Ocean Junk : A Sad Litany of the Prosaic and the Strange

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Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care

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For years along the Cornish coast of Britain, Atlantic Ocean currents have carried thousands of Lego pieces onto the beaches. In Kenya, cheap flip-flop sandals are churned relentlessly in the Indian Ocean surf, until finally being spit out onto the sand.

So, there was little surprise among oceanographers when part of a jet’s wing, suspected wreckage from the vanished Boeing 777, was found two weeks ago along the shores of Reunion, a French island off the African coast…

Read Full Article, CBS news

How a Piece of a Boeing 777 Drifted 2,300 Miles; National Geographic (08-01-2015)
The discovery of an airplane wing section on a remote Indian Ocean island some 2,300 miles west of where investigators think Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crashed off Australia comes as no surprise to scientists and mariners familiar with those seas…

“When The Mermaids Cry: The Great Plastic Tide,” Coastal Care

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