Trash On Ocean Floor
Scientists have found large amounts of micro plastic in the guts of deep dwelling ocean mammals like whales.
Trash on ocean floor. Due to winds and currents garbage patches are constantly changing size and shape. Trash litters deep seafloor mostly recyclables deep sea currents wrapped this plastic bag around a gorgonian coral almost 7 000 feet 2 115 m below the ocean surface in astoria canyon off the. The trash accumulates near the coast until a turbidity current a submarine avalanche of sediment and debris transports. The hotspots are a deep sea equivalent of so called garbage patches created by currents on the ocean s surface.
Trash marine debris and dead animals are getting gathered into these holes and concentrated said eve lundsten a senior research technician with mbari. New york reuters on the deepest dive ever made by a human inside a submarine a texas investor and explorer found something he could have found in the gutter of nearly any street in the world. The great pacific garbage patch is a collection of marine debris in the north pacific ocean. The waters off the deerfield beach international fishing pier in florida are about 3 200 pounds cleaner after a guinness world record setting 633 divers spent just two hours scouring the ocean.
Vescovo the dallas based co founder of insight equity holdings a private equity fund found the manmade material on the ocean floor and is trying to confirm that it is plastic said stephanie. Vescovo hoped his discovery of trash in the mariana trench would raise. They re acting like trash bins on the. Marine debris is litter that ends up in oceans seas and other large bodies of water.
Ultimately the trash is washed by the streams from the land into the sea.