"§"
agu
Pacific Toy Spill Fuels Ocean Current Pathways Research
Badewannen-Enten im grossen Ozean
(E?)(L?) http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/ducks.htmlManchmal gehen Container einer Schiffsladung verloren. Auch ein Container mit kleinen Plastikenten ist einmal verloren gegangen.
On January 10, 1992, a container vessel crossing the North Pacific Ocean along the great circle route from Hong Kong to Tacoma, Wash., encountered severe storm conditions near the International Date Line. At 44.7°N, 178.1°E, a dozen forty-foot (13.3 m) containers were washed overboard, one of which held about 29,000 plastic bathtub toys (see Figure 1). As they fell overboard, some of the steel cargo containers may have been torn open by the vessel's stays, or they may have been ruptured by collisions with other containers.
Auf dieser Seite wird untersucht, wo sie entlanggeschwommen sein könnten.