Interesting factoid chart.
There sure is a lot of Ocean.
On the other hand,
we are doing our best to fill it in.
Good post, thanks for sharing.
There was a documentary the other night on Green Planet channel about his dive. Very interesting.
I herd the author of this book interviewed on NPR a few months ago. The book Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans is on my “to read” list.
Sounds like a great first hand account of the growing plastic pollution problem that our oceans are experiencing.
I saw this study posted on the ubiquitous sceincedaily.com a few weeks ago:Wind Pushes Plastics Deeper Into Oceans, Driving Trash Estimates Up
Yeah, and Harleys washing up on the west coast too. The tsunami rinsed all kinds of stuff out to sea on its way back out from Japan.
http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news/tsunami_harley_davidson_washes_up_in_canada
That added a whole lot more stuff to the mix, floating around out there. It will be landing on the west coast for years to come.
Is that a soft tail?