JC King US Department of the Army for Health, Safety and Environment and Terrance P. Long, Chairman, International Dialogue on Underwater Munitions (IDUM) debate the pro’s and con’s to clean-up at the pentagon.

While governments debate policy on sea dumped weapons they continue at an alarming rate to pollute our ocean and seas. From the first world war up until the 1970’s countries use our oceans and seas as a cheap means to dispose of their excess, obsolete, damaged and time expired munitions. For many years most militaries of the world collected dividends from these temporary disposals at sea. For in fact they never have been dispose of but strategically dumped in every access of our ocean. Some site measured in the 10,000’s of tons that contain known human carcinogens such as TNT which breakdown product, DNT is also a human carcinogens that will persist in the marine environment for 1000’s of years. CHEMSEA has found tumors in the fish with extra fish diseases and stress on the livers and kidneys in the munitions sites while outside the sites no impact was found in the fish. We are in a RACE…when the metals are gone we will have no way to detect the lumps of TNT. Its time for everyone to speak out for recovery of these point source emitter of pollution….. together we can save our seas and ocean…