RE: [Paddlewise] [Fwd: Manhattan Island Swim]

I met a team of NY Harbor divers on a dive boat here in Florida. This was
their first dive apart from the Ny Harbor.

After the first tank they were absolutely astonished by the marine life. In
all their diving in New York, they'd never seen a fish!

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From: owner-paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net
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Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 10:07 AM
To: paddlewise
Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] [Fwd: Mahattan Island Swim]


Yuuuuch!

An article in New York magazine a few months ago chronicled the
misadventures of the NYPD unit that dives NYC waters looking for evidence of
crimes, etc. (ie, people who's boots are, um, a little too heavy).  The
article quoted some sort of authority on the subject as saying that the
waters around Manhattan, particularly the East River, are the chemical
equivalent of "liquid fecal matter."  If people want to swim in that, hey,
that's their business.  Not me, thank you.

FWIW, out of five recent paddles in Western Long Island Sound, on two of
those paddles I saw some form of medical waste floating in the water, and on
one I saw a huge fuel slick (just outside Rye!) and several dead birds
floating in the water.  The other two times were relatively normal -- just
the usual rednecks in motor boats, constant noise from airplanes flying
over, and perpetual sirens on the shore, etc. . . .  I'm up in Maine now.
It's quiet here. . . and clean.

Mark

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