T&T: potti-patrol

[Scott E. Bulger]

So many points and opinions on this topic have been made, it's hard to add
anything of value, but I'll try..

Someone made the point the problem is boaters that won't take their business
elsewhere.  Well I think the problem is most Americans have become pussies.
We expect everyone else to take care of us and solve our problems.
Something's broken, regulate it.  Someone does you wrong, sue them.  One of
the biggest lessons I've learned traveling from Seattle to Boston through
Central America is how much independence these people have.   If you walk
down a street in LaPaz and cut your big toe on a piece of rebar sticking out
of the ground, it's YOUR fault.  I still have some crazy bump on my toe that
is probably growing some new form of bacteria that will morph into some
gangrene affair.  Anyway, it seems to me if the entire population of
Zihuatanejo's poop is pumped into the limited exchange harbor at the
municipal dock, and yet 2 miles away the luxury hotels have guests from all
over the world swimming in the crystal clear waters, is it possible that
there really isn't a problem at all?  Is it possible that this magnificent
earth and the complex biological process break down the waste into their
basic elements, and walla, a few miles away you can't even measure the
effects?  I don't know, I guess if you get a bunch of Harvard grads down
there with a bunch of multimillion dollar pieces of equipment you can
measure it, but what does that mean?  

Anyway, I don't know what I'm saying other than people and animals on this
planet have been pooping and peeing for thousands of years (millions?).  If
the planet couldn't handle it wouldn't we have been long gone centuries ago?
Do you think they had waste control facilities in all the coastal cities of
the world 200 years ago?  I doubt it, but somehow this species survived.  As
I said when this thread got started, Poop is good, it's natural, and it's
green.  If you can't handle seeing a floater go by every once in a while
maybe the ocean isn't a place where you're going to be happy.  

Scott E. Bulger, ALANUI, Nordhavn 40II, Seattle WA

Disclaimer:  Like our buddy a few days ago, I've had an adult beverage or
two, so this might not reflect my best thinking.