01-22-2019, 03:46 AM
Give credit to the people trying to do this cleanup. They guy speaking about it on a TV clip, apparently the director, was young, enthusiastic.
I wonder if they got the proper engineering advice. The boom set-up is 2000 feet long (U-shaped), OK for a calm harbor, but suitable to be dragged around in the open ocean?
Ocean waves and currents are notorious for breaking things up. The Pacific north of Hawaii known for big waves (impacting things even in open ocean). When I first saw the contraption in California heading for the open ocean I thought it would break. It did.
I wonder if they got the proper engineering advice. The boom set-up is 2000 feet long (U-shaped), OK for a calm harbor, but suitable to be dragged around in the open ocean?
Ocean waves and currents are notorious for breaking things up. The Pacific north of Hawaii known for big waves (impacting things even in open ocean). When I first saw the contraption in California heading for the open ocean I thought it would break. It did.