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Mega Expedition research vessel deploying manta trawl.
Mega Expedition mission patch.
Manta Trawls lined up for Mega Expedition.
Manta trawl deployed during Mega Expedition.
Mega Expedition crew vessel deploying manta trawl.

Manta trawl deployed during Mega Expedition.
Mega Expedition trawl samples.
Mega Expedition trawl with ghost net. Photo credits: Chloé Dubois, The Ocean Cleanup
Mega Expedition mothership R/V Ocean Starr fully deployed above the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Mega debris (crate) in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Ocean plastic sample after trawling for an hour in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Bite marks on a plastic bottle in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Photo credits: Kyler Badten / The Ocean Cleanup
Crew with visual survey balloon on the deck of Mega Expedition mothership the R/V Ocean Starr.
Size distribution of ocean plastic recovered with R/V Ocean Starr, the Mega Expedition mothership.
Ghost nets recovered with R/V Ocean Starr, the Mega Expedition mothership.
Crew showing size distribution of ocean plastic recovered with R/V Ocean Starr, the Mega Expedition mothership.
Mega Expedition mothership R/V Ocean Starr crew pulling a ghost net from the Pacific Ocean.
Ghost net lifted aboard the Mega Expedition mothership R/V Ocean Starr.
Ghost net aboard the Mega Expedition mothership R/V Ocean Starr.
Arrival of the Mega Expedition mothership R/V Ocean Starr in San Francisco on August 23, 2015.

Mega Expedition Various Footage and Animation
2min18 192 MB
Mega Expedition departure from Hawaii
2min18 255,9 MB
Mega Expedition Mothership. Ocean Starr
3min31 327,7 MB
Mega Expedition Arrival Press Conference
3min56 442,2 MB