It’s not just toxic chemical waste and mysterious barrels that litter the seafloor off the coast of Los Angeles. The U.S. Navy has confirmed that what the Scripps team discovered “are likely a result of World War II-era disposal practices” and noted in a statement that “disposal of munitions at sea at this location was approved at that time to …
First it was the eerie images of barrels leaking on the seafloor not far from Catalina Island. “We still see original DDT on the seafloor from 50, 60, 70 years ago, which tells us that it’s not breaking down the way that once thought it should,” said UC Santa Barbara scientist David Valentine, who shared these preliminary findings Thursday during …
When the research vessel Sally Ride set sail for Santa Catalina Island to map an underwater graveyard of DDT waste barrels, its crew had high hopes of documenting for the first time just how many corroded containers littered the seafloor off the coast of Los Angeles. “I was pretty shocked that it just kept extending as far as it did,” …
