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Jetsam

The casting overboard of goods from a vessel, by its owner, under exigent circumstances in order to provide for the safety of the ship by lightening its cargo load.

jetsam

goods, thrown into the sea from a ship, that sink and remain under water. See FLOTSAM, LAGAN.

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With my producer Luke Marsh, I travelled to Texel to make Flotsam & Jetsam, a short film about the lives of these extraordinary men and women and hear about their connection to the sea.

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But what about deep immersion on the other side of the line, the boundless Other full of our cast offs and castaways, flotsam, jetsam, and its own unnamed creatures?

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Also back and busy are beach cops Flotsam and Jetsam, who are as skilled in surfer lingo as they are in apprehending criminals.

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What artifacts do exist are little more than the flotsam and jetsam that he had in his pocket when he was shot.

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This slowly rotating vortex draws in flotsam and jetsam, 80 per cent of which is believed to have originated from land, circulating it for decades and causing major problems for marine life.

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A Whilst the beach-going publics' contribution to the flotsam and jetsam rubbish which is ceremoniously washed up, dragged out and washed up again shouldn't be ignored, it's clearly dhows and ships negligently dumping their waste which cause the majority of the bag trash tide.