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From the article: > A ship towed the U-shaped barrier from San Francisco to the patch in September to trap the plastic. But during the four months at sea, the
by patsplat 7y ago
From the article:
> A ship towed the U-shaped barrier from San Francisco to the patch in September to trap the plastic. But during the four months at sea, the boom broke apart under constant waves and wind and the boom was not retaining the plastic it caught.
- Aromasin 7y agoIt's almost like products need multiple iterations under real life test conditions before they become functional designs!
- vectorEQ 7y ago:s what are you talking about man, deploy to production already!
- mattkrause 7y agoHere's the actual incident report: https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/system-001-learnings-root-causes-summarized/ https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/system-001-learnings-roo... It has a few goofy phrases ("unscheduled learning opportunity") but it seems like a pretty solid writeup. Their subsequent update also says they recovered both pieces of the boom and ~2 tons of garbage, so not a smashing success but it also could have been much worse.