Ghosts of the Pacific by Philip Roy

Author:Philip Roy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ronsdale Press
Published: 2011-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

It wasn’t! I couldn’t believe it. The garbage continued forever in all directions. This was scary. What was going on?

I went inside and looked down through the observation window. The garbage was at least twenty to thirty feet deep. There were chunks here and there, but there was also a kind of sludge in the water, like melted ice, except it was plastic.

A little while later there was a really bad smell on the port side. It was so foul I had to cover my nose. Hollie smelled it and looked worried. I saw netting in the water. Then, I saw carcasses. There were turtles, dolphins, sharks and fish all rotting in the sun. It was a net just like the one I had broken, but nobody had rescued these creatures. Hugh wasn’t here. There were no transmitters on any of the turtles.

I couldn’t get away from the smell. It was so bad I threw up over the side. Then we passed the area and the air was fresh again. But the garbage continued. It continued all day. In the late afternoon we came across another carcass tied up in part of a net. It was the headless torso and part of the legs of a man. I stopped the sub, backed up and stared at the body. If we were back in Canada I would have reported it. But who would I call here? Who would come all the way out here for part of a dead body? Nobody. Nobody would care. As I stared at the corpse I felt that something had changed inside of me. I didn’t know what it was exactly and couldn’t have put it in words, but I didn’t feel there was much difference between the plastic garbage and the dead body. I wasn’t sure that was the right way to feel about it but I couldn’t help it. Everything here was dead. Everything was rotting. What was the difference?

Well, it was a body. It had been somebody. I should have felt sad for the person. It was sad. And yet, it looked like just another piece of garbage. The garbage really scared me. I was afraid that Nanuq was right; the sea was dying. The sea was certainly dying here. We were killing its creatures and we were dumping our garbage into it. We were killing it.

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