Grew up in Jersey, 30 miles from the shore
With real whitecaps, we rode ‘m rough and high
‘Til the 80s; needles & trash littered the beach
NYC hospital waste floated on those waves
Took the fun, joy and love out of the water
An ocean we thought was too big & too deep (C) asb
It is so sad to think what the people in the world have done to the oceans. There are few, I think, that haven’t played some part to destroying what was created for us.
Thanks for such a thought provoking SSS.
You are welcome. What happened then was a wake up call. they have since found other solutions. But we live in a throw away world. Again, thankfully, many of the throw aways today are recyclable.
It is tragic the amount of pollution and trash that plagues our oceans. They are not magical self renewing resources.
What happened then was a wake up call. they have since found other solutions. But we live in a throw away world. Again, thankfully, many of the throw aways today are recyclable. Thanks for reading and commenting.
Yeah, they dumped the hospital waste 25 miles out at the shelf. One time they didn’t go the distance and it washed up. Syringes in the sand. Was awful.
And I loved the ocean as a kid. Our waves were big compared to the South’s.
The damage humanity is doing to the ocean and the creatures that call in home is dreadful. A point well made in your six.
Thanks.
somehow, the worst thing about that process, i.e. the garbage barges, is that somehow they hoped to make it look like they were taking it away. They (the barges) of course, had bottoms that would open when they reached ‘away’.
Off the continental shelf, where the water was so deep it could hide the trash and debris
not
You’re right, i think. someone made a shortcut and got caught. The tide brought it in. It brought the problem to the public attention.
it’s never ending this abuse of the ocean. so sad.
Sad it is.
That waste can spoil the ocean.
Another solution is needed for all this waste we create.
I have lived by the sea for forty years now – I have realised that not all but much of the trash on the beach is washed up from boats. Grrr!
It’s sad.
We think the ocean (and whole planet) can take whatever we dish out to it, but it cannot. Well said!
thanks.
Tragic waste of a true treasure. Well done Six.
thanks.
Welcome 🙂
Do you think the powers that be really thought there was no downside to dumping trash in the ocean, or do you think they just didn’t care?
i think someone hired to dump cut his distance short not knowing the tide would bring the trash into the coastline.
Well executed six. This tells it like it is.
thanks. someone needs to come up with a better disposal plan.
Agreed!