Health Editor’s Note: DDT has been banned for use in the U.S. since 1972. Where did the barrels of DDT go? Why, apparently they were dumped into the ocean by their producer, Montrose Chemical Corp. Between 1947 and 1961, 767 tons of DDT were potentially tossed into the ocean. Good Grief! How could this happen and what will be done to correct this evil act?…..Carol
‘Underwater Roombas’ Scan Southern California Coast for DDT Barrels
by Elizabeth Gamillo/Smithsonianmag.com
After Los Angeles Times’ environmental reporter Rosanna Xia exposed an old DDT dumping ground in an investigative report in October 2020, scientists and policymakers gathered together to map out the extent of the disaster littering the ocean floor.
Last week, a team of 31 scientists and crew members aboard the oceanographic research vessel Sally Ride, kicked off a two-week expedition to survey 50,000 acres of the ocean floor, reports the LA Times. Prompted by the investigation, the team was assembled in just five months—it usually takes up to two years to plan a deep-sea expedition.
Aiding in their search are two remote-operated robots that use sonar to scan the seafloor, sort of like “underwater Roombas,” as project lead Eric Terrill of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography tells the LA Times‘ Xia. Instead of scanning a carpet for debris, these robots are seeking out thousands of barrels of DDT to help researchers create a detailed map of where each item is.
“We want to provide a common base map of what’s on the seabed at a high enough resolution,” Terrill tells the LA Times.
Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator.
She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues.
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more info on ocean dumping nerve and mustard gas disposal
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43783687?seq=1
and
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-oct-30-na-chemweapons30-story.html
Ted Koppel on his nightly ABC TV broadcast was interviewing an expert on ocean dumping…
Ted: are you saying you could dump as much chemicals and sewerage into the ocean forever and the ocean would clean itself?
Expert: You never heard of the three NERVE GAS ships again did you?
Ted; WHAT???
Bam- Instant commercial cut the conversation 3minutes the interview continued.
Ted: What were you saying about nerve gas ships?
Expert: I didn’t say anything about ships.
Ted: OH!
Ted continued his interview…unfazed,about sewer dumping.
NONE of the major search engines report the interview or the fact that the US military loaded tons of nerve gas onto three derelict Navy ships, welded the hatches shut, and towed them out to sea and sank them. Somewhere
Polio and DDT are linked.
It is good to see that the money We have wasted destroying tthe Middle East has left us with Technologies with which We may useto correct earlier errors.
Thanks for the report, Carol.
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