Powerful typhoon produced historic pollution in the world's oceans
23.10.2013 09:04
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Japón (AP)
Winds near 200 mph and 400 millimeters of rain per square meter struck Fukushima - Japan, a city that has a nuclear power plant, which produced the largest release of radioactivity into the ocean.
The sailor Ivan Macfadyen told reporters his experience in this human and natural disaster, and the following are some ideas of what he said:
“We hardly saw any living things. We saw one whale, sort of rolling helplessly on the surface with what looked like a big tumour on its head. It was pretty sickening. I’ve done a lot of miles on the ocean in my life and I’m used to seeing turtles, dolphins, sharks and big flurries of feeding birds. But this time, for 3000 nautical miles there was nothing alive to be seen.”
Macfadyen also commented: "part of it was the aftermath of the tsunami that hit Japan a couple of years ago. The wave came in over the land, picked up an unbelievable load of stuff and carried it out to sea. And it's still out there, everywhere you look".
