Sailors for the Sea report on the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch'

10:52 PM Thu 25 Nov 2010 GMT

'Seaplex members recover fishing nets' .

The controversy about the existence, or otherwise, of the infamous 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' has raged for many years. Some sailors have reported sailing through fast quantities of plastic floating on the water, others who have sailed the same routes have reported nothing. Now the prestigious Scripps Institution of Oceanography report back in their November essay for Sailors for the Sea : Last summer, minutes before leaving port on a voyage to the North Pacific Ocean Gyre, Chief Scientist Miriam Goldstein was frank about what might and might not be encountered during the expedition to a place ...

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