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In order to educate the public about the plight of our trashy oceans i have to educate myself first

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Twentyone steel containers each forty feet long tore loose and plunged into the north pacific

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Five of those containers held highpriced nike sports shoes bound for the basketball courts and city streets of america

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To be a successful scientist it goes without saying that you have to be smart

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After the shoes went into the pacific ocean and later started to wash ashore in the pacific northwest ebbesmeyer saw that they could be used as a probe to study the circulation patterns of the ocean

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He hunted down the captain of the ship to determine the exact location of the shoe spill obtained the shoe identification numbers from nike and then traced the shoes back to the original spill as they were discovered on the coast of north america

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It is primarily a study of the objects released into the oceans both accidentally and deliberately and how the oceans work to concentrate or distribute the floating materials

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It is a lively funny look at a life spent doing serious science in an eccentric way