Shipping logs show that every month in the years after World War II, thousands of barrels of acid sludge laced with this synthetic chemical were boated out to a site near Catalina and dumped into the deep ocean - so vast that, according to common wisdom at the time, it would dilute even the most dangerous poisons.
An epic Superfund battle later exposed the company’s disposal of toxic waste through sewage pipes that poured into the ocean - but all the DDT that was barged out to sea drew comparatively little attention.
