Pacific Ocean water quality

[SJB]

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/ ... ation.html

[rodndtube]

Maybe the beneficial side effect will be to cleanse the polluted waters of SoCal?

[GeoffreyLevens]

Maybe the beneficial side effect will be to cleanse the polluted waters of SoCal?

Do you mean as in "eliminating the hordes of surfers due to early death"?

[rodndtube]

Maybe the beneficial side effect will be to cleanse the polluted waters of SoCal?

Do you mean as in "eliminating the hordes of surfers due to early death"?

LOL! Both I do believe;)

[Nels]

An old surfing friend called me out of the blue last Thursday night. We were catching up on stuff and he happened to say that we still had a couple of years left to surf - it sounded so finite. I didn't have a clue, but he put me onto this stuff. Apparently the radioactivity didn't disperse as expected or hoped and an unexpected sidebar is it's traveling east a couple of years faster than expected. My friend works in an unrelated tracking field of science but talked about how they were following it, and got into the old "rad" vs. "Sievert" measurements and acceptable annual levels of exposure and what was and still is getting released in Japan. It was terrifying, like bad science fiction. Worse was the fact that if you go searching you will find a real lack of material concerning this situation after August of 2012 until this one came out.

Pacific coast real estate may get cheaper...but that's the only "good thing". Seafood and shellfish from the northern and Eastern Pacific don't look as appetizing. Kelp is an ingredient in tons of things.
On and on...

Apparently Baja is thought to be a potential "end zone" for much of this, as it sits somewhat between current zones.

[rodndtube]

There has been very little coverage of this except from some off-beat news sources that are typically... well, hysteria news outlets purporting to not be lame steam/mainstream media, as if that gives them creds. I am rather surprised that we are not seeing actual sensor data being gathered to show the movement of the radiation. Most of what I have seen are "models" that do not appear to have empirical data points. Now, if the space between the Pacific Northwest and Baja California are impact zones then what does that say about the Hawaiian Islands... our canaries?

Oh... to be an East Coaster!!!

[Nels]

Here's some background from April 2012 on how they were studying things back then. As Rod says, a lot of coverage was from the Hysterical Press, and now there simply isn't a lot of coverage.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46932480/ns/t ... fic-ocean/

It behooves us to keep things in some perspective. Some pre-1960's nuclear waste was dumped in metal drums off a few places on the California coast, including into submarine trenches off Pt. Mugu/Port Hueneme. Possibly Palos Verde as well. It's just hard to "keep things in perspective" when you are kept in the dark about what is really happening. Hopefully that will change.

[rodndtube]

There is a seemingly intelligent discussion going on FB, started by Ken Cullings. Kinda spoofs a lot of the hysteria being pushed here and there. It really bugs me when people pass off tsunami swell tracks as nuclear bits moving across.

[SJB]

Fukushima radiation set to hit the U.S. by 2014
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/29/fukushi ... s_by_2014/

[SJB]

Related subject:

http://matadornetwork.com/change/midway ... pollution/