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Mega Expedition mothership R/V Ocean Starr fully deployed above the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 2015.
Sunset aboard one of the 30 Mega Expedition vessels, 2015.
Mega Expedition mothership R/V Ocean Starr crew pulling a ghost net from the Pacific Ocean, 2015.
Discarded fishing gear floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 2015.
A floating debris too large to enter a Manta Trawl, the conventional surface sampling device method, 2015. Credits: Chloé Dubois

Ghost net lifted aboard the Mega Expedition mothership R/V Ocean Starr, 2015.
Large debris stored on the deck of the Mega Expedition mothership, 2015.
A plastic crate floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 2015.
A styrofoam buoy retrieved during the Mega Expedition, 2015.
Plastic samples collected during the Mega Expedition, 2015.
Plastic samples collected during the Mega Expedition, 2015.
Plastic samples collected during the Mega Expedition, 2015.
Plastic samples collected during the Mega Expedition, 2015.
Plastic samples collected during The Ocean Cleanup’s Mega Expedition, 2015.
Ocean Force One's arrival at Moffett Airfield in Mountain View, California
Lead Oceanographer Laurent Lebreton logging data aboard the Ocean Force One during the Aerial Expedition, 2016.

Modeled mass concentration of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Plastic mass distribution within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between size (bars) and type (colours) classes.
Measured mass and numerical concentrations of plastic in the Great pacific Garbage Patch.
Field monitoring effort. Vessel (grey and dark blue lines) and aircraft tracks (light blue lines) and locations where data on buoyant ocean plastic concentrations were collected (circles)
Decadal evolution of microplastic concentration in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Illustration
Plastic debris degradation in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Illustration
1.8 trillion pieces of plastic - Illustration (gif)
1.6 million square kilometers, three times the size of France - Illustration (gif)
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch in Numbers - Infographic

Boyan Slat, Founder & CEO - The story behind the new results on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Animation by in60seonds
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Laurent Lebreton, Lead Oceanographer - About this research
2min32 2 GB
Various footage of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch research - Mega Expedition, Aerial Expedition, Laboratory
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