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.
Think if we dried them off with a towel or something, they’d still be good? I have a towel somewhere. Hold on.
this meme is my age or so
The origin of this joke is my age or so 😭
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.3c01256And 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
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