{"id":721,"date":"2016-06-12T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birgit-lutz.de\/en\/?p=721"},"modified":"2016-06-12T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T16:28:10","slug":"the-sea-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birgit-lutz.de\/en\/2016\/06\/12\/the-sea-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sea Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSC05967\"We have fought. And won. It took us four long hours to bring down an orange coloured sea monster, laying on a beach in Spitsbergen. We did that for our Plastic Monitoring Project for the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. Afterwards we were tired, dirty, and smelled like a monster ourselves. But we had it on board. Monster 0, Antigua 1!!!<\/p>\n

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It is the biggest garbage object ever taken from a beach onto the SV Antigua – and it probably will be the biggest for a long time. With EL Rolf Stange we\u00a0had chosen to clean a beach at the Reinsdyrflya, and arriving there we saw that the beach was not too polluted. The usual fishing nets and plastic pieces were laying around, but less than on other beaches. But: There was also an orange subject, which was not easy to identify: A snarl of plastic and other ropes, worked into the beach, covered with sand and stones. Not a fishing net, more a rope fender. Something that would prevent friction between ships. It was 5,60 to 1,80 meters big, and it seemed like poured-in-place in the beach.<\/p>\n