Map of ocean health. This is not good!!

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Map of ocean health. This is not good!!

Postby parrysurf » Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:03 am

Should I encourage my kids to try a sport other than surfing?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7241428.stm

We need to change!! :shrug:
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Re: Map of ocean health. This is not good!!

Postby drowningbitbybit » Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:39 am

parrysurf wrote:Should I encourage my kids to try a sport other than surfing?


Hell no, you need to get your kids surfing so that they take an interest in the oceans and so they can be the next generation of demonstrators when GlobalPollution Ltd want to dump yet more sh#t in the water.
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Postby parrysurf » Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:22 am

I have been pushing them in waves each summer....seems like I'm shoving them into the sewer.
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Postby spark6 » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:11 am

as DBBB said, don't discourage them, get them to work changing things, and, as a matter of fact, get to work yourself! Better than demonstrators, we can be the people who put a stop to the practices that cause the map to look like that. This is our world we are destroying, and if we don't want to be surfing, and living for that matter in haz-mat suits we had better get on the f**king bandwagon. Say what you will about global warming, we have reached critical mass with the sheer amount of crap in our oceans. Its not healthy for anyone. We go running like chickens with out heads cut off looking for a cure for cancer, well, how about we work towards making our world a healthy place to live again? You don't even need a cure, just some forethough and effort.

Alright, my tree-hugging alter-ego has tired itself out... (blush)

Hmmph.
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Postby parrysurf » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:33 am

^:claps:


we do try as a family....recycling, teaching the kids and all.


Here is one we all can do. Pick up a piece of trash each time we get out of the water. It's easy.
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Postby RJD » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:36 am

I'm dubious every time scientists mention anything to do with global warming now.

For sure man needs to stop throwing so much raw sewage & stuff into the seas, this realy affects coastal waters more than anything & makes it unpleasant & dangerous for animal & people.

We also need to stop fishing things to death too.

As to Global warming, its probably a natural process we can do nothing about anyhow.
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Postby pkbum » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:58 am

I heard that the sewers just dump all the stuff down the ocean. Is this true? Might as well think that I m surfing in a pile of turds.
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Postby Sillysausage » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:59 am

nah wouldn't stop them surfing, never done me much harm and i'm in some dirty water. can see your point but try and get them onto the clean water flagged beaches and should be ok
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Postby parrysurf » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:17 pm

pkbum wrote:I heard that the sewers just dump all the stuff down the ocean. Is this true? Might as well think that I m surfing in a pile of turds.


sewers are supposed to go thru processing plants....supposed to.
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Postby PapaW » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:02 pm

Yes, Processing/'treatment' plants are (at a minimium level) supposed to screan the waste water. (basically this means just the large bits taken out. And that people, is still classed as sewage treatment in the EU.
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Postby CHarvey » Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:33 pm

Yaaaaa for the human race!!!
Go team!
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Postby garbarrage » Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:26 pm

surfing and sensitivity to nature go hand in hand. surfers are as close to nature as anyone can get.... with a few exceptions who maybe we should find an environmentally sound way of disposing of. (something carbon neutral - like stoning for example).
there is no excuse for not taking your crap with you when you leave a beach.
even driving to the beach contributes (silence from the owner of the Prius please).
move to the beach live in a hut, catch fish, grow vegetables....
i fear i've gone too far!
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Postby RJD » Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:46 pm

Sewage should be treated and then exposed to a ot ov UV light, either artificialy or naturaly in holding ponds.

Ofcourse thats should be. not is. And it does depend on hevy rain etc too, that often flushes stuff out that shouldnt be.
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Postby Choked out Surfer » Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:19 pm

Ive been out surfing the river jettys in Newport Beach and have had a tampex float onto my surfboard,Ive also saw small parts of turds float by,this was about 2 years ago,ive never been back.
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Postby pkbum » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:41 pm

Choked out Surfer wrote:Ive been out surfing the river jettys in Newport Beach and have had a tampex float onto my surfboard,Ive also saw small parts of turds float by,this was about 2 years ago,ive never been back.


the worst thing i have ever saw was some bikkini floating by. But turd? :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
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Postby MrJoe » Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:03 pm

I found a used needle on the beach at Croyde last weekend :( I picked it up and took it to the surf shop to ask if they could discard of it.
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