(Mass.) Lobster pot tag washes up across the Atlantic 2 decades after ‘Perfect Storm’

[jpak]

http://www.patriotledger.com/answerbook/cohasset/x46240929/Lobster-pot-tag-washes-up-across-the-Atlantic-2-decades-after-Perfect-Storm

When Richard Figueiredo lost a couple of hundred lobster pots to the wind and water of the 1991 “Perfect Storm,” the South Shore native and fourth-generation fisherman chalked it up to the cost of the trade. Other fishermen lost boats and gear too.

Twenty years later and 3,000 miles away, a reminder of the famous storm has turned up on an Irish beach – a weathered trap tag with Figueiredo’s name on it.

Figueiredo never imagined such a discovery was possible, until Rosemary Hill of Waterville in County Kerry contacted his son, Rich Figueiredo, on Facebook last week.

“The odds are phenomenal,” the elder Figueiredo said.

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[Poll_Blind]

1. Over the next year or so, we'll start reading about material from the Japanese earthquake washing..

...up against Hawaii, then the West coast, then some of it (from what I've read) will go back and hit Hawaii again.

Makes you wonder about all that radioactive material the sea has also absorbed. The sea is big, but it ain't that big.

I don't mean to thread-jack, that's an excellent article. It just got me to thinking about so many things that wind up in the ocean and how they can come back, in one sense or another, unexpectedly.

PB

[madrchsod]

3. actually the sea will absorb all of radioactivity

all the radioactivity from all the nuclear testing in the southern pacific has vanished. it is the islands have retained the radioactivity. the war ships that were used in these tests are not radioactive or is the seabed around them. there are possible mutations in some fish but so far it`s not proven.

the scientists are speculating that the salt water has absorbed the radioactivity and diluted it across the world.

[madokie]

4. Yeah, who cares about a few mutations in the fish world

hell they're put here for us to eat after all and never really had a life of their own anyway so who cares that some of are/will be mutants. :sarcasm:


Then we have the scientist are speculating, what a load of crap. Hopefully you forgot the sarcasm thingie

[jpak]

5. The islands are uninhabitable - half a century later

ionizing radiation is not good for you

yup

[Poll_Blind]

7. The sea is not a magic sponge. See: BP oil disaster. nt

PB

[MADem]

2. Isn't that wild! nt

[AlecBGreen]

6. reminds me of the great rubber duckie ocean float

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-464768/Thousands-rubber-ducks-land-British-shores-15-year-journey.html

"They were toys destined only to bob up and down in nothing bigger than a child's bath - but so far they have floated halfway around the world.

The armada of 29,000 plastic yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs broke free from a cargo ship 15 years ago.

Since then they have travelled 17,000 miles, floating over the site where the Titanic sank, landing in Hawaii and even spending years frozen in an Arctic ice pack.

...

While the ducks are undoubtedly a loss to the bath-time fun of thousands of children, their adventures at sea have proved an innvaluable aid to science."