THERE IS *A LOT* OF OCEAN DUMPING - VARIOUS MATERIAL FROM RADIOACTIVE, CHEMICAL ARMAMENTS, OFFSHORE OILFIELD DRILLING WASTES, TONS OF PHARMACEUTICALS... CRUISE SHIP TRASH & SEWAGE...S
Army admits secretly dumping 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents, 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines, rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste into the sea
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=22469
A Survey of Offshore Oilfield Drilling Wastes and Disposal Techniques to Reduce the Ecological Impact of Sea Dumping - These cuttings piles smother seabed life and remain toxic for many years, mainly because of the hydrocarbons they contain.
http://www.offshore-environment.com/drillcuttings.html
India's Waterways A Toxic Stew of Pharmaceutical Chemicals Dumped from Big Pharma Factories - There's something else Big Pharma doesn't want you to know about its drug operations in India: Big Pharma's manufacturing facilities dump millions of doses of toxic pharmaceutical chemicals directly into India's waterways.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/arti...icle_16616.cfm
Marine Scientists Studying Great Pacific Garbage Patch
http://earthfirst.com/tag/oceans/
The Legality of Dumping of Nuclear Waste - The Cold War also left a nuclear legacy on the seafloor in the form of reactors and warheads, many of them from lost or scuttled submarines... Throughout the Cold War, both the Soviet and American militaries lost or intentionally sank nuclear weapons and reactors at sea.
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/...s/dumping2.htm
Ocean Dumping - *HUMAN SEWAGE*
The motivation for banning ocean dumping gained momentum when contaminated wastes from sewage-derived microorganisms were discovered at public beaches, shellfish beds were contaminated with toxic metals, and fish were infected by lesion-causing parasites.
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explor...g/dumping.html
SANITATION, COASTAL [Accra]
The surf zone turned this colour after one of the regular discharges of untreated nightsoil!
http://duncanmarasanitation.blogspot...n-dumping.html
Cruise Ship Dumping
I remember taking a boat up the Amazon years ago, and I watched in horror as one of the boat's workers literally swept a week's worth of trash into the Amazon River. Everything went: bottles, condoms, batteries, food trash.
http://www.gadling.com/2006/12/13/cruise-ship-dumping/
Each cruise ship carries an average of 3,000 people and produces as much sewage and waste as a mid-sized city.
http://www.kahea.org/cruiseships/
Cruise ship waste: All ashore?
The cruise ships that come to Seattle each summer bring something you don't find advertised in glossy brochures -- millions of gallons of human waste.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/303063_cruise09.html
Cruise on down to our dumping ground
Vancouver has wooed the Mercury away from Seattle this year, becoming the 1,900-passenger ship's home port for the 2007 Alaska cruise season.
http://www.straight.com/article-8644...dumping-ground