tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882489973553257390Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:25:00 +0000http://beachcombersalert.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882489973553257390.post-6073014281894695795Fri, 25 Sep 2015 00:59:00 +00002015-09-24T17:59:13.666-07:00The October 2015 edition of BeachcombersAlert! is now available here (PDF).http://beachcombersalert.blogspot.com/2015/09/new-edition-of-beachcombersalert.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882489973553257390.post-2827629990269422059Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:02:00 +00002012-12-15T17:24:29.407-08:00 By Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer, Beachcombers’ Alert, curtisebbesmeyer@comcast.net Jim Ingraham, DriftBusters Co., jim.ingraham@wavecable.com Please report flotsam to: www.flotsametrics.com             On March 20, 2012, Canada’s Department of National Defense spotted a derelict vessel on the order of 100-feet long off the Queen Charlotte http://beachcombersalert.blogspot.com/2012/03/tsunami-ghost-boat-drift-according-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (danielle's short shorts)19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882489973553257390.post-6068087092347308513Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:25:00 +00002012-03-25T05:43:48.896-07:00By Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer, Beachcombers’ Alert,  curtisebbesmeyer@comcast.netJim Ingraham, DriftBusters Co., jim.ingraham@wavecable.comMarch 15, 2012        Please report flotsam to www.flotsametrics.comSummary:  Flotsam from Japan’s 311 tsunami have washed ashore during five months (October 1, 2011, through February 29, 2012) totaling 353 Types 1-3, http://beachcombersalert.blogspot.com/2012/03/tsunami-debris-types-1-6-372-landfalls.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (danielle's short shorts)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882489973553257390.post-3501366448211861755Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:57:00 +00002012-02-09T16:57:03.162-08:00a Discussion by E. Kay Gibson  I regularly walk a stretch of beach on North Hutchinson Island in Fort Pierce, Florida, picking up trash that has either been left behind or has washed in or been blown in by the wind and sea.  Where does it come from?  I believe that the short answer for most of the sort of trash that finds its way on to our beaches here in Florida is http://beachcombersalert.blogspot.com/2012/02/theres-more-to-beach-than-sand-beach.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (danielle's short shorts)10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882489973553257390.post-1528165835789887447Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:23:00 +00002012-01-25T06:23:23.097-08:00Tsunami Debris Arrives in America             — Fishing buoys from Japan’s 3.11 tsunami coast                strand from Oregon to Kodiak, Alaskaby Curtis. C. EbbesmeyerAll rights reservedPlease reference as follows:  from blog posted on January 12 at http://beachcombersalert.blogspot.com/2012/01/tsunami-debris-arrives-in-america.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (danielle's short shorts)24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882489973553257390.post-5649948433235334950Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:38:00 +00002011-12-11T17:23:32.884-08:00Drifts of large hypothetical buoys set free by the tsunami as simulated by Jim Ingraham using OSCURS. Six buoy tracks begin off the tsunami coast on March 11, 2011. Using US Navy data and windage parameters from the drift of the Ginoza buoy (see inset), the tracks progress day by day across the Pacific Ocean until October 31, 2011, the last day that data were available. By Halloween, OSCURS http://beachcombersalert.blogspot.com/2011/12/tsunami-debris-halloween-arrival.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882489973553257390.post-3601530066113373799Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:05:00 +00002011-06-15T12:19:37.497-07:00When Will Tsunami Debris Arrive in America?On 11 March 2011, a devastating earthquake (Magnitude 9.0) and resultant tsunami struck northern Japan. The region suffering the greatest tsunami damage extended along the east coast from Chiba prefecture in the south (~35˚ N) to Iwate prefecture in the north (~40˚ N). News coverage of this event showed countless tons of debris washed to sea. Much of http://beachcombersalert.blogspot.com/2011/06/when-will-tsunami-debris-arrive-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882489973553257390.post-5546492200742740519Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:14:00 +00002009-03-13T10:17:58.848-07:00Flotsam by the Foot by Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer A media frenzy erupted over the mystery of seven feet found in sneakers along the shores of British Columbia and Washington state. Between August 2007 and November 2008 six of the feet were found along the Georgia Strait, which separates Vancouver Island from the mainland. The first four reported were right feet, a statistical oddity which fueled http://beachcombersalert.blogspot.com/2009/03/floating-feet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882489973553257390.post-5248603486118861727Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:02:00 +00002009-02-28T11:25:45.009-08:00Calling all sailors; calling all mariners. If you plan to sail the Atlantic, Pacific, or Indian Oceans, consider setting your course through five garbage patches. Nickolai Maximenko (International Pacific Research Center; IPRC) and Peter Niiler (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) analyzed the tracks of nearly 12,000 drifting buoys to calculate the locations of five garbage patches.The amazing http://beachcombersalert.blogspot.com/2009/02/garbage-patches.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882489973553257390.post-1473755724574441143Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:29:00 +00002009-02-20T15:55:08.518-08:00Welcome Beachcombers. I hope you will submit your accounts of flotsam. I’ll do my best to explain them. Some of your accounts may appear in my newsletter the Beachcombers’ Alert.http://beachcombersalert.blogspot.com/2009/02/february-19-2009-welcome-beachcombers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)16