literally and figuratively. yet 16 months of scouring the priority search zone yielded nothing. not a single shred of evidence, not a one. is it possible there s floating wreckage out there and we just haven t seen it? as time goes on, it s very hard to say that. eventually the stuff washes up. something washes up. finally, in july 2015, something did wash up. debris found off the coast of reunion island in the indian ocean. thousands of miles from the search area, beach cleaners found debris on a remote island near madagascar. what they found was an extremely intricate part of the wing. it s known as the flapper on. french investigators later confirmed it was from the missing plane. the first real discovery in a
human history, period. this is all uncharted territory, literally and figuratively. yet 16 months of scouring the search zone yielded nothing. not a single shred of evidence. not a single one. as time goes on, it is very hard to say that. eventually, the stuff washes up. something washes up. finally in july 2015, something did wash up. debris found off the coast reunion island in the indian ocean thousands of miles from the search area, beach cleaners found debris on a remote island near madagascar. what they found was an extremely intricate part of the wing. it is known as the flapper on. french investigators later confirmed, it was from the missing plane.
people that i m turning. rubbish was also often from end to the street especially guesthouses and hotels think that s why from our ship we organized a rubbish collection for them on daily visits to clean us collect the garbage and bring gets to the small dump on the outskirts of in the village it s. also goes into schools to raise awareness among children. some of the locals stayed with the project like isaac one jenji one of the four regular beach cleaners who has walked with. since last year it will stay there what has become easier since kenya plastic bags but this alone doesn t solve the problem now we re almost in shipments are high again and i can probably say we found another ten tons of rubbish so that probably means
all the equipment has been packed up. the beach cleaners are not doing their job right now. they were told to get off the beaches. all because of this storm which is pretty disorganized right now according to ken graham in the national weather service new orleans office. what is it doing right now? touchdown 5 i it s really . i think the biggest threat the next 24 hours is heavy rain. reporter: do you think the storm will do some damage to the cleanup operations? we are forecasting the storm to get up to 40 miles an hour. you can have some i am pact there with waves and storms. reporter: once the storm passes through they will put all those cleanup operations back.
and we want to show you an impressive beach cleanup in grand isle. large piles of sand there on the beach. that has been scooped up by beach cleaners and this then is carried in a pay loader in the bucket of a pay loader off to that orange hopper there and the and is then put on the conveyor belt and screened. it goes through a two stage rinsing process. the oil is skimmed off and then the clean sand is dumbed into the yellow trucks and carted off to be put in another pile of clean sand. they say that the sand washers have cleaned 121-tons of sand yesterday alone. recovered about five barrels of oily water and in total cleaned 700-tons of sand here in grand isle alone and collected 28-barrels of oily water. not every beach is getting this kind of treatment. yesterday we were in hancock county mississippi where there are beach cleaners on the beach but also lots of tar balls up and down the sand and they continue they say to come in with the tar balls every 24