We've all tried to kicked down and you're like, whoa, I'm not getting anywhere. 5 Gyres is, I think, one of the world leaders in fighting marine plastic pollution.
We had very little time to equip the boat. You have this big gyre , who have, like, 300 kilometers large.
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We've all tried to kicked down and you're like, whoa, I'm not getting anywhere. And what 5 Gyres does is, tries to study it, and then raise awareness.
We've all tried to kicked down and you're like, whoa, I'm not getting anywhere. And the gyres are these current systems.
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He's thinking specifically of drones in warfare. We've known about the Pacific Gyres for the better part of two decades now.
We sometimes refer to them as biological deserts, actually. There's an area immediately to the south of this gyre on the right, between California and Hawaii, where we've seen a lot of great white sharks congregate. It's called the White Shark Cafe.
And one of the beaches there, called Kamilo Beach is very famous for its sand essentially being plastic. Because it's buffering right on the edge of that gyre . And it just sort of scrubs, like friction, the plastic out of the water as it hits the edge of that beach.
We've all tried to kicked down and you're like, whoa, I'm not getting anywhere. And I went on this voyage through the North Atlantic gyre -- which we went for an expedition from Bahamas to Bermuda.
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We've all tried to kicked down and you're like, whoa, I'm not getting anywhere. Last summer I did a story on 5 Gyres .
He's thinking specifically of drones in warfare. By the way, the Pacific Gyre does not look like that, just soupy, plastic mess.
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We've all tried to kicked down and you're like, whoa, I'm not getting anywhere. Yeah. And Long Island is right in the middle of that gyre .
And in one old woman's view, even the great ice wall of the north, here ankle high. It was funny to see these little worlds as if one were an eagle at the highest point of its gyre , and some of the decorative views were quite beautiful.
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And then it gets into the food web. You've probably heard about these Great Pacific garbage patches, these gyres which sort of physically concentrate the plastic. And one of the things that we're really fascinated by is, those are not areas of high biological importance.
And we don't know the implications. Like I said, there's a lot of plastic in those gyres . But the area up top where it goes from cool green to sort of warmer yellow and red is this thermocline that we know is a biodiversity hotspot.
We've all tried to kicked down and you're like, whoa, I'm not getting anywhere. however it is, and they end up in these swirling gyres at the surface.
And this beach has become particularly infamous historically for accumulating huge amounts of plastic waste. The Hawaiian Islands kind of act like a massive comb or strainer in the middle of the Pacific because they're in the center of these gyres . The currents just continually sweep all this debris into the islands.
all the cigarette butts, everything else, it just blows right into the Hudson River, into the East River. And actually ends up in the same place in the oceans that the trash off Western Africa does. And the trash all congregates in these huge, floating, plastic, swirling gyres in the ocean. And researchers have actually found that the, the density of plastic to plankton is six to one in these areas. So, it was just--it's just flabbergasting.