Oceanographic scientists say they have discovered a vast, floating "reef" of the worlds disposed condoms in the middle of the South Pacific, about halfway between Tahiti and Antarctica. The phenomenal mass is almost two miles long, an eighth of a mile wide, and in places up to 60 feet deep, the oceanographers say.
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/thursday.handleigh/unusual/other/condom-reef.htm
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