Island that was a Paradise of Pacific Destroyed

In July of 2003, when he/she was rotating a documentary on the islands western Hawaiians, Jean-Michel's team Cousteau met with a devastation show until then never imagined. On the beaches of the distant island of Laysan, to thousands of kilometers of any inhabited place, he/she expanded an endless trail of bottles, lighters and remains of computers. Although the island was absolutely deserted and in the middle of Pacific, the members of the team found objects coming from 52 countries; from toothbrushes or golf balls, until the wing of a commercial airplane.

Months later, own Jean-Michel Cousteau carried out a tour all over the world to explain the devastation of which had been witness: We are getting scared. he/she said. The threat is becoming in fact." Reasonable garbage from all over the world had arrived at the remote islands of the Polynesian after being dragged by the oceanic currents during years. Even. as same Cousteau explained. they found "objects that had not been manufactured from 1960."

It is "impressive. he/she explained - they even asked us us to sample that there was not trucado the pictures." "But this demonstrates the truth. We have kilometers of beaches like these. It is something infernal. We find televisions, computers. If there had been people living in the island you could understand it, but it was uninhabited."

Besides the heaps of garbage, during the days that remained in Laysan, the team of Cousteau found seabird cadavers for the whole island. The petty objects of plastic were creating authentic havoc among the population of birds. The adults confused the attractive objects with fish of colors and after capturing them they regurgitated them on the peaks of their breedings, raising the death toll in way escalofriante. In hardly one week, the team of Cousteau picked up hundreds of these objects, especially lighters.