Isn’t it an irony that the world’s biggest garbage dump is located in the world’s biggest ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or the Pacific Trash Vortex, is an endless stream of garbage debris that can be found between the states of Hawaii and California, and from Eastern Japan ...
The first manned expedition was in 1960 when Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard took the risk and became the first to conquer the Challenger Deep for about 30 minutes. Fifty-two years later, James Cameron seized the opportunity to dive solo into this chasm in a submarine he helped design. He sp...
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The Pacific Ocean meets the Atlantic waters south of Cape Horn which is the southernmost tip of Tierra del Fuego/South America. 3. Ocean Facts | How deep are the oceans? The average depth of the oceans is about 3,500 m/ 11,482 ft. However, the depth of the oceans varies widely depen...
Fact 13.Every year we dump 14 billion pounds of trash into the ocean rather than either recycling it or disposing of it properly indesignated landfills. Fact 14.There is a ‘garbage patch’ in the Pacific Ocean that is just a twisting and turning vortex of trash and waste. Its size is ...
What is the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch? 10 Endangered Ocean Species and Marine Animals About Author Zahra is an alumna of Miranda House, University of Delhi. She is an avid writer, possessing immaculate research and editing skills. Author of several academic papers, she has also worked as a ...
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The WWF has acknowledged that most of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is abandoned fishing gear rather than small individual plastic items. But the organization has still set its sights on many so-called single-use plastics used by consumers in the United States–even though the...
5. The Majority of Plastic Pollution in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Originates in Five Nations Lost fishing gear, also known as ghost gear, accounts for about 20% of all marine plastic.New researchhas found that in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the majority of floating plastics can be...
There is a swirl of garbage in the Pacific Ocean, roughly the size of Texas. It's known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. While it's often described as "an island of garbage," the GPGP is more accurately seen as something like garbage soup: a massive portion of the ocean with a ...