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Technology Helps Determine Extent of Seafloor Dumpsite NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—An area encompassing more than 36,000 acres containing more than 27,000 “barrel-like” images lying on the seafloor, stretching between Catalina Island and the coast off Los Angeles, has been documented by marine scientists. The discovery was made during an expedition led by University of California–San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Although widely reported in the media that the barrels contain the harmful chemical compound DDT, that information has not been confirmed. Eric Terrill, director o...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be more than 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT dumped off the Southern California coast near Catalina Island, where a massive underwater toxic waste site dating back to World War II has long been suspected. The 27,345 “barrel-like" objects were captured in high-resolution images as part of a study by researchers at the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. They mapped more than 56 square miles (145 square kilometers) of seafloor between Santa Catalina Island and the Los...

2021-05-01 22:05:59 GMT2021-05-02 06:05:59(Beijing Time) Xinhua English by Julia Pierrepont III LOS ANGELES, May 1 (Xinhua) -- In the latest chapter in a decades-old pollution scandal that spawned one of the worst toxic waste sites in America, ocean scientists said early this week that they had found approximately 27,000 barrels on the ocean floor in Los Angeles's coastal waters that were believed to contain DDT, the toxic pesticide banned in the United States in 1972. Prompted by widespread reports of historic toxic dumping and lingering concerns from researchers and scientists, Unive...

California’s legacy of DDT waste: underwater dump site uncovers a toxic history Aaron Cantu in Los Angeles © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: David Valentine/AP The discovery of tens of thousands of underwater barrels containing what scientists believe to be chemical waste has raised alarm and reopened scrutiny into a history of toxic dumping that persisted off the California coast into the 1970s. A team of scientists announced this week that they had found more than 25,000 containers, many of which they believe to be DDT waste, which has been linked to cancer and dis...

The expedition was the first of its kind to lay bare the scale of the offshore dumping that occurred for decades, and its size “was a surprise to everyone who has worked with the data and sailed at sea”, said Eric Terrill, the chief scientist of the expedition and director of the Marine Physical Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, at a press conference about the findings. “As we started to run the survey and realized what we were beginning to observe on the seafloor, it was staggering to see the spatial extent.” Scientists who spoke with the Guardian express...