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5th annual Paddle for Clean Water
September 13th 2008 Golden Gardens Park
This is an invitation to join others in our mission for clean water. The Surfrider Foundation’s Washington Chapters are organizing a Paddle Out for Clean Water on September 13th 2008 at Golden Gardens Park in Seattle. You are invited to paddle out on surfboards, kayaks, standup paddleboards, canoes, and etcetera. The purpose of this event is to raise awareness of the state of our water quality, the issues that are making it so, and what we can do to help rectify the situation. We will also be educating on the Seattle Chapter’s Sludge Campaign and showing our support to Save Sand Point.
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Plastic Purgatory ... A profile on Ocean Pollution
By Chrissy Bailey
In August 1997, Captain Charles Moore stumbled across what has come to be known as the “Eastern Garbage Patch” while returning to Southern California from Hawaii after a sailing race. The Eastern Garbage Patch has come to exist in a portion of the Pacific Ocean called the North Pacific subtropical gyre; sailors called it “the doldrums” and they steered clear. So did the ocean’s top predators: the tuna, sharks, and other large fish that required livelier waters, flush with prey. The gyre is more like a desert—a slow, deep, clockwise-swirling vortex of air and water caused by a mountain of high-pressure air that lingers above it. Depressed and stunned, Moore sailed for a week through bobbing, toxic debris trapped in a purgatory of circling currents.
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Seattle Surfrider now has bags
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Melanie M. (our Volunteer Coordinator) & Annie L. (Our Seretary)
Model our new bags at the Clean Water Classic
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The Seattle Surfrider Foundation has now joined the reusable bag revolution. We also have a new chapter t-shirt design, fresh off the presses. Pick one or both up at the next Surfrider meeting or event. |
SPRING 2008 Coastal Current available
Coastal Current is our quarterly publication that highlights and reflects on Northwest chapters' accomplishments, goals, ocean policy and upcoming events.
Click here to view PDF file.
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