Published: September 21st, 2012 at 9:09 pm ET
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Title: Tsunami debris: 30 ft. dock washes up near Hawaii
Source: CBS News via KGMB
Date: Sept 21, 2012
Yesterday [...] it was about 15 miles north of Molokai [...] the fisherman thinks it will hit around Kahuku sometime Friday evening which had Oahu fisherman concerned
- Dock estimated to be 30 feet by 50 feet
- First seen Monday night
- Fishermen concerned about nuclear contamination
- NOAA, Coast Guard, state officials refuse to speak on camera and blame each other
Watch the video here
Published: September 21st, 2012 at 9:09 pm ET
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Tons more to come. This dock is the top end of structural debris that floats. The heavy waste and semi-submerged debris will be a very ugly batch of waste. The response from government and the panic from the agencies is a sign the the US is aware of the disaster and wants to keep silence as a policy. Hold them accountable. Hold the IAEA to the fire and all other nuclear agencies claiming they regulate and approve nuclear facilities.
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Deaer Grampybone,
No doubt Hawaii residents are concerned! Here are links for some good NOAA sites:
Aloha.
'After receiving a generous grant from the NOAA Marine Debris Program, the Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission (KIRC) removed 31 tons of debris from Kanapou Bay during 10 cleanup trips (most were 2-3 night camp outs) in 2010-2011.' (Includes photos)
http://marinedebrisblog.wordpress.com/
Excellent information regarding marine debris and ocean currents:
http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/info/patch.html
Japan tsunami debris page:
http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/tsunamidebris/
Cont.
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Cont.
Hawaii Marine Debris Action Plan:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6Ii1I5bMmorYTY4OTlhNTgtOWE1Ny00ODdlLTkzZDItYzkyYTEwZWViZTYz/edit?hl=en&pli=1
What to Do If You Find Marine Debris from the Japan Tsunami ..
http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/what-do-if-you-find-marine-debris-japan-tsunami.html
Thousands of volunteers were taking to West Coast beaches on Saturday for the 27th annual "Coastal Cleanup"…
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/14/13862732-tsunami-debris-adds-new-element-to-coastal-cleanup-day?lite
Marine debris handling guidelines for general and hazmat:
http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/tsunamidebris/debris_handling.html
Dear Folks, this was the best I could do with the time I have this morning. Please stay safe and remember if you're participating in a clean-up, never turn your back on the ocean -especially during winter.
Aloha
http://visittheoregoncoast.com/beach-safety/
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andagi, I've not heard that warning before.
Never turn your back on the Ocean,
Don't underestimate Gaias' daughter,
She can make very forward advances
And pull you into her water.
No need to forego ocean pleasure,
Meditation, recreational fun,
But give her respect in due measure
And if she withdraws from you – Run!
Your behaviour must be circumspect,
Don't soil her watery gown,
She can, what you build by her, wreck,
And in her rages she can many drown.
Beneath countenance calm or most stormy,
Life rides in the Oceans' great carriage,
We are wed. To her needs be conforming,
Or Gaia will annul the marriage.
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Dear or-well,
Beautiful
Aloha.
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Hopefully the Hawaiian citizens will realize that it's not a tourist boon…the dock that hit Oregon unleashed a carnival of gawkers:
"Japanese tsunami dock, a gift in disguise to Oregon's coast, soon to be sliced and diced"
"Within days of the 66-foot-long, 19-foot-wide, 7-foot-tall dock's landing, visitors stormed the beach, arriving in cars, trucks and RVs bearing license plates from all over the country and British Columbia. They climbed on it and posed for pictures. One intrepid artist even painted part of it."
http://mobile.oregonlive.com/advorg/pm_29233/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=w8OhPTNR
SP: There's more to come than just floating Japanese docks. Wait until toxic chemical tanks start washing up.
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what travels faster, a dock or water?
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Wave action created by wind currents moves even large floating objects several times faster than a contaminated plume 300 feet in depth. Plumes in aquifers are near glacier-like.
But oceans have underwater currents. The Japan Current (Kuroshio Current) travels northeast from Japan.
"eventually becomes the North Pacific Current (also known as the North Pacific West Wind Drift). Much of this current’s force is lost west of the Hawaiian Islands as a great south-flowing eddy, the Kuroshio countercurrent, joins the Pacific North Equatorial Current and directs the warm water back to the Philippine Sea. The remainder of the original flow continues east to split off the coast of Canada and form the Alaska and California currents. The Kuroshio exhibits distinct seasonal fluctuations. It is strongest from May to August. Receding some in late summer and autumn, it begins to increase from January to February only to weaken in early spring. Similar to the Gulf Stream…
Only about 1,300 feet (400 m) deep, the Kuroshio travels at rates ranging between 20 and 120 inches (50 and 300 cm) per second."
http://m.eb.com/topic/325346
To be cont…
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What they discovered after Chernobyl was that cesium dropped to the ocean floor very, very slowly:
"only 0.2% of the corresponding caesium- 137 deposition had passed through 200 meters by that time [one month after deposit], an observation which is consistent with the generally non-reactive behaviour of this long-lived nuclide in seawater. For this reason, Chernobyl-derived caesium-137 has proved to be very useful as a water mass movement tracer in the Mediterranean and other seas for several years after the accident."
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull381/38106081822.pdf
SP: Other nuclear fallout products sink much faster. But not cesium. There will be a large amount of cesium still hanging near thd surface even after traveling for years in ocean currents.
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Since we know from a 1957 cesium study on fish that the radiation passes through the skin membranes of fish, it is not unlikely human swimmers will face the same infiltration of their body just by getting in contaminated water.
Better unload that beach house before the Fukushima cesium plumes arrive. And they are coming…
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Depends on the wind mostly I suppose.
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