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Pioneering oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer unravels the puzzle of marine currents, uncovers the astonishing storyline of flotsam, and changes the world's view of garbage, the ocean, and our global environment.Curtis Ebbesmeyer is not any typical scientist. He's been a consulting oceanographer for multinational businesses and a lead scientist on international research expeditions, but he's never placed a conventional academics visit. He seized the world's creativeness as no other scientist could when he and his worldwide network of beachcomber volunteers tracked the ocean's currents using a large number of sneakers and plastic material bath toys and games spilled from storm-tossed freighters.Now, for the very first time, Ebbesmeyer tells the storyline of his lifelong struggle to solve the sea's mysteries while posting his most astonishing discoveries. He recounts how flotsam has evolved the course of record - leading Viking mariners to safe harbors, Columbus to the brand new World, and Japan to start to the Western - and exactly how it may even have made the origin of life possible. He chases icebergs and floating islands; investigates ocean mysteries from ghost ships to a spate of washed-up severed feet on Canadian beaches; and explores the substantial floating "garbage patches" and waste-heaped "junk beaches" that accumulate the flotsam and jetsam of industrial society.Finally, Ebbesmeyer unveils the rhythmic and harmonic order in the huge oceanic currents called gyres - "the heartbeat of the world " - and the risks that global warming and disintegrating plastic material waste pose to the seas...and to us.
