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Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man`s Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science

Curtis Ebbesmeyer is no ordinary scientist. He`s been a consulting oceanographer for multinational firms and a lead scientist on international research expeditions, but he`s never held a conventional academic appointment. He seized the world`s imagination as no ordinary scientist could when he and his worldwide network of beachcomber volunteers traced the ocean`s currents using thousands of sneakers and plastic bath toys spilled from storm-tossed freighters. Now, for the first time, Ebbesmeyer tells the story of his lifelong struggle to solve the sea`s mysteries, and shares his most surprising discoveries. He recounts how flotsam has changed the course of history-leading Viking mariners to safe harbours, Columbus to the New World, and Japan to open up to the West – and how it may even have made the origin of life possible. He explores the vast floating garbage patches and waste-heaped junk beaches that collect the flotsam and jetsam of industrial society. Finally, he reveals the music-like mathematical order in oceanic gyres and the threats that global warming and disintegrating plastic waste pose to the seas …and to us.

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