Images from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Scientists from UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography have made their way to the Northern Pacific to explore a blob of degraded plastic that is reportedly the size of Texas or bigger. Here, SEAPLEX scientists are seen retrieving bongo nets after a tow in the North Pacific Gyre.

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Images from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Scientists from UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography have made their way to the Northern Pacific to explore a blob of degraded plastic that is reportedly the size of Texas or bigger.

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