Comments on: Welcome to SEAPLEX! http://seaplexscience.com/2009/07/27/welcome-to-seaplex/ Seeking the Science of the Garbage Patch Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:21:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ed Holman http://seaplexscience.com/2009/07/27/welcome-to-seaplex/#comment-33 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:33:10 +0000 http://seaplex.wordpress.com/?p=13#comment-33 What you’re doing is great! Wish I could join you. Good luck and may the winds remain at your back.

]]> By: Cdin http://seaplexscience.com/2009/07/27/welcome-to-seaplex/#comment-18 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:33:29 +0000 http://seaplex.wordpress.com/?p=13#comment-18 Thank gosh you’re doing this. Thank GOSH.

If you could come up with a way to have this cleaned up (one commenter on my blog came up with profit percentages of collecting, recycling and reselling plastic… feasible?) that would be… awesome.

The very idea of a giant sewage collection dump in the Pacific is painful to imagine. And, the idea of sea life dying slowly from ingestion is also painful… in more ways than one…

Thank you for embarking upon this voyage. Can’t WAIT to hear ALL the results. : )

We have only this one world… round… so that what we do comes back upon us, or at least swirls monstrous and unmitigated in the Pacific… sigh.

PS: I love this blog and what you’re writing!

]]> By: Grieg Steward http://seaplexscience.com/2009/07/27/welcome-to-seaplex/#comment-4 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:14:12 +0000 http://seaplex.wordpress.com/?p=13#comment-4 A similar expedition sailed last year from Hawaii through the plastic patch to California. You might find some information that is useful and of interest to you on that project’s web pages at

http://cmore.soest.hawaii.edu/cruises/super/

Good luck! I hope the weather holds up so you can get out as far as you’d like.

]]> By: Maureen Martinek http://seaplexscience.com/2009/07/27/welcome-to-seaplex/#comment-3 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:39:35 +0000 http://seaplex.wordpress.com/?p=13#comment-3 Good Luck to you all. The first time I heard about the giant trash gathering in the Pacific was just this year!!!! I’m 58 and listen to news that affects our environment. I am horrified and saddened. I also see that some recent ‘know it alls’ have decided THEY know what is really in the ocean.

Good luck to you all. I hope that you can develop a process to rid the Pacific Ocean of all the trash. I can usually come up with a few solutions, even if they are off the wall, but this stumped me. I think because WE have allowed the problem to become so large. Is anyone screaming about it yet?

I’ll be watching for your blogs. Once again, Good luck.

Sincerely,

Maureen Martinek
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