How do these petrochemicals impact a cetacean?
First off, between Phuket's lack of awareness regarding marine rubbish;
Stop at your neighborhood gas station, put a few drops of petrol in your palm, and clear your sinus cavities with a healthy snort of high octane, leaded of course. (Kids - don't really do this.) As you go catatonic, imagine how marine mammals must feel once they swim into a petrol or diesel slick - and are lost
Tourist brochures won't tell you, but our oceans are polluted with both solid and petrochemical scum and it's getting worse.
Today, there are at least three mid-ocean slicks hundreds of miles long, and as deep as 300 meters - the World's biggest garbage dumps, all human created.
As we can see above (and in a previous post on this blog) - a main villain in all of this is the plastic bag (eg petrochemicals). So the next time the staff behind the counter hands you a plastic bag please think about the photographs and whether you NEED that bag.
See you on the water, Ling Yai (Thai for 'Big Monkey') AKA John Caveman Gray.
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