For decades, a graveyard of corroding barrels has littered the seafloor just off the coast of Los Angeles. Jacob Schmidt, lead author of the study and a PhD candidate in Valentine’s lab, combed through hundreds of pages of old records and tracked down seven lines of evidence indicating that California Salvage, the same company tasked with pouring the DDT waste …
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 …
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,” …
