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Short Story Sheads Light on Floating Garbage

Christopher L. Vaughn
March 14, 2008
In 1997, Charles Moore and his crew were returning from competing in the Los Angeles-to-Hawaii sailing race known as the Transpac. Even though they had been sailing for days in one of the most desolate areas of the Pacific Ocean, they found that human contaminates were a common sight.

This brought on the discovery of what is now called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area of the Pacific roughly twice the size of Texas. Plastic flotsam is getting caught in the Northern Pacific Gyre and is quickly becoming an environmental disaster as it is continuously growing.


Enter Jack Regal, captain of the Greenpeace ship Sea-angel. In this short story Captain Regal, with the help of a volunteer diver, bring home the environmental impact to a guest reporter hoping to write a front page story. Using the dialog between Captain Regal and Hawaiian Gazette reporter Miguel Dragos, youŽll learn about the impacts of this flotsam and what we should do to help battle the threat.

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Christopher L. Vaughn

Christopher L. Vaughn, known as C. L. Vaughn in his writing, is a lifetime resident of the Puget Sound and lives with his wife and son in the Sky Valley, an area nestled in the foot hills of the Cascade Mountains. At the age of 17 Chris earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America and then joined the US Army Reserves as a Combat Engineer. He has made a career out of public service through the Security Industry and is employed by the Monroe School District.

Chris currently has several manuscripts underway in the action adventure genre, and several children's book manuscripts finished, as well as several self published short stories. He is a contributor to the online magazine Americanchronicle.com and 21 other affiliated online magazines,a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.