When you hear a ship blow its horn in five short bursts, what are they signaling?
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Congratulations to Darcey Mendoza-Cruz, Mission Hills, CA who correctly identified the two Pacific Ocean “garbage patches”. She emailed: “There are two huge garbage patches in the North Pacific. One is between Hawaii and Japan and the other is between Hawaii and the West Coast. They form where circular winds around high pressure areas act like whirlpools sucking the garbage into the centers.”
