Garbage patch video

Below is a very telling video re: the plastic in the Pacific. It's pretty disgusting and makes me wonder about the condition of the other bodies of water. One of the "old salts" in my sailing club has lived on the Chesapeake all his life and he is in his early 60's and he said back in the day, you could not run your powerboat across the bay w/o stopping 2 or 3 times to clean the sea grass off the prop. Another guy I was talking to worked on the Bay Bridge and remembers how clear it was and how you could see schools of rockfish swimming under the bridge. Nowadays I've seen aerial photos of a brown streak down the middle of the Chester River downstream from a sewage treatment plant. It is such a joke that there is a local band that must not think a lot of themselves as they call themselves the "Chester River Runoff". _http://www.ted.com/talks/capt_charles_moore_on_the_seas_of_plastic.html_ (http://www.ted.com/talks/capt_charles_moore_on_the_seas_of_plastic.html) Paul West Adventure Kwest '80 Cal 39