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The Canadian PressPacific Ocean plastic trash from Hawaii beach is transformed into vacuum cleanerThe Canadian PressIn the ocean, currents carry the small bits to areas where massive gyres of plastic garbage have formed. One spot between Hawaii and California the size of ...and more »
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Cleanup Time on the High SeasDiscover Magazine... expedition this summer to the extensive floating garbage patch that collects in the center of a giant loop of currents known as the North Pacific Gyre. ...
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Reduce use of plastics for better health, oceansHonolulu Star-Advertiser... inexorably toward the Pacific Gyre, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling mass of trash in the middle of the ocean, now twice the size of Texas. ...
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Accidental, intentional plastic rides oceansDutch Harbor FishermanObjects floating in the gyre make complete tours of the North Pacific about every three years, Ebbesmeyer wrote in an article in EOS, a publication of the ...and more »
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Climate change may alter natural climate cycles of pacificenvironmentalresearchweb"The reason this is important is because the NPGO has significant effects on fish stocks and ocean nutrient distributions in the Pacific, especially along ...
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'There is no island of plastic trash ... it's worse'Dubuque Telegraph HeraldErikson said there are five gyres and he has visited four of them, most notably in the North Pacific and North Atlantic. When plastic products end up on the ...
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Deep-Sea NewsHow YOU can win your very own trash from the North Pacific Gyre…and more!Deep-Sea NewsYes, my friends, we will be going straight through the famed Pacific Garbage Patch of story and song. If you donate to the Ocean Bloggers Challenge, you, ...
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Can the oceans be cleared of floating plastic rubbish?BBC NewsThey are a quirk of ocean currents - a naturally created vortex known as a gyre - where floating rubbish tends to accumulate. The largest is in the North ...
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Washington PostFrom global sea census, a treasure troveWashington PostLoggerhead turtles move through those same waters, but they follow the North Atlantic gyre not just along the East Coast but to Africa and then the ...and more »
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Woodring: Speaking from the HeartWharton JournalProject Kaisei (kaisei means "ocean planet" in Japanese) began in 2009 with an ocean cleanup mandate focused specifically on the North Pacific Gyre, ...
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Maximo TV www.maximotv.com http Genevieve Jackson and Alejandra Oaziaza (Randy Jackson daughter and Jermaine Jackson's wife) arriving at FusionStorm Foundation 1st Annual fundraiser "My Ocean Planet" benefiting Ocean Voyages Institute Project Kaisei to clean up North Pacific Gyre at Malibu Lamber Yard in Malibu, CaUSA June 5, 2010 ***This footage is available for licensing*** The viewing of this clip by website visitors is only permissible for personal use; copying, commercial use, distribution, broadcast, download, additional use or transfer is expressly prohibited. Contact us for more information at maximotv.com © Ricomix Productions / Maximo TV™ / maximotv.com Produced by RICO DAMACEN ***FOOTAGE original shot Standard Definition at 4:3 and converted to 16:9 for youtube***
Full Text (HTML)Science Magazine (subscription)Atmospheric 14 C change and deep-water reservoir age variability in the shallow Pacific, deep North Atlantic (13, 15), and the deep Southern Ocean (this ...and more »
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Hi Bacich! ......many of you know about Project Kaisei. Please help us get out to the North Pacific Gyre again this summer to continue our research, and bring back large quantities of plastic waste so we can test how to make use of it in new ways. Thanks for your help to clean the ocean. We can all make a big difference! Vote here every day in May..... pep.si And spread to your friends! Thanks!
REGION: Inventors take aim at Pacific Ocean 'garbage patch'North County TimesThe North Pacific gyre is well known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," a debris field of man-made waste. Plastics don't decompose but remain suspended ...
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Kitson and the Malibu Lumberyard Host a Clean Up: MY OCEAN PLANETWestside Today... 1st annual fundraiser “My Ocean Planet”, benefitting Ocean Voyages Institute/Project Kaisei and its charge to clean up the North Pacific Gyre, ...
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Ocean lovers and athletes, join us for World Ocean Day (June 8th), for a cleanup on the weekend before, June 5th or 6th (up to you and your friends to decide when), with the "Oceanic Big 5". The Big 5 are the main sports users of the ocean, and the ambassadors to the world for telling the story about protection and cleanup. These are surfers, sailors, swimmers, paddlers and divers. Join us and spread the word. If you can raise money, we suggest that 50% goes to your local charity of choice, and 50% to Project Kaisei for our global work with the ocean and marine debris - mainly plastic. You can also get local PR for yourself, and hopefully some for Project Kaisei as well, to promote the issue of the North Pacific Gyre and the waste that is floating out there. More info is at: www.projectkaisei.org Or, email oceanday@projectkaisei.org Thanks!
