A large amount of the tsunami debris expected to wash up on B.C.shores will likely be discovered and cleaned up by volunteers,according to a research scientist with the federal fisheriesdepartment. "There's going to be a coordinated effort on our coast led by theprovincial government and probably by local communities, working inconjunction with the federal government," said Richard Thomson, asenior research scientist at the Institute of Ocean Sciences inSidney, B.C. "They've set up a task force, they're trying to prepare for theinundation of materials that come to shore, but a lot of it's goingto be done by volunteers in coastal communities." Thomson told Rick Cluff, host of CBC Radio One's The Early Edition , local surfers and shoreline clean-up groups will likely be on thefront lines as debris continues to come to shore. "I've already talked to people .. who surf on the coast ofVancouver Island," he said. "Those people and other volunteers areon a daily basis cleaning up the debris, so I'm assuming thatthey're going to be inundated with this stuff but they're thereand keen to help clean up." 'Not just a little patch' Experts say several million tonnes of tsunami debris are driftingacross the Pacific Ocean toward Canada's West Coast. "The main core of the debris is located about a couple thousandkilometres north of Hawaii, but it's not just a little patch,"Thomson said. "It's stretched out about 6,000 kilometres in the east-westdirection and about 2,000 kilometres in the north-south direction." Small items, like bottles and buoys , have already reached B.C.'s shores, as has the rear section of acube van containing a Harley-Davidson motorcycle . Thomson says what's washed ashore already are lighter items beingcarried along by wind and waves. "The winds are going to carry typically 30 times stronger than thecurrents. The stuff that's skipping along the top of the water,that's arriving already," he said. "It's pretty obvious from the Japanese squid vessel that came toshore that some of the material that's being carried by the windhas made it across the Pacific Ocean in really rapid time." 'There's no comparison' He said debris is showing up much sooner than expected and it'slikely just the beginning. "I think there's so much debris that's been put into the ocean ....The probability tells you that stuff is just going to surprise youand that's what's happening to us." While some observers have compared the impact of the tsunami on theocean to the Exxon Valdez oil disaster, Thomson says it's aninaccurate comparison. "There's no comparison .... The advantage we have with the debriscoming from the tsunami is it's hard. You can pick it up. You canactually bend over and pick it up. It's not going to soil theecology, in a sense." Officials are using computer models to track the debris, updatingwind patterns and ocean currents on a daily basis, but Thomson saysfiguring out where the debris will end up is a guessing game. Someitems will sink or break up along the way, making it incrediblydifficult to predict an exact date and location for the arrival ofdebris on local shores. I am an expert from cold-rollformingmachine.com, while we provides the quality product, such as China Double Layer Forming Machine , China Curving Machine, Double Layer Forming Machine,and more.
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