" Last week I built a beach fire to keep warm for the days fishing. Sometimes you even have to take some plastic wrapped Commercial dry kindling wood with you to get the fire to take to get the soaked through beach wood to take, let alone matches, lighter etc."

Styrofoam flotsam chunks make great kindling (don't breath it) in an emergency.

We don't get much Styrofoam flotsam getting washed up in these parts, in fact I don't think I've seen any of any size worth burning. We do get more organic material such as dead seals, dead whales and more recently the occasional dead folks (jumpers from the Tay Road Bridge getting washed out of estuary) etc.

It's like the British General said to the American General during the European Campaign, "My, you Americans leave such messy battlefields."

If you recall, when stopped along waterways, I often post what useful items I can see near my position. There is always useful trash along southern canals and rivers but very, very little to be seen along the northern rivers. Then again, the rivers do flow from north to south.

Interesting. I built a fine signal fire along the Pacific shore in the rain in January in the Olympic National rain forest. Huge chunks of styrofoam were everywhere. Being in the middle of a wilderness area, they must have traveled there from far away. We get radioactive stuff on the beaches of Washington from Japan. I guess I haven't been to a ocean beach that didn't have lots of foam and other trash. Even found an old ammo can with with 30-06 ammo in it on the California coast. It was not usable. The brass and bullets were completely green.

It seems to me that Cody stood by his principles.I could picture the scene."Cody, we want you and Joe to do this really stupid, dangerous and needless thing/stunt." Then Cody's reply would be,"No #*%@% way".The producers would say do it or yer fired.Cody's reply "well I'm fired"....
JMHO

I respect Cody

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John

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecologywa/8142290039/in/set-72157630409598334

I see what you mean.

Thank fully the beaches such as Lunan Bay near where I sometimes do my sea fishing are reasonably clean and free of such plastic pollution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBm4D6RcaAs

I've been hearing about some bad news about the Pacific Ocean recently, such as dying seals due to radiation in Alaska (Fukishima Catastrophe Fallout?) and I have even heard that Pacific Mackerel have become almost impossible to find. I don't know how true this is though but considering the Midway plastic pollution disaster it may have some credibility.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SO89Bj2Fvc

A quick recall of the north Pacific currents indicates all that Styrofoam coming into Willipa bay is coming from where exactly?

Radiation killing seals in Alaska? So far none of the detectors along the coast are picking up any noticeable increases.

As we surmised previously, the rate of propogational dissipation of the radioactive plume puts the level of radiation about down to the background level within about 200 miles of the Japanese coast.

I haven't seen any studies of fish along the Pacific coast of North America showing signs of radioactive contamination beyond ambient levels.

I wonder where all the garbage at Midway came from? Do you reckon they are showing that commercial in Japan, Indonesia, China, etc?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecologywa/8316398784/in/set-72157630409598334/lightbox/

A floating dock made from Styrofoam was also found (it was in the same photostream), presumably from the Japanese Tsunami considering the debris in the other photographs.

This chunk of debris made its way across the pacific ocean. Yes I would have checked this large chunk of debris for nuclear fall out as nuclear fallout can be chemically reactive as well as for checking invasive species clinging to it.


I wouldn't rule it out.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...gists-warn.html


Probably but considering the amount, some say up to 7 million tons (equivalent to the mass of 70 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers) of plastic waste covering the area of double the size of Texas swirling around in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, someone is definitely responsible. For such amount to be estimated, someone has probably been deliberately dumping plastic waste into the Pacific Ocean over the years. This was even before the recent Japanese Tsunami.

For another part of the world of such tremendous natural wilderness and for folks who are proud of the beauty of their surroundings having to suffer such industrial pollution is unjust to say the least.

I would rule it out, at least at present. See for example Buesseler, K.O. 2014. Fukushima and ocean radioactivity. Oceanography 27(1):92–105. From the abstract of that article:
AFLM, if I were you I would be more concerned with marine life in your neighborhood being effected by things closer to home, such as Sellafield. How are the seals doing in your part of the world?

Note that I am not trying to minimize the significance of the ongoing Fukushima radioactive release. Releasing radioactivity into the environment is bad, no matter how it happens. However I haven't seen any convincing case that radiation is the issue with Alaska seals. We (the world-wide collective "we") are doing lots of bad sh*t to the oceans, like warming, acidification, etc etc. Recent work suggests that reduction of the polar ice pack has allowed previously separated popultions to mix, and share diseases. See Disappearing Arctic sea ice may be helping spread diseases among mammals. This article refers mostly to populations in Nova Scotia, but it is entirely plausible that similar things are happening to Alaskan sea mammals.

I've been a fan of Cody Lundin for almost 20 years. Safe to say I will never watch DS again. Really it's time for it to die anyways- it's pure reality crap now. That's probably why he got fired, for deciding not to go along with the farce any longer.