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Why would anchoring a debris collection platform be a bad idea? Water flows and currents in certain areas can be quite predictable. Something like one of those
by riskable 8y ago
Why would anchoring a debris collection platform be a bad idea? Water flows and currents in certain areas can be quite predictable.
Something like one of those anemones that sits at the edges of of sea shelfs collecting organic matter as it passes by... Relying on the current.
- notatoad 8y agoi don't really know anything about this, but my first guess would be that dropping an anchor to the depth required in the middle of the pacific ocean is completely impractical
- crispinb 8y agoAs notatoad notes: it's entirely impractical. There's no such thing as anchoring in the depths (3-5000m IIRC) prevailing in the Pacific gyre hosting the 'garbage patch'. This alone would require a revolution in marine engineering. The frankly silly idea was quickly walked back, but it was an early & vivid demonstration of the hapless naiveity underlying the whole enterprise.