Please spread the word, and vote every day, in the month of May, at pep.si or www.refresheverything.com and search Kaisei. We could win $250000 which would really help us to pay for our next expedition to the North Pacific Gyre this summer to continue our science, catch method work, and most of all, to bring back large quantities of plastic waste to show how it can be re-processed on land! Thanks for your help! You can all make a difference for the ocean. Thanks!
Anti-sealing ship undergoes refitTheChronicleHerald.caThese vortexes, known as the North Pacific Gyre, don't pose a navigational hazard to ships but they are an environmental concern and the US Congress is ...
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Arcata EyeOut With Ted At The Scene Of The Grime – May 13, 2010Arcata Eye... how waterborne garbage from the slough gets int Humboldt Bay, then the ocean, where after 15 years or it becomes part of the North Pacific Trash Gyre. ...and more »
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AOL NewsSoda Bottles Float This Skipper's BoatAOL News... damaged coral reefs and the North Pacific Garbage Patch -- a gyre of litter that some estimates say is twice the size of Texas. ...
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Reno News & ReviewThere is no away to throw toReno News & ReviewAt a more ethereal but equally important level, the ocean gyre is a potent reminder that there is no “away” to which we throw things. ...and more »
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Motivated Southgate students take action on Earth DayCampbell River MirrorThey had learned about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch located in the North Pacific Gyre (large rotating ocean current) during their unit on ecosystems and ...
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Porpoise statue strangled by giant plastic six-pack ringThe Province... kilometres of ocean in the North Pacific and in the North Atlantic. Scientists expect to find similar accumulation areas in the remaining oceanic gyres. ...and more »
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FusionStorm Foundations 1st annual fundraiser My Ocean Planet will support Project Kaisei, an organization whose main focus is monitoring the North Pacific Gyre (aka the Great Pacific Garbage Patch), currently the worlds largest landfill of plastics. Funds raised will help finance Project Kaiseis second expedition to the Gyre to begin research and clean-up of the tons of plastics and debris.
To honor Earth Day, Peter is releasing the driving rock ballad "Plastic Tomb," whose powerful beat and chilling harmonies remind us of the relentless grip that big box stores have on today's consumer culture. The harm from such material excess is evident in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch a Texas-sized vortex of marine litter consisting of pelagic plastics, chemical sludge, and other debris in the Northern Pacific ocean. With characteristic urgency, Peter impores us to break free from these wasteful habits, and in turn, eliminate the wake of plastic and paper across the planet. To download the song, visit: www.peterbuffett.com Peter recently teamed his social action site IsThereSomethingICanDo.com with DoSomething.org, to match his issue-inspired songs with various ways to take action in your community. To learn about ways to decrease your carbon footprint, visit www.dosomething.org/istheresomethingicando/music.
Miriam Goldstein, an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, speaks about her research trip to the North Pacific Gyre. Recently, the gyre has become better known as the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.
A groundbreaking Scripps voyage led by students helps define a rising threat to the environment caused by an accumulation of plastic and other debris in the North Pacific Ocean Gyre.
A groundbreaking Scripps voyage led by students helps define a rising environmental threat. This video was produced for Scripps Institution of Oceanography's FREE, award-winning, explorations e-magazine. SIGN UP for explorations: explorations.ucsd.edu
Imagine every person on earth had 100 pounds of plastic. Thats how much new plastic will be manufactured in 2010. Sadly, much of that will end up in the ocean within a massive area dubbed the Pacific Garbage Patch. Can anything be done to clean it up?
Imagine every person on earth had 100 pounds of plastic. Thats how much new plastic will be manufactured in 2010. Sadly, much of that will end up in the ocean within a massive area dubbed the Pacific Garbage Patch. Can anything be done to clean it up?
This video explores the impact of plastic pollution on the ocean environment and solutions to cleaning it up. In 2008, Ocean Voyages Institute launched Project Kaisei, its ocean clean up initiative. The project is a multi-year enterprise to remove plastic trash from the ocean, devise energy efficient collection methods, test and adapt recycling methods, and reduce the flow of plastics into the ocean. In 2009, Project Kaisei made its first voyage to the North Pacific Gyre. The team found tons of plastic trash mid ocean. Day after day the vessels sailed through accumulations of debris. Ghost nets composed of derelict fishing gear, captured sea life and plastic items were frequently spotted amongst the floating assortment of all too familiar plastic containers and items of all types and sizes (our trash). Even more pervasive were small pieces of plastics known as confetti. Our scientists found plastic in every surface trawl. Such pollution threatens the marine ecosystem and introduces dangerous levels of toxicity into the food web, ultimately raising concern for human health. The public needs to see the amount of plastic trash in the Gyre and understand the tragic consequence of a failure to act. By communicating with all forms of media, we can assure that our discoveries and actions at sea will be shared with all those who can make a difference - citizens, industries, scientists and governments - towards our goal to stop the deluge of plastic trash flowing into the global ...
