Matt Gangi is prolific. Sat, Apr 14, 2012 / 10:00 pm / Desert Daze Festival / Moon Block Party / Dillon’s Roadhouse / Palm Springs, CA They were dumped in the water at the war's end, with little thought given to . “Gold” is the type of song that begs you to sing along to its gospel-like chorus. Fri, Feb 10, 2012 / 9:00 pm / The Satellite / Los Angeles, CA Following decades of advances in ocean science and technology, human oceanic activity is increasing and expanding to deeper waters. (9) Currently, 87 States are Parties to what is commonly called the London Convention. Now, for the first time, this explosive book reveals the horrific extent of contamination in the Pacific and the lengths the Pentagon will go to conceal it. Such Liberty ships — the ones that German U-boats didn't sink — delivered the weapons that . ‘gesture is’ is due out on October 2 via Office of Analogue and Digital Epub 2020 Aug 15. FILTER Magazine — GANGI Releases Shining New Single, “Gold” Fri, Sept 27, 2013 / As Fake Estates /  Sway / Aarhus, Denmark 2 In European waters, for example, nations have dumped about 450,000 tons of a mix 3 of dumped chemical and conventional weapons, the most affected area being the Baltic Sea. In the Baltic Sea, chemical weapons, which were For many years, there was little attention to weapons that had been dumped offshore prior to this prohibition. Sat, Dec 5, 2015 / As Actual Values /  U Muzeju (Ambient Installation) / Zagreb, Croatia After self-releasing his first album, A, in a toxic, rent stabilized bedroom in Brooklyn under his own label, Office of Analogue and Digital (OOAAD), the DIY musician packed up his bags and set up shop across the country in Glendale, California. Sat, April 1, 2017 / As Fake Estates / FAULTLINE (Perpetual Dawn) / Box Canyon, Mecca, CA But it seems hundreds of thousands of tonnes of them have been dumped into the sea, and . Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and their Destruction, signed in Paris in January 1993 by all the Baltic States - but not yet entered into force - does not require declaring of chemical weapons dumped in the sea areas prior to 1 January 1985 (paragraph 17 of Article IV). The main chemical agents dumped were blistering agents mustard gas and arsenic-containing compounds Clark I and adamsite. Mustard gas: imminent danger or eminent threat? 2018 Jun 1;314(6):F1166-F1176. Consequently, CW dumpsites once thought impossibly remote to reach are becoming increasingly accessible and dangerous to unaware explorers and workers. Some 21,030 tons of chemical weapons were dumped in the seas off Australia near Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Sat, Nov 5, 2011 / 8:00 pm / Highland Inn Ballroom / Atlanta, GA Mon, May 4, 2009 / 11:00 pm / Spaceland (Spaceland Residency) / Los Angeles, CA (1) Because those sunken ships tended to settle on the seabed largely intact, the CW material they contained remained within a small area. Accounts by U.S. veterans in the accompanying feature of tons of chemical weapons being dumped off Okinawa in autumn 1969 are . (Image: Getty) THE last thing you might expect to encounter exploring the ocean floor is a chemical weapon. Sat, Oct 13, 2012 / Mahall’s 20 Lanes / Cleveland, OH (15) 109th US Congress, “John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007,” Public Law 109-364, Section 314, October 17, 2006. . Bombs dumped in Irish Sea make bridge plan 'too dangerous' This article is more than 1 year old. Sat, Jan 24, 2009 / 10:00 pm / University of Southern California / Los Angeles, CA Some chemicals have . Thurs, Nov 10, 2011 / 10:00 pm / Downtown Grill and Grocery / Hattiesburg, MS the US military) or a particular geographic region. Chemical weapons dumped into the ocean for disposal in the twentieth century pose a continuing environmental and human health risk. Part I. The Cleanup of Chemical and Explosive Munitions Part II. Case Study: The American University Experiment Station (AUES): A Formerly Used Defense Site Appendices Bibliography. Prefix Mag Premiere — Gangi: “Railways Nos. Chemical Weapons Dumped in the Ocean After World War II Could Threaten Waters Worldwide . Edwards suspects that in the islands, where she says there are about 3,000 tons of dumped munitions, many chemical weapons imploded a long time ago, crushed under the higher pressure of deep waters. And through this experience of traveling from city to city, the band is surely bound to be influenced by the various stops on the road. It is not possible to identify, and safely recover or otherwise 'remediate' all of the munitions that have been dumped. Some munitions will continue to be uncovered inadvertently. The Briggs was the last 'known' chemical weapons dumped at sea, and it was right off Cape Canaveral. Originally posted at Prefixmag.com on Oct 2, 2012: For example, Italian scientists have documented 232 instances of mustard-related injuries, including five deaths, suffered by Italian fishermen in the waters off Molfetta (near Bari) between 1946 and 1997. Since the end of the First World War, several countries have dumped at least 1.6 million tons of captured, damaged, obsolete, or unwanted chemical weapons (CW) agents and munitions into the world . Thurs, Dec 29, 2011 / 5:30 pm / FMLY Festival @ Catnap / Los Angeles, CA Sat, Oct 18, 2008 / 11:30 pm / Firehouse 13 / Providence, RI Rates of solubility and hydrolysis and levels of innate toxicity of a chemical agent are used to predict the risk to the marine environments. POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 25, 2009 Sun, Nov 13, 2011 / 11:30 pm / Red 7 / Austin, TX Thurs, Sept 18, 2008 / 10:30 pm / The Knockout  / San Francisco, CA (24) United States Department of Defense, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, Research Related to Effect of Ocean Disposal of Munitions in U.S. Coastal Water. Their widespread use in World War I resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties. Found insideThis book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Once started, the process of neutralizing 500 tons of the . l, 27 Sep. 1993) cited for the first time for the Soviet occupation zone an amount of 70 500 tonnes which contained 62 500 tonnes of munition and 8000 tonnes of containerised chemical warfare agents. A drop in the ocean: the sea-dumping of chemical weapons in Okinawa. And it leaves you feeling as though you could take on just about anything. With few exceptions, nations that previously possessed CW programs now belong to the CWC and thus are faced with the problem of disposing the remnants of their programs. After self-releasing his first album, A, in a toxic, rent stabilized bedroom in Brooklyn under his own label, Office of Analogue and Digital (OOAAD), the DIY musician packed up his bags and set up shop across the country in Glendale, California. 