The sludge cocktail people drop onto the streets and in parking lots always looks crummy, but when you talk about how it floats down into our oceans it's just plain gross. I think your trash photos help raise awareness about the junk drifting down streets and drain pipes are awesome. If we saw this trash on a pristine beach most people would be shocked. It's also another reminder that it's not just what we dump on the streets, but all the hidden chemicals and toxins in our everyday products! Cheers to organic farming!

hey Swain, good job !!!

Aloha Chris Swain and Congrats! I suppose you have undertaken both the greatest, most daily rewarding activity of your life(nothing like live fieldwork to make Mr. Murphy a constant companion!)and , evidently from the photos, one of the worst, most disturbing! Out here in Maui I think people might be surprised just how poor our drinking water really is upon close laboratory examination,a fact local friends that do clinical work in the testing have sobered me up with. Our annual precip. rates and tropical isolation do not necessarily correlate with multi-sourced reality. And home water purification filter systems we commonly use locally don't do much for bio/chem intruders in the ppm neighborhoods. Mahalo for extricating yourself and we as well out of "the box" with the truth! I only hope we can run further with your torch....

Hi Chris, This seems like a really great project. Best of luck for all the swimming - rather you than me. I think the ideas behind your adventure are very interesting and I hope you make the impact you deserve. We are also travelling along the Atlantic coastline - but by land not sea. We are following the one meter contour line, predicted to be the new coastline in 100 years if sea levels continue to rise. We are also creating a network of schools in low lying communities around the edge of the ocean. I wonder if we are visiting any of the same schools? You can see what we are all about at www.atlanticrising.org Good luck and perhaps we will meet you on the way! Lynn