Goffinet McLaren is promoting a future special event at 7 pm, Thursday, April 15, Oceans of Plastic Pollution--An Eye Witness Account, at Tara Theater, Litchfield by the Sea. She is hosting Pacific and Atlantic Garbage Patch Explorer Bonnie Monteleone, east coast spokesperson for the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. For information, contact McLaren at goffinet@sc.rr.com The throwaway society has gone global and cannot be contained. The world cannot store, maintain or recycle plastic and all such accumulated stuff in its oceans. This is the message of Captain Charles Moore, founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, who spoke Thursday, Jan. 14 at University of North Carolina--Wilmington. He said the market, including recycling and deposit fees, can do a lot. But it can't fix the natural system in the ocean we've broken, he said. These throwaway plastics take a lot of space and don't biodegrade. Only we humans make waste that nature can't digest. Capt. Moores research on plastic pollution in the North Pacific Ocean focused worldwide attention on the area often referred to as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch a vortex-like concentration of plastic pollution, also known as the North Pacific Gyre. Moore first observed this dynamic ocean-current-caused swirling plastic mass, while sailing from Hawaii to California 12 years ago. "There were shampoo caps and soap bottles and plastic bags and fishing floats as far as I could see. Here I was in the middle of the ocean ...
Captain Charles Moore of Algalita Marine Research Foundation has warned about the legacy we are leaving to future generations. "The throwaway society cannot be contained, it has gone global. We simply cannot store and maintain or recycle all our stuff. " His long-time research was primarily in the Pacific Ocean. Now another group is going to the Atlantic to continue the quest for information on what plastics are doing to the ocean's environment and its creatures. The Boat Made of Plastic and the Battle for Clean Oceans was broadcast around 8:35 am, Feb. 3, 2010, by ABC GMA Weatherman Sam Champion, open the story about the Plastiki, a 60-foot sailboat made out of reclaimed plastic bottles. From the adventurers to scientists, the mission for those aboard the Plastiki is to beat waste by inspiring sustainable solutions and to highlight the ecological damage being done to the world's oceans by waste. The problem may be bigger than you think, according to Champion on the morning news television program. The introduction and ending to portions of this GMA segment have been edited by CoastalDigital of Murrells Inlet, SC. Bonnie Monteleone of University of North Carolina-Wilmington recently introduced Captain Moore a packed auditorium with an audience of 400, Thursday, Jan. 14. Event organizers were Monteleone and Jennifer O'Keefe of Keep America Beautiful of New Hanover County. Monteleone spent 30 days on Capt. Moore's vessel during a Pacific Ocean research cruise, including ...
The throwaway society has gone global and cannot be contained. The world cannot store, maintain or recycle plastic and all such accumulated stuff in its oceans. This is the message of Captain Charles Moore, founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, who spoke Thursday, Jan. 14 at University of North Carolina--Wilmington. He said the market, including recycling and deposit fees, can do a lot. But it can't fix the natural system in the ocean we've broken, he said. These throwaway plastics take a lot of space and don't biodegrade. Only we humans make waste that nature can't digest. Capt. Moores research on plastic pollution in the North Pacific Ocean focused worldwide attention on the area often referred to as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch a vortex-like concentration of plastic pollution, also known as the North Pacific Gyre. Moore first observed this dynamic ocean-current-caused swirling plastic mass, while sailing from Hawaii to California 12 years ago. "There were shampoo caps and soap bottles and plastic bags and fishing floats as far as I could see. Here I was in the middle of the ocean, and there was nowhere I could go to avoid the plastic," Moore said. From the front row of the university student center theater, Goffinet McLaren said she intends to bring Capt. Moore's message back home to Pawleys Island in Georgetown County, SC, about how plastic causes the loss of sea birds and ocean creatures. McLaren, who helped organize a coastal beach clean-up last ...
Visit us @ TENTHMIL.com - TENTHMIL's Ecological Restoration Campaign - The world is a big place - too big to save all at once. So were looking at pieces of the puzzle, focusing on specific areas we can work on together, and offering ideas for steps you can take.
