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Uploaded by on Jun 3, 2009

There is a tremendous amount of trash in the water in the mid-North Pacific around Longitude 160 West, Latitude 38 North. To find out more go to http://www.youtube.com/user/annarubiecita

Journey along with the crew of S/V Lealea as we sail from Honolulu to Neah Bay, WA in an Albin Vega 27. To view the entire "Sailing Across the Pacific" series from 2007 visit our channel and click the "Sea Log" playlist. For our trip down the West Coast of California see our "Sailing the Pacific Coast" series and our most recent passage "Sailing Back to Hawaii" is now complete.
More at http://cruisinglealea.com

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  • nice job

  • Have you ever been to Panama City, Panama? I swear most of the floats-om and flots-om must end up on their shore.

  • A lot of it comes from land I think. Spend some time at a shoreline park and watch the plastic bags, styrofoam cooler lids etc. blow away out to sea. Of course ships dump trash overboard in international waters too. We were careful to limit plastic wrapping and containers aboard and carried them to shore for disposal.

  • That's a real shame. If people insist on dumping waste at sea, at least tie something heavy to it so it doesn't litter the pristine surface.

  • There's a HUGE patch of junk in the pacific. You likely only seen a small bit of it. The worse part is, no plans to clean it up and no plans to try to prevent it.

  • You look tired in this one Chuck... understandibly! :)

    Chris

  • Trash in middle of the ocean. That IS depressing. I read "Adrift" many years ago and he talked about worrying about his life raft getting tangled up in the fishing line and junk floating around. Just sad.

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