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The Pacific Garbage Patch!
In the Pacific Sea there are patches of throw away plastic debris from cereal bowls to cups and straws and other refuse that have drifted into a vortex swirl called the "Gyre" in the Pacific Ocean. It averages 30 feet in depth and up to 100ft deep it is already "twice as large as Texas"!
Heres a link to a Wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_Patch
A research mission is under way June 10th to study the Pacific Garbage Patch! Read up about the trip below the vessel is the ORV Alguita, and is a trip by the Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF)
Mark Fraser filming for an episode of the Nature Walks with Mark Conservation based Television Series educating the public about Wildlife Habitat Protection!
What We Do
The goal is simply to raise public awareness and hopefully one day actually begin "removing" garbage from the Great Garbage Patch!
Protecting Wildlife Habitat!
The best thing we can do is to "stop feeding the Garbage Patch"
Help create a "Federal Ban" on Throw-away plastic shopping bags!
Here is alink about trying to ban them at a state level. If we can succeed others will follow until a ban is federal!
http://news.discovery.com/animals/senator-jamie-eldridge-discusses-the-pacific-garbage-patch.html
This image above is a Jelly entangled with fishing line. This shot was pulled from video taken byAndrew "Scuba Drew" Wheeler shot 1000 miles from land! Can you imagine! Andrew has been filming educational Youtube Videos about the Garbage Patch which can been seen on the "watch the videos tabe of this website!
Fishing Net that washed up on Kahuku Beach Oahu Hawaii
image byAndrew "Scuba Drew" Wheeler
Watch carefully we will update this site often!
