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that was the clue. Further research conâ€" firmed what Dr. Cross suspected: overfishâ€" ing was causing the problem of the loss of sealife, ‘There‘s been very heavy gill netting â€" they get the whole fleet out and there‘s thousands® of kilometres of gill netting. 'I‘hay'mkillingeverythingtondepthofw feet. And they‘re only now ing to the South Pacific because tlwy"vl:vg:ged out the North Pacific.‘" The main offenders are Japan, Korea and Taiwan, he said. ‘‘People taik about the ocean as if it has hl;l:tl;t mm of food fr.sll everything e they‘re pretty ile systems. You only get lumtro'- food close to land. Out in the main body of the ocean it is quite possible to take out all the life." As for the &ifliwmon â€" well,~ that‘s a problem Dr. has encountered “It’aoumwmnfimtwgowrwg. and the accuracy of the o method is remarkâ€" all;lg'm Mul "nidtthniveuitydWat-bo e ufioermg essor. And while letmmluonthomp,the biggest lessons were about what society is doiwtodutroyouroeaana. We thought the Pacific would be teemâ€" ing with life. But once we left Vancouver we saw no sea life for three weeks. There ;vmnodolphina,nofishmdnlmstnom "Apparently that‘s a recent ch â€" thatuledtobeoneoftlmrichestar:zgelt's a change that‘s been noticed in the last "We didn‘t see a single whale in the Pacific, but I‘ve seen them in the Atlantic. Andwewentpastnllthefirmerwha]ing areas. ‘"It was only when we got within 500 mfluflo{flawa‘i;dthatnfi':v;lalotof seabirds, squid i . We started togetdolphinumfiflbut.Wemrted touichtuna,whiehwuanicecbangein ou;dj.:f‘”luhf there ut i ife was missing, were other items to watch out for. “Onethingyoudolnlllthewayto Hawnfiisnrbogaâ€"mthingfi-omliule creamers to coffe and lids up to plastic garbage cans nndutp. hwn‘:inin, and the odd lightbulb even. It‘s all floating there on the surface. And we saw lots of fishing nets." Some of them were gill drift nets, and that was the clne Rurthar rasnoush aoe ’",â€"‘:â€""-uvl-vaumwuf;e electronic guidance mt. opting. the centuriesâ€"old of & sextant 1 BP Cotodin ib‘ it ofi .. AB . 13 children. In she says, We have a ’"“'Yw-olmo is determined to sail around the world with her father." Cross and his friends opted not to use But Cilla sails herself, "Wohfinomngg inmblm”t he recalls, "M!Mhfigamdawithhig w«emmdfiwenm,%',:,, following the trip on a sabatfi¢al Jeave in New Zealand, &w:fifl’."g" Goose" as it is i j cWw Zealand while Dr. Croperdegtore whiat in J an encore. Wife Cilla and the children took the easy way out â€"â€" they flew first to Hawaii then on mNmM.gn'.-liu.tmmm small boat with children, lai as a mother she did have to consider their ‘flf#-;lhhcific%nnmhenm mean nlace < way. Hawaii .for one. Then ‘Chri "or foree hap e uen .. _ Uf course, there were a few stops on the "We "C "ays, we have a is determined to sail tâ€"Of course, Tonga. and so do the Sea. From there he could head to the Mediterranean, and rest awhile on the shores of Greece and Italy. > Then it would be off to the Caribbean to complete the voyage. ’A_toughlifeindoed,butsomebodyhneo do it. oo me on oo ooo eereng cce some of the garbage is ugly but not harmful, but the chemicals we‘re putting inhdlre also getting swept through that whole system." South of Hawaii, heading to New Zeaâ€" land, the ocean life returns. “Oumlmlyinginthebunkmda crew yelled, ‘Holy Cow, squid!‘ We looked up and there were these squid projectiles coming at us." The squid were flying off the tops of waves in an attempt to elude tuna or maki maki which eat them. That day the crew wutrutadfiouofthemfooddeliuciu, Chinese style, and right out of the ocean. One passenger on the trip was a foldâ€"up bicycle. Dr. Cross describes himself as an avid cyclist since university days, and when the boat docked, he could be seen exploring tropical islands by pedal power. Freshly back from New Zealand, he is considering another trip, if he can get the time off in the next year or so. HaoouldtakehislitfleboattoSingapore, then wait for the northeasterly monsoons gogivehiuxgshvpgtailvindwtheked ‘Those currents show that what we put in(theseunlongoursbau)nreswept armnd“thi wbglfl ocean system. Maybe before. On a trip across the Atlantic a few years ago, he noticed the coast of Ireland was cluttered with Irving oil containers which had travelled by current from Canada‘s east coast. _ In the Pacific Ocean, "the currents come $: Living out his dream WATERLOO CHRONICLE, wenwnespay SEPTEMBER 27, 1989 ______ 100 CHRONICLE, wEepueEspay se â€" PAGE 11