well.. i think it’s because the plastic is breaking into tiny bits of plastic “snow” circulating the oceans worldwide, absorbing PCBs, then transported to the entire food chain and environment… please see: http://EcoDelMar.org/pcb

please keep us informed of the tests performed/results when back on land.

Mucho Kudos for the research well done! : -)

Larry @ http://EcoDelMar.org

ps: here are the results for the Cousteau
group: http://EcoDelMar.org/results

and a plastic related advisory for youth:
http://EcoDelMar.org/youth

This article discussed how quickly this plastic is breaking down into this and other chemicals.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090819234651.htm

If anyone does navigate to my website, for the page relevant to this cruise, please click on “For The Earth”.

Thank you.

Why? Because, in my mind, the garbage gyre is the final slap-in-the-face, along with the atmosphere, that our mindless capitalistic society can give our mother earth. It’s the ultimate example of our “I don’t care” or “It’s all about me” attitude – the attitude that causes one not to think (or care) about their impact on our world.

All that negativity said, LOL; Kudos for the great work your team has and is doing. I hope there will be a medium with which we laymen can stay informed on the discoveries and research that follows your cruise.

Now, how do we get this information on the Today Show?

I think we must have been spawned from the ocean… it’s like imagining the great womb of the world with little bits of garbage floating in the amniotic fluid.

It doesn’t compute. It’s like the decimation of a virgin… something so pure and vast… home to us all nothing but a big trash dump now.

If you really let it sink in and see it for what it really is, from a child’s point of view, you have to ask – how could we let this happen? Why would we?

But scientists no longer seem to have their child’s eye view. It’s like they lost that when they decided it was okay to cause agony to small animals for human “good” and “research.”

Our planet became a thing to use, abuse, squander.

I used to love science with a passion… then one day they asked me to do something in Biology class that was everything against what I believed in – the useless killing of a cat for my titillation and “edification.” And more.

I apologize… I just wish we could see the magnnificence of our planet and all the creatures upon it. And cherish, treasure it… and them.

Can you imagine a future where your children will only know polluted seafood and muticolored beaches littered with debris, where they have to wash everytime they leave the beach for fear of PCB and other toxins?

Where everywhere you go there are little fleck reminders of our… wastefulness. We all know better than to keep a filthy house… did we think the world was flat and went on forever? Did we forget it’s round and everything we do comes back round upon us?

It’s OUR world. Especially if we’re under 35.

What will there be for us if the elders and supposedly wisers don’t help preserve our world and keep it clean?