PMS: Project Presentation

PMS:Pollution and Maritime Safety

A “Guess-what” GameMaria Mika Olivares, Gabriela Guapache,

and Sara Medina

Before We Start:Key terms to keep in mind

Yes, you might want to write these down

Inadequate Protection

Bottom TrawlerPhotograph by Brian J. Skerry

Bottom trawling—a form of net fishing that scrapes the ocean floor—often damages habitats by ripping up coral reefs.

Now banned in many countries, bottom trawlers also collect large amounts of bycatch that is simply thrown back to sea or left to die.

Overfishing

Cod Caught in a Net, Gulf of Maine Photograph by Bill Curtsinger

Cod and other commercial ground fish are caught in a net in the Gulf of Maine.

Our appetite for fish is wreaking havoc on aquatic populations worldwide.

The conservation group World Wildlife Fund predicts that if cod fisheries continue to be fished at current rates, there will be no cod left by 2022.

"Seventy-five percent of fisheries are overfished," says marine biologist Enric Sala. "If nothing changes, all fisheries will have collapsed by 2050." The solution, says Sala—a National Geographic Society fellow—is involving all levels of society, from consumers to policy makers.

"The solutions exist, we just need the political will to implement them at [a] large scale," he adds.

Shipping

ErikaPhoto taken 12 December 1999 Erika

sinking. ©BELGA/AFP

Since the Erika’s disastrous sinking, Parliament is seeking to improve their ships.

The "Erika III" package, aimed at protecting Europe's coasts from maritime disasters and improving passenger and crew safety, was adopted by Parliament.

Oil Spills

Oil-Coated Crab, LebanonPhotograph by Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images

With the area's preponderance of fossil fuel-related commerce, the semi-enclosed Mediterranean Sea is particularly susceptible to oil spills.

International animosities in the region aggravate the problem.

This crab is negotiating an oil-fouled beach polluted when Israeli planes bombed a power station in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2006.

Eutrophication

Not a PaintingPhotographer unknown

This blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) is the result of agricultural fertilizer seeping into a small lake in Finland.

Blue-green algae forms a thick mat near the surface of the water, suffocating life underneath it.

Mainland Pollution

Beach Trash, Equatorial GuineaPhotograph by Joel Sartore

The world's oceans and beaches are strewn with manmade flotsam, much of it plastics, like this doll's leg on a black-sand beach on Equatorial Guinea's Bioko Island.

Plastics are extremely durable and can drift on ocean currents for decades, leaching potentially toxic chemicals as they slowly decompose.

Nuclear Wastes

Facts"The Army now admits that it secretly

dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels.“

"Mustard gas can be fatal. When exposed to seawater, it forms a concentrated, encrusted gel that lasts for at least five years, rolling around on the ocean floor, killing or contaminating sea life."

Now the Real Deal: PMSNot that, silly! What are you thinking?We naturally mean Pollution and Maritime

Safety

We Will Talk About…Origin of the IssueCurrent State of the problemSolutions: What do people think?The Future if Nothing changes…Where is it Happening?- Japan, Trinidad and Tobago, Seychelles,

Latin AmericaHow do Politics and Culture Affect the

problem?- IMO Regulations- TED Talk video

Reflection Time“Capt. Charles Moore first discovered the Great

Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our sea”

In GoogleDocs, you will find a document named “PMS - TED Talk Reflection Prompt”

It will guide you on your quest to write an illuminated reflection on all you’ve learned today.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/capt_charles_moore_on_the_seas_of_plastic.html

Good luck!

When in doubt…

just ask Flipper

Sourceshttp://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/p

hotos/oceans-overfishing/#/fish-net_158_600x450.jpg

http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/photos/ocean-pollution/?q=euthrophication#/pollution11-congealed-tallow-houston_16641_600x450.jpg

http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2005/11/1/135126/626

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