tailieunhanh - Coastal Pollution: Effects on Living Resources and Humans - Chapter 6

gày của Tàu Tall Các sáng mặt trời buổi chiều WS trên cột buồm và gian lận của năm tập hợp các tàu thuyền lớn Có lẽ đó Sẽ không bao giờ trùng lặp. Nó Đã được 3 tháng 7 năm 1976, ngay trước lễ kỷ niệm hai trăm năm của Tuyên ngôn Độc lập của Hoa Kỳ, và tàu cao từ tất cả các quốc gia trên thế giới với truyền thống đi biển HAD lắp ráp tại Sandy Hook Bay | 6 Anoxia in Coastal Waters The Day of the Tall Ships The afternoon sun was bright on the masts and riggings of an aggregation of major sailing ships that will probably never again be duplicated. It was July 3 1976 the eve of the bicentennial celebration of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America and tall ships from all the nations of the world with seafaring traditions had assembled in Sandy Hook Bay within sight of the skyline of New York City awaiting the grand procession past the Statue of Liberty scheduled for the next morning. Some of those magnificent vessels were anchored for the night within a stone s throw of the Sandy Hook Laboratory a unit of the National Marine Fisheries Service with a large program in ocean pollution research. It was the weekend and most of the laboratory staff members and their families had gathered on the lawns and the broad porches of the early 20th century buildings occupied by the agency to picnic drink beer and watch this once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. Research problems were far away and for once the almost inevitable shop talk indulged in by scientists was muted. The afternoon passed pleasantly and the significance of the celebration was duly noted by the good federal employees of the lab. Early the next morning sails were unfurled and the ships sailed away on the outgoing tide to their rendezvous in the lower Hudson River where the country s President and an array of dignitaries waited to greet them. As if to reinforce these human events of epic proportions that were taking place in the harbor a massive oceanic event was developing simultaneously in continental shelf waters off the Middle Atlantic States. A gigantic bloom of algae the armored dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos see Figure extending at its maximum along more than 100 miles of coastline from Long Island to Delaware and as far as 50 miles seaward was beginning to affect and to kill marine life. First reports of mass mortalities of fish and .