tsunami debris to hit west coast

Discussion in 'Mid Atlantic' started by super fish, Dec 16, 2011.

  1. super fish

    super fish Well-Known Member

    Sep 2, 2008
    I saw on good morning america this morning that 25 million tons of debris from the tsunami in japan is expected to hit the west coast...some of which has recently started showing up. Good luck to all those who will be surfing in it.
     
  2. Franyfingers

    Franyfingers Well-Known Member

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    Feb 28, 2007

  3. MFitz73

    MFitz73 Well-Known Member

    Aug 21, 2010
    I wonder if it's radioactive debris?
     
  4. super fish

    super fish Well-Known Member

    Sep 2, 2008
    hopefully not, but it could be possible
     
  5. zach619

    zach619 Well-Known Member

    Jan 21, 2009
    If there is any danger to that, which the state and local media has completely downplayed, I would be surprised. They have been monitoring water for traces of nuclear waste etc since the tsunami hit. All the levels read at a dead 0 basically. From universities and the government alike. The path is central to Nor Cal, but the japanese current pulls way south, very deep offshore. If none of the pacific trash and all the other junk in the pacific never make it to shore, I dont see why the debris would. a few thousand miles in a salt water bath and I would assume anything that didnt breakdown into nothing wasnt radioactive anyway....

    maybe thats just wishfull thinking on my part, but scripps and noaa have been all over it, discrediting that. I would like to see the show you watched though. I am sure they had solid data from someone.
     
  6. super fish

    super fish Well-Known Member

    Sep 2, 2008

    well they also said it wasn't suppose to show up for another year and it is ahead of schedule...who knows. that stuff could have came off a boat
     
  7. avonsurfernc

    avonsurfernc Well-Known Member

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    Dec 17, 2009
    You can bet it will still be safer than NJ water. The EPA says its safe for swimmers....what a scam. NJ ocean is some of the filthiest bodies of filth I have ever been in. That sewage smell near 45th street in Ocean City is priceless.
     
  8. krl0919

    krl0919 Well-Known Member

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    May 3, 2011

    that's one less person we have to worry about^
     
  9. kidrock

    kidrock Well-Known Member

    Aug 1, 2010
    national news in Seattle is reporting that debris has already hit beaches around Vancouver, BC, Canada. Probably will be hitting Washington beaches soon, if not already.
     
  10. eatswell

    eatswell Well-Known Member

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    Jul 14, 2009
    this avonsurfernc dude is always bashing jersey's water. that's pretty much every post i notice by him.
     
  11. ripthegnar

    ripthegnar Well-Known Member

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    Aug 24, 2010
    Thank god the water around here is clean, because the air sure isn't. Fukishima is a worse disaster than Chernobyl. It is rumored that reactor number four has completely collapsed and no one is reporting it. They are still melting down and have no way of stopping it.
     
  12. wallysurfr

    wallysurfr Well-Known Member

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    Oct 23, 2007
    Right? If I ever hear of him paddling out in NJ, I might show up and dunk him long enough to make him have to drink some Jersey goodness.

    Maybe some Honda Civic's will wash up. They'll probly still run too.
     
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  13. Masterjasson

    Masterjasson Well-Known Member

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    Mar 8, 2010
    "But you know something? In my neighborhood no one ever got polio. No one! EVER! You know why? Cause WE SWAM IN RAW SEWAGE! It strengthened our immune system, the polio never had a prayer. We were tempered in raw ****!" - George Carlin
    Just made me think of this. dunno why...
     
  14. SkySurfnSnow

    SkySurfnSnow Well-Known Member

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    Nov 14, 2006
    I'm sure NJ can get quite dirty, but I bet Newport River Jetties takes the cake after a rain!!
     
  15. SkySurfnSnow

    SkySurfnSnow Well-Known Member

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    Nov 14, 2006
  16. kidrock

    kidrock Well-Known Member

    Aug 1, 2010
    Imperial Beach, San Diego....next to the Mexican border. By far the filthiest water I have ever seen or smelled in America. There are a few Baja beaches where the sewage empties directly into the breaks, and makes IB water pristine in comparison (Baja Malibu and Canneries, to name a couple). I've surfed RJ's many times and yes, it gets bad. But not IB or Mexico bad.
     
  17. kidrock

    kidrock Well-Known Member

    Aug 1, 2010
  18. aka pumpmaster

    aka pumpmaster Well-Known Member

    Apr 30, 2008
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  19. windswellsucks

    windswellsucks Well-Known Member

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    Oct 20, 2007
    I saw baja malibu absolutely firing once.. however the sewage deal was just too freaky, so i kept driving south to calafia
     
  20. zach619

    zach619 Well-Known Member

    Jan 21, 2009
    IB gets a bad wrap. Its not all that bad. Neither is Baja Malibu... You have to avoid rainfall and certain times of year, just like anywhere in the world. IB fires all winter long and the heavy currents move poopoo south to Mex.... Its really just the big eave breaks at the TJ rivermouth that are contaminated, not IB itself... IB goes off..... Baja Malibu has a tainted scent, and isnt all that clean, but 350 days of the year, its fine.... Poop in TJ stands still unless its 72 hours post rainfall.... You just have to know when to go.... Everything North of IB is plenty clean unless the cities release sewage treatment in emergency situations.... Northern Baja is really clean. It gets such a bad wrap because of one or two places... better waves though than 99% of the US breaks. .... so it is what it is.