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From: Rosalie B. (no email)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2006 - 16:09:34 EDT
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 15:28:58 -0400, you wrote:
>It's basic physics, people. Either it floats or it sinks. If a container
>or log happens to be exactly neutral, then it will bob up and down with the
>currents, but there's not much that's exactly neutral, including the
>"thousands of containers" that are lost overboard every year. As someone
>already observed, they sink. If they didn't sink, they'd wash ashore, and
>you've never heard of one washing ashore, have you? Be honest!
Yes I have heard of one washing ashore - or actually the cargo washed
ashore - it was tennis shoes
<!If you didn't land a pair of Nikes in 1990, when 80,000 Nikes
tumbled into the Pacific Ocean, don't despair. Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer
says beachcombers may still find good-as-new1999 Nike Cross Trainers
along shores of Washington & Oregon & Puget Sound beaches. Some Nikes
drifted into the Strait of Juan de Fuca in recent years. Only trouble
is, beachcombers will have to find the mates, because Nike didn't tie
the laces together.
<!
<!The sneakers were lost at sea when container M/V P&O Nedlloyd
Auckland encountered a hurricane mid-Pacific. Heavy rolling threw a
dozen 40ft. containers overboard, two of which laden with Nike shoes.
http://www.veromarine.co.nz/dirvz/marine/marine.nsf/Content/PhotoFeature0008
<!*The cargo was large rolls of paper, and – as the containers split
open, and the contents floated – it threatened the coastline of New
Zealand's beautiful Bay of Islands.
<!*
<!*In July 2000, The MISC vessel "Bunga Kenari" loaded three
containers of kraft paper in Tauranga. The cargo was heavy – the 90
cubic metres of kraft paper 44 rolls weighed close to 75 tons. Why
such a heavy load was on deck and high on the vessel remains to be
disclosed by the shipping company, but in stormy weather – not unusual
in New Zealand's winter – the containers, along with three others,
were spilled from the vessel. No doubt on impact with the sea, the
containers broke open. As is the practice, reels are not secured (tied
down, dunnaged, tommed or otherwise) within containers: the reels are
firmly packed with a minimum of void spaces. Because of this tight
packing, there is no room for movement of the cargo within the
container (for example, in a heavy train shunt). However – without the
retaining walls and door of the container, the cargo floated free. Of
the 44 reels, 27 ended up on the beaches of the Bay of Islands.
>PORT ARANSAS - Coast Guard officials are testing some suspicious containers that continue to wash up on area beaches. Officials aren't sure where they're coming from, but they believe they're drifting in as a result of the hurricanes....At least 10 chemical drums have been found on beaches stretching from Padre Island to Port Aransas.
And here are some that ended up in Alaska
<!*29,000 Chinese plastic bath toys during their voyage from Hong Kong
to Tacoma, Washington. In a severe storm on January 10, 1992, twelve
containers were washed overboard. One of them tore open, and thousands
of blue plastic turtles, yellow plastic duckies, red plastic beavers,
and green plastic frogs began their great adventure - fortunately
these animals are all competent swimmers.
<!*
<!*Ten months later, the first waves of plastic toys hit the beaches
of Sitka, Alaska. Advertisements in newspapers and letters to
lighthouse keepers brought in reports of landings, all of them on the
Alaskan coast. This time, the higher-floating plastic toys were more
affected by the wind than the low-floating Nikes, and their main
trajectory took them north, out of the gyre circulation. Those that
did not reach shore quickly were swept northeast, and by the winter of
1993-94, the survivors would have been frozen into sea ice in the
Bering Sea. Some may now be heading back into the North Pacific,
others may be on their way round the Arctic Ocean, eastward along the
north coast of Siberia, heading for the North Atlantic.
http://team.abnamro.com/web/show/id=69681
>The world’s oceans are filled with an endless variety of objects that pose a serious threat to ultra light boats like the ABN AMRO. As these are some of the world’s fastest boats, running through them at speeds of around 40 to 50 km/hr can make the world’s oceans one big obstacle course during the Volvo Ocean Race.
>Last year, during training, crew ONE hit what must have been a container and significantly damaged the hull whilst sailing from Europe to the United States.
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