Hmmmm. Not a word about the chemical munitions
dumped in the Atlantic after both world wars...
“The Horror of Party Beach” (1964)
quick google tells you that there are 187 quintillion gallons of water in the Pacific.
This is dumping about 613025 gallons of chemicals.
There’s a math of parts per million to go into, but it doesn’t take a genius to recognize that the amount contemplated is negligible amount.
Cyanides are common metabolic products of bacteria and plants. This whole thing is a big nothingburger.
The article doesn’t mention exactly how deep the munitions are. Oahu is surrounded by the Kaua’i Deep to the north, the O’ahu Deep to the west, and the Lana’i Deep to the south. They’re all at least 3 miles deep.
There’s little mixing of such deep waters. The munitions are far below the thermocline.
There is so much toxic crap buried in our country and off of our shores that we may never find it all. That’s just the way government did things during WWII and Cold War.
Undersea volcanic vents spew hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen cyanide, and assorted other nasty things... yet there’s life around them, even life dependent on chemicals that would kill people...
We used to dispose of 20mm overboard, not such a good idea, but cyanide among other things? Isn’t this just wonderful?
At least when Claudius, Emperor of Rome dumped his grandmother’s chest of poisons (Poison is Queen) into the ocean, shortly after thousands of dead fish floated to the surface. Claudius ordered that anyone eating the fish were to be put to death.- Claudius the God by Graves.
Meanwhile, Hawaii is about to ban sunscreen because of bad science saying it hurts coral.
Didn’t seem to bother or stop the Japanese in Dec of ‘41
An old acquaintance often said:
“The solution to pollution is dilution”
You are actually quoting the most anti-Military / anti-USA blog in Hawaii as some authority on such information here ? Malu Aina ? Are you kidding me ? Do you know who Jim Albertini is? And what he has always done , first to throw every possible monkey wrench at the US military ops in Hawaii , and now an outright proponent of Hawaii secession ?
These links should NEVER appear on FR .
What made you think about linking to this stupid article from 8 years ago?