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What happens to cargo containers lost at sea? [video]

Posted by / July 18, 2014

The oceans of the world haven’t gotten any calmer just because we’re shipping millions of cargo containers across them each year, so it’s inevitable a few thousand annually end up at the bottom of the sea.

What happens then, though?

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute has been studying one of the twenty-four dumped by the Med Taipei in 2004, where some creatures have begun calling it home.

Full story at Huffington Post.

Oceanography of the unnatural world.

Graphics credit: Canva

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  • colin thakur

    Brilliant and useful work. Thank You!

  • Might the contents of the container have an influence on the area surrounding it?