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History Channel: Ed Leedskalnin

Excerpt from a History Channel show (produce by KPI) in which one of the oddest and most perplexing structures in the US--if not the world! is explored.

Bulldozing the Bottom of the Sea

It is a wonderfully clear expression, used by a U. S. biologist about the impact of bottom trawling. "Imagine using a bulldozer to catch songbirds for food — that's what it's like," marine biologist Sylvia Earle says. "After a trawler has gone by, it looks like a superhighway, it's just flat. Nobody's home. A few fish may swim in and out but the residents, those that occupy the substrate, they're just smothered, they're crushed. It's like paving them over."

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