The throwaway society has gone global and cannot be contained. The world cannot store, maintain or recycle plastic and all such accumulated stuff in its oceans. This is the message of Captain Charles Moore, founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, who spoke Thursday, Jan. 14 at University of North Carolina--Wilmington. He said the market, including recycling and deposit fees, can do a lot. But it can't fix the natural system in the ocean we've broken, he said. These throwaway plastics take a lot of space and don't biodegrade. Only we humans make waste that nature can't digest. Capt. Moores research on plastic pollution in the North Pacific Ocean focused worldwide attention on the area often referred to as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch a vortex-like concentration of plastic pollution, also known as the North Pacific Gyre. Moore first observed this dynamic ocean-current-caused swirling plastic mass, while sailing from Hawaii to California 12 years ago. "There were shampoo caps and soap bottles and plastic bags and fishing floats as far as I could see. Here I was in the middle of the ocean, and there was nowhere I could go to avoid the plastic," Moore said. From the front row of the university student center theater, Goffinet McLaren said she intends to bring Capt. Moore's message back home to Pawleys Island in Georgetown County, SC, about how plastic causes the loss of sea birds and ocean creatures. McLaren, who helped organize a coastal beach clean-up last ...
www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Andrew Titmus was in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch studying the amount of birds as compared to amount of plastic. SEAPLEX scientists aboard the Scripps Institution of Oceanography vessel, New Horizon, were out to study the plastic and marine debris issue facing our ocean. Project Kaisei helped fund this expedition and Annie Crawley from Dive Into Your Imagination was aboard to document hoping to change the way a new generation views ourocean. Want to do something about this problem? Get the children in your life to love the ocean, give the gift of the ocean today, visit: www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Type youtube in the notes of your order to receive a free gift!
www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Chelsea Rochman studies the effects of plastic on all animal life including us. Persistent Organic Pollutants may be in tissues of fish at all levels, and this is what she hopes to research. As she wraps up the trip, she provides interesting insight into the findings of the expedition. SEAPLEX scientists aboard the Scripps Institution of Oceanography vessel, New Horizon, were out to study the plastic and marine debris issue facing our ocean. Project Kaisei helped fund this expedition and Annie Crawley from Dive Into Your Imagination was aboard to document hoping to change the way a new generation views ourocean. Want to do something about this problem? Get the children in your life to love the ocean, give the gift of the ocean today, visit: www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Type youtube in the notes of your order to receive a free gift!
www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Jim Leichter gives an eye opening interview about the findings of the scientists in the garbage patch SEAPLEX scientists aboard the Scripps Institution of Oceanography vessel, New Horizon, were out to study the plastic and marine debris issue facing our ocean. Project Kaisei helped fund this expedition and Annie Crawley from Dive Into Your Imagination was aboard to document hoping to change the way a new generation views ourocean. Want to do something about this problem? Get the children in your life to love the ocean, give the gift of the ocean today, visit: www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Type youtube in the notes of your order to receive a free gift!
www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Darcy Taniguchi studies microbial communities and plankton and how they are affected by plastic in the North Pacific Gyre. Phytoplankton are so important because they provide 50-90% of our oxygen. SEAPLEX scientists aboard the Scripps Institution of Oceanography vessel, New Horizon, were out to study the plastic and marine debris issue facing our ocean. Project Kaisei helped fund this expedition and Annie Crawley from Dive Into Your Imagination was aboard to document hoping to change the way a new generation views ourocean. Want to do something about this problem? Get the children in your life to love the ocean, give the gift of the ocean today, visit: www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Type youtube in the notes of your order to receive a free gift!
www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Meg Rippy studies marine bacteria. Plastic pieces break up into such tiny pieces that they may also be affecting the tiniest organisms on the planet- marine bacteria. SEAPLEX scientists aboard the Scripps Institution of Oceanography vessel, New Horizon, were out to study the plastic and marine debris issue facing our ocean. Project Kaisei helped fund this expedition and Annie Crawley from Dive Into Your Imagination was aboard to document hoping to change the way a new generation views ourocean. Want to do something about this problem? Get the children in your life to love the ocean, give the gift of the ocean today, visit: www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Type youtube in the notes of your order to receive a free gift!
