Another "wow!" Can't wait for the next installment.
Aside: Over the years I've done a lot of walking, biking, and horseback riding in the woods of Martha's Vineyard. In the earlier years, up to 2000 or so, I saw plenty of dumped garbage (some islanders' resistance to the notion that they had to pay at the town landfills) and several junked vehicles, all of them at least 30 years old. So it doesn't surprise me in the least that people have been dumping hazardous and radioactive waste in the ocean, which is far more vast than the woods of Martha's Vineyard.
I well remember the stories in the paper in tge 1960’s and 1970’s. Busted bombs from Otis and tge target ship, industrial wastes
My father often joked, in sarcastic disgust: “The ocean is the ultimate dump.”
Knowing full well that someday it would come back to haunt us, there’s no way to clean it up. Pollution of the fisheries, swimming…”Ocean Dumping” as it was generally called was what we did. The intention was for it to go over the shelf i.e. off the bank where we don’t fish but rumor was oftentimes it wasn’t. Some said it was better to dump on the George’s Bank because if we ever wanted to clean it up we might want to recover it. Bombs we’re almost certainly always taken to the shelf as no one wanted to drag up one of those. But I think some said they got some in their gear. The dumpers also being fishermen or friends with them…We hung together with Otis and the requirement
I understand that there are nuclear bombs over the shelf. One or two that were so broken and dangerous that was the only idea. Over the road or dismantled on the land was viewed as unsafe. Still today, how could we ever cope with such things?
Wow, Seth. Not only is this a compelling story, but you've written it like a TV screenplay. It's time for the commercial break but not one reader is oging to change that channel! we want to hear the man speak.
Another "wow!" Can't wait for the next installment.
Aside: Over the years I've done a lot of walking, biking, and horseback riding in the woods of Martha's Vineyard. In the earlier years, up to 2000 or so, I saw plenty of dumped garbage (some islanders' resistance to the notion that they had to pay at the town landfills) and several junked vehicles, all of them at least 30 years old. So it doesn't surprise me in the least that people have been dumping hazardous and radioactive waste in the ocean, which is far more vast than the woods of Martha's Vineyard.
I well remember the stories in the paper in tge 1960’s and 1970’s. Busted bombs from Otis and tge target ship, industrial wastes
My father often joked, in sarcastic disgust: “The ocean is the ultimate dump.”
Knowing full well that someday it would come back to haunt us, there’s no way to clean it up. Pollution of the fisheries, swimming…”Ocean Dumping” as it was generally called was what we did. The intention was for it to go over the shelf i.e. off the bank where we don’t fish but rumor was oftentimes it wasn’t. Some said it was better to dump on the George’s Bank because if we ever wanted to clean it up we might want to recover it. Bombs we’re almost certainly always taken to the shelf as no one wanted to drag up one of those. But I think some said they got some in their gear. The dumpers also being fishermen or friends with them…We hung together with Otis and the requirement
I understand that there are nuclear bombs over the shelf. One or two that were so broken and dangerous that was the only idea. Over the road or dismantled on the land was viewed as unsafe. Still today, how could we ever cope with such things?
What a nail biter. I hit ‘refresh’ a few times thinking Id get the full story but no, gotta be patient
Geez! I’m on the edge of my seat Seth!!!!
Carla be careful! A week is a long time to sit on the edge of a seat!
:) :)
Wow, Seth. Not only is this a compelling story, but you've written it like a TV screenplay. It's time for the commercial break but not one reader is oging to change that channel! we want to hear the man speak.
Morning Seth, Yes it is. We should talk. Brian Braginton-Smith (508)280-6909, bbs@lewisbay.org