The Hidden History In Hawaii’s Massive Underwater Ship Graveyard

PCBs have been banned globally because they’re “some of a many dangerous pollutants around,” according to a 2012 matter by Emily Jeffers of a Center for Biological Diversity, a organisation that joined the Sierra Club and BAN in petitioning a EPA

“They leach from fallen ships into a sea and amass in a bodies of fish, dolphins and whales,” she wrote. “Our oceans should never be used as a dump for poison.”

According to the petition

The EPA eventually denied a petitioners’ requests

The Navy puts any vessel by a “rigorous cleaning process” before falling it, Tauyan told HuffPost. She pronounced this includes removing all PCBs, trash, mercury- or fluorocarbon-containing materials, fuel and other potentially damaging substances.

Townsend, however, is not convinced. “There’s no volume of cleaning that can pledge it’s all gone,” she said.

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