Wildlife

"The Pacific Ocean is Broken"

The following is a report received from a sailor, Ivan MacFayden sailing the Pacific.

“After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead,” Australian yachtsman Ivan Macfadyen said.

“We hardly saw any living things. We saw one whale, sort of rolling helplessly on the surface with what looked like a big tumour on its head. It was pretty sickening.

I’ve done a lot of miles on the ocean in my life and I’m used to seeing turtles, dolphins, sharks and big flurries of feeding birds. But this time, for 3000 nautical miles there was nothing alive to be seen.”

In place of the missing life was garbage in astounding volumes

And something else. The boat’s vivid yellow paint job, never faded by sun or sea in years gone past, reacted with something in the water off Japan, losing its sheen in a strange and unprecedented way."

There have been several similar reports about wildlife [or lack thereof] around the Pacific.