www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com While out in the North Pacific Gyre with Project Kaisei and Scripps, SEAPLEX scientist Jim Leichter found a buoy with a barnacle fouling community on it. What are the implications of a community being carried vast distances across the ocean? Project Kaisei helped fund this expedition and Annie Crawley from Dive Into Your Imagination was aboard to document hoping to change the way a new generation views ourocean. Want to do something about this problem? Get the children in your life to love the ocean, give the gift of the ocean today, visit: www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Type youtube in the notes of your order to receive a free gift!
www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Josh Jones studies Whales and Dolphins using an acoustic array, which listens to sounds underwater. In this video, Josh Jones talks about how the acoustic array works. Project Kaisei helped fund this expedition and Annie Crawley from Dive Into Your Imagination was aboard to document hoping to change the way a new generation views ourocean. Want to do something about this problem? Get the children in your life to love the ocean, give the gift of the ocean today, visit: www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Type youtube in the notes of your order to receive a free gift!
These photographs of albatross chicks were made in September 2009 on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking. To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. ~Chris Jordan October 2009 www.chrisjordan.com www.midwayjourney.com Music by Christen Lien itsnotaviolin.com
The North Pacific Gyre, where garbage in the Pacific Ocean swirls in an eddy of indeterminable size, was the destination for the Kaisei Project . Tracking their path in Google Earth and Maps along the way, they experimented with turning plastic particles from the "Plastic Vortex" into diesel fuel.
www.diveintoyourimagination.com Chief Scientist Miriam Goldstein discusses the small pieces of plastic the scientists aboard the SEAPLEX cruise are continuing to find within the nets in the North Pacific Gyre. The expedition was funded by Project Kaisei and UC Ships Fund. Chief Scientist Goldstein discusses why the findings of all the small debris are potentially more disturbing than the large pieces of plastic and explains what her colleagues, Darcy Taniguchi and Megan Rippy were studying. The SEAPLEX cruise from Scripps and Kaisei were two expeditions. Project Kaisei helped fund two expeditions out to the garbage patch to find solutions to the growing plastic problem facing theOcean. Want to do something about this problem? Get the children in your life to love the ocean, give the gift of the ocean today, visit: www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Type youtube in the notes of your order to receive a free gift!
www.diveintoyourimagination.com Founder Doug Woodring of Project Kaisei joined the SEAPLEX cruise from Scripps Institution of Oceanography aboard the New Horizon on a 3 week long expedition to the North Pacific Gyre. They collected data to help find a solution to the "Plastic Vortex" forming in our Ocean. Doug Woodring discusses how the three founders, Mary Crowley, George Orbelian and himself formed Project Kaisei to help our Ocean Planet. For more information you can also visit their site at www.ProjectKaisei.org Want to do something about this problem? Get the children in your life to love the ocean, give the gift of the ocean today, visit www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Type youtube in the notes of your order to receive a free gift!
www.diveintoyourimagination.com Captain Wes of the New Horizon, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography vessel talks about how plastic has accumulated in the North Pacific Gyre and other gyres in the world. He was the Captain aboard the SEAPLEX cruise in August with chief scientist Miriam Goldstein and other scientists from Scripps. The SEAPLEX cruise from Scripps and Kaisei were two expeditions. Project Kaisei helped fund two expeditions out to the garbage patch to find solutions to the growing plastic problem facing theOcean. Want to do something about this problem? Get the children in your life to love the ocean, give the gift of the ocean today, visit: www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Type youtube in the notes of your order to receive a free gift!
www.diveintoyourimagination.com Scripps scientist Miriam Goldstein talks about the SEAPLEX expedition to the North Pacific Gyre and how shocked she was at the amount of plastic at the surface when they were in the skiff. The SEAPLEX cruise from Scripps and Kaisei were two expeditions. Project Kaisei helped fund two expeditions out to the garbage patch to find solutions to the growing plastic problem facing the Ocean. Project Kaisei helped fund to go out to the garbage patch and try to find solutions to the growing plastic problem facing theOcean. Want to do something about this problem? Get the children in your life to love the ocean, give the gift of the ocean today, visit: www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Type youtube in the notes of your order to receive a free gift!
www.diveintoyourimagination.com Chief Scientist Miriam Goldstein talks about the first 24 hour sampling station in the North Pacific Gyre, more commonly known as the garbage patch. SEAPLEX scientists aboard the Scripps Institution of Oceanography vessel, New Horizon, were out to study the plastic and marine debris issue facing our ocean. Project Kaisei helped fund this expedition and Annie Crawley from Dive Into Your Imagination was aboard to document hoping to change the way a new generation views ourocean. Want to do something about this problem? Get the children in your life to love the ocean, give the gift of the ocean today, visit: www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Type youtube in the notes of your order to receive a free gift!
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