David de Rothschild did wonders creating plastic awareness with Plastiki
- the time has come.
We should salute deRothschild, but he's just a guy from a big family with the money to hire somebody to build a ship from plastic bottles - that float anyway. Just go to the Boat Lagoon in Phuket to find dozens of salty dogs who sailed the Pacific to reach Phuket - it's a common adventure in these days of weather satellites.
A forgettable marine biologist is now taking credit for "discovering” the Mid-Pacific Rubbish Gyre when he sailed through it in 2000. Even National Geographic sucked it up (the story NOT the rubbish). I’ve been lobbying foundations for decades to hire the Japanese whaling fleet to clean up marine rubbish. Steady work if they agree to stop the Genocide.
Dr. Gene. H. Balazs makes a lifetime study of the Hawaiian green sea turtles. In the mid-70's Balazs was teaching Aloha land that a plastic bag looks just like the turtle's jellyfish prey. French Frigate Shoals became the battleground of the 80's after my friend Joe Adams delivered some boats to the NOAA station on what is basically an overgrown reef.
Not only were sea turtles gobbling plastic bags, they were losing fins to nets and tightly wound plastic.
When another friend Sharon Sutter volunteered to clean-up the shoals she discovered 40% of all albatross had Chinese cigarette lighters in their guts!!?? Follow-up research show the Chinese factory and market were just below the headwaters of the Yangtze River. The primary market for the lighters were these rice farmers thousands of kilometers inland. When the rice farmers threw away expended lighters, the river took them to the sea, where currents took them to the Shoals.
Part 2 soon.
See you on the water (with a full bag of rubbish),
Ling Yai (Thai for 'Big Monkey') AKA John Caveman Gray
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