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...while petty short-sightedness dampened or destroyed all the good ideas, somebody came up with a really good idea. "Hey, let's dump it in the ocean! Yeah, that's it!" Under cover of night, garbage barges loaded with tons of trash began to sneak a couple of miles out to sea and drop their loads right into the ocean. It's like a colossal toilet. Except it doesn't flush. Some of it sinks down to the bottom--where only fish are, anyway--but a whole lot of it doesn't. It just floats around...
...these, Branewski said he is allowedto spend some days across the street, sitting onthe bleachers by the ocean. "You meet some nicepeople to talk to," he said. "People whounderstand. What's the good of talking to peopleif they don't know what you are talking about...
...reach anything." But reaching the site may be the easy part. At those depths, pressures are 4 tons p.s.i., and deep-sea submersibles are unsuited for raising large objects. Even if the sub's hull is crushed and the missiles are lying in the open on the ocean floor, the task is daunting and extremely expensive...
...Along the East Coast we've had major problems with all kinds of trash and garbage slicks, plastic slicks, green tides, red tides, black tides, beach closings. You name it, we've had it along the East Coast because we've treated the ocean in many instances like a repository of last resort," Hughes said...
...Reagan administration opposes the measure, saying it would duplicate the function of already established federal agencies that are developing ocean policies...