Atomic Waste Dumps Dangerous?

The sighting of living creatures even at the bottom of the Challenger Deep by the crew of Trieste has proved, according to the oceanographers that there is a mixing of the waters even at this depth.

This confirmed findings by oceanographic ships during the IGY in the Eastern Pacific that cold water, sinking to the bottom in the Antarctic regions, flowed northward at the rate of about seven miles per year towards the equator, where it apparently rises, not to the

surface, but to flow back south at a mid-level.

To check on fears that the flow might be faster in some areas— there is a suspicion that it might be—and that atomic waste dumped in the ocean’s deeps might be brought to the upper levels into the habitat of fish consumed by humans much more rapidly than previously thought, there is likely to be a further major ocean sampling pro ject launched in the Western Pacific in the next two years.