Posted on 05/13/2019 5:39:43 PM PDT by fruser1
A record-setting dive into the world's deepest and most mysterious underwater trench proves that even the most remote places on Earth aren't immune to plastic waste.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
"95% of the trash in the ocean comes from 5 rivers... None of these rivers flow out of a Western country."
The USofA is roughly 7000 miles east of china.
Not guilty
Product placement in photographs is very important.
The only thing that can save us at that point is a drastic reduction in population from war, famine, or disease. Nature has a way of resetting itself if need be. I think a major reset is coming one way or the other.
Look out friend you have swallowed some Leftist propaganda!
The world’s population may have doubled in the last 100 years but the worlds food supply has also phenomenally increased while (in the USA) used less total acreage.
And there is no reason to believe that this rise in farming efficiency will not continue.
And if the trend toward the expansion of economic freedom in the world continues the decline in birthrates will follow. Wealth is a huge determining factor in lowering birthrates. High birthrates have a high correlation to poverty.
Loved your story. :)
“Dang, I only made in to 1200’ back in ‘82 so, no medal.”
That’s one heck of a dive. What was the mission?
Well, you should have got one.
Here’s my recommendation.....
While in a rare moment of sobriety, Captain7seas hit the water like a sheet of plywood and dove down 1200 feet in 1982. For gallantry and interpridity above and beyond the call of duty, and for having lungs the size of Texas, I hereby recommend him for the Free Republic Toilet Swirlie Medal With Plunger Device.
If you wear this medal to Red Lobster, they’ll give you free salt on your fries.
Looks like an Al Gore Carbon Credit.
Imagine you are a little fish, 7 miles beneath the sea, and you see an alien suited with lights and a strange ship. Would any of the other fish believe what you claim you saw?
At over 1000 atmospheres, I doubt it would remain legible and likely never drop over a thousand feet. Currents would keep it higher up.
Perhaps the photo was taken closer to several hundred feet down.
I read somewhere that if you dropped a solid steel ball off a ship above the Marianas Trench, it would take an hour and five minutes to reach the bottom. I don’t know how true that is, but it’s a cool thought.
Dump our rubbish down the gullet of an active volcano - geothermal waste disposal.
Thank you so much for the award. I will wear it with pride to my vasectomy. If I am going to be impotent, I want to look impotent.
Hey its water retention. lol.
i dont... I travel to asia often and see it first hand. makes me sick. anyone who knows me here knows I’m no follower of fashion but when I do see pics and vids of whales washed up dead on a beach full of plastic, it truly is unsettling to me. Even though 90+ % of the plastic pollution comes from the 3rd world, seeing the garbage road side on my daily commutes around this shit hole Detroit, states the world has a serious problem with scum bags who dont care. I’d stand with the libs if there was a serious push to ban consumption plastics and go back to paper... in a heart beat...
reading your post and then scrolling to the next made me LOL... timely!!
“What was the mission?”
Prove to the Norwegian govt. that we could repair their pipeline with hyperbaric welding at that depth. They required we prove it before they allowed it to be installed across the Norwegian Trench in the North Sea.
As a point of interest. it took almost a month. Four days of compression to 1200’. Four days on bottom and then fourteen days of decompression.
Check out “Last Breath” just came out on Netflix. It gives a pretty good look at what Saturation divers do. Although usually not so dramatic.
Sign on take-out window:
*Skip the straw - Save an ocean.* Cracked me up.
Now mind you, this was in Derby, Vermont about as far from an ocean as you can get [unless you are in Kansas.
Before I read the text!! I just seen the picture!
Interesting fact. Thank you.
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