Massive dumping ground of WWII-era munitions discovered off Los Angeles coast
As part of an unprecedented effort to map and better understand the history of ocean dumping in the region, scientists have found a multitude of discarded munition boxes, smoke floats and depth charges lurking 3,000 feet underwater.
And you know that it wasn't just the one dump site, or only the US military doing it... The amount of toxic shit tossed in the ocean by every country in the world in the past and currently must be astounding.
Out of sight, out of mind.
The munitions weren’t even the big part of the linked story to me.
Millions of gallons of DDT were apparently dumped there as well, and not even in barrels, just dumped from tanker barges!
You know, the chemical that fucks the food chain all the way up to the bald eagle and condor?
Ahh the good old days when you could just fuck waste off into any old place with zero thought.
If you think this doesn’t happen anymore, I got some bad news for you hahahaha
More on this research project:
Jan 05, 2024
Second Seafloor Survey of Dumpsite off Coast of Southern California Completed
Researchers mapped 135 square miles, found high volume of discarded military munitions
(https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/second-seafloor-survey-dumpsite-coast-southern-california-completed)
and
Chemical Dumpsite Offshore Southern California
(https://scripps.ucsd.edu/ddtcoastaldumpsite)
Publication:
Merrifield, S. T., Celona, S., McCarthy, R. A., Pietruszka, A., Batchelor, H., Hess, R., Nager, A., Young, R., Sadorf, K., Levin, L. A., Valentine, D. L., Conrad, J. E., & Terrill, E. J. (2023). Wide-Area Debris Field and Seabed Characterization of a Deep Ocean Dump Site Surveyed by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. Environmental Science & Technology, acs.est.3c01256. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c01256
And here we thought the DDT was the only issue. Just imagine what's around other WWII naval bases.
So that's where those California rolls came from!
Ah cool, need me some more mortars. Brb