{"id":28838,"date":"2017-08-22T17:01:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T17:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=28838"},"modified":"2017-08-22T17:10:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T17:10:15","slug":"sailing-to-the-pacific-oceans-trash-vortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/08\/sailing-to-the-pacific-oceans-trash-vortex\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing to the Pacific Ocean\u2019s Trash Vortex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his new book, <em>Junk Raft<\/em>, Marcus Eriksen discovers a sea filled with tiny particles of harmful plastic.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 1997, sea captain and surfer Charles Moore was sailing home from Hawaii. He\u2019d been recently finished the TransPacific Yacht Race, and on the way back to California, he decided to take a shortcut. Instead of following the current that swoops along the edge of the North Pacific subtropical gyre, he set a course through the still waters of the high-pressure zone at its center. \u201c1997 was the largest El Ni\u00f1o on record,\u201d he recalled years later. \u201cIt had the warmest surface water in the Pacific,\u201d which made the waters extremely smooth and calm. As Moore passed through, he noticed something: trash\u2014specifically plastic trash\u2014all around. This remote part of the ocean was, he\u00a0told Stephen Colbert\u00a0in 2010, \u201ca disgusting plastic cesspool.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/144436\/sailing-pacific-oceans-trash-vortex\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his new book, Junk Raft, Marcus Eriksen discovers a sea filled with tiny particles of harmful plastic. In the summer of 1997, sea captain and surfer Charles Moore was sailing home from Hawaii. He\u2019d been recently finished the TransPacific Yacht Race, and on the way back to California, he decided to take a shortcut. Instead of following the current that swoops along the edge of the North Pacific subtropical gyre, he set a course through the still waters of the high-pressure zone at its center. \u201c1997 was the largest El Ni\u00f1o on record,\u201d he recalled years later. \u201cIt had the warmest surface water in the Pacific,\u201d which made the waters extremely smooth and calm. As Moore passed through, he noticed something: trash\u2014specifically plastic trash\u2014all around. This remote part of the ocean was, he\u00a0told Stephen Colbert\u00a0in 2010, \u201ca disgusting plastic cesspool.\u201d Read more. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28846,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28838\/revisions\/28846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}