2008 Feb;42(2):237-46. doi: 10.1345/aph.1K445. (23) The mapping relies on a Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file, which utilizes features and programs created by Google™. Chemical weapons that the Army dumped at sea decades ago > finally ended up on shore in the United States. Depth Chargers. (Photo: Courtesy of the International Dialogue on Underwater Munitions) Using the evidence collected, the DoD determined in its report to Congress last year that known sea-disposal sites "do not pose an unacceptable risk to ecological . The opportunity exists for nations that are concerned about keeping the oceans pristine to take the lead to initiate a new multilateral effort to address the problem of CW materials dumped in the seas because the CWC is virtually silent about this issue. Thurs, Oct 16, 2008 / 11:00 pm / Vassar College / Vassar, Poughkeepsie, NY Prevention and treatment information (HHS). (6,7) However, because of sparse records, the total quantity of CW material discarded at sea will never be known precisely, but does include at least 1.6 million tons (this quantity was determined from the summation of all known quantities in the data collected for this map). 8600 Rockville Pike Google Scholar Fri, Oct 5, 2012 / 8:00 / Synchro Studios / Albuquerque, NM "The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of . (5) Interfax, “Ministry: ‘Tonnes’ of chemical weapons ‘buried’ at sea,” Moscow, December 7, 1995. (21) As far as we know, no such declaration has been made as of January 2008. Tues, Oct 21, 2008 / 10:00 pm / Cake Shop (CMJ Showcase) / New York, NY History and geography of chemical weapons dumping at sea: Hundreds of thousands of tons of chemical munitions were disposed off at sea following World War II. Originally posted at SPIN on August 9, 2012: Dąbrowska J, Sobota M, Świąder M, Borowski P, Moryl A, Stodolak R, Kucharczak E, Zięba Z, Kazak JK. OBJECTIVE: In this review we discuss locations, quantity, and types of sea-dumped chemical weapons, related environmental concerns, and human encounters with sea-dumped chemical weapons. Fri, July 18, 2008 / 10:00 pm / Mountain Bar (Human Ear Records show) / Los Angeles, CA Generally, studies assaying sediment and water levels of parent chemical agents and breakdown products at dumpsites have found minimal amounts of relevant chemicals, although arsenic levels are typically higher in dumpsites than reference areas. A major development occurred in 1969, when the US National Academy of Science recommended that ocean dumping be discontinued as a method of disposing chemical agents and munitions. Ann Pharmacother. All data fields that do not contain an entry are undetermined. Tues, May 27, 2008 / 10:00 pm / Dissident Display / Washington, DC Together, they are Gangi, and today we are happy to premiere the music video for their first single, “Railways Nos. For example, in 2006 the US Congress enacted legislation requiring the Secretary of Defense to review historical records and report annually on “the number, size, and probable sites where the Armed Forces disposed of military munitions in coastal waters.” (15) International initiatives, such as Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (also known as the Helsinki Commission or HELCOM), have also been created to investigate these sites. This book provides a comprehensive review of chemical warfare agents, assessing all available evidence regarding the medical, technical and legal aspects of their use. A comprehensive list of dumped chemical weapons (CWs) material does not exist, as the composition of material in many dumping incidents is unknown. Sat, Oct 29, 2011 / 9:00 pm / Bombshelter / Brunswick, ME INTRODUCTION TO HOMELAND SECURITY was the first book to provide practitioners, educators, and students with a comprehensive account of the original and ongoing developments in the Department of Homeland Security’s reorganization, as well ... J Hazard Mater. 47 (2), p. 11. Edwards suspects that in the islands, where she says there are about 3,000 tons of dumped munitions, many chemical weapons imploded a long time ago, crushed under the higher pressure of deep waters. A review of the references for these articles yielded additional relevant sources, with a total of 64 peer-reviewed articles cited in this paper. Found insideSea-Dumped Chemical Weapons: Aspects, Problems and Solutions, NATO ASI Series 7, 1995. David M. Bearden, US Disposal of Chemical Weapons in the Ocean: ... (22) J. Beddington and A.J. Thurs, Mar 15, 2012 / 1:00 pm / Domy Books (88.9 KXLU / The Smell SXSW) Showcase / Austin, TX In the Bal-tic Sea region, large-scale research projects have already been undertaken by the littoral States to locate and assess the sea-dumped chemical weapons in co-operation with the EU and the Disposal of Chemical Weapons in the Ocean: Background and Issues for Congress (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, May 24, 2006). Thurs, Oct 30, 2008 / 11:15 pm / The Mink Backroom / Houston, TX Ian Wilkinson. Saloni Salil. (10) John Aa Tørnes, Øyvind A Voie, Marita Ljønes, Aase M Opstad, Leif Haldor Bjerkeseth, Fatima Hussain, “Investigation and Risk Assessment of Ships Loaded with Chemical Ammunition Scuttled in the Skagerrak,” Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (FFI), November, 2002, p. 13-21. CNS/psychological; organ/tissue specific; other. 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