Seeking the Science of the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch

By Dr. M, on August 4th, 2009 3 comments   Expeditions, Plastic   gyre, Pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch, Plastic  

I hope you are following along on the SEAPLEX blog.  A great post about the kinds of gear used in open-water oceanography.  But better than the gear itself is a Vampire Squid caught in that gear!

3 comments to Seeking the Science of the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch

• Livia Llewellyn

  August 4, 2009 at 19:35 · Reply

  I didn’t think it was possible for squid to give the stink-eye. I stand corrected, awesomely so!

• Jennifer Frazer

  August 5, 2009 at 17:32 · Reply

  Wow . . . don’t get any rings anywhere near that thing. *Shudder*

• Blondie

  August 6, 2009 at 06:49 · Reply

  This might be an unrelated question, but something that is tied to garbage. I read on http://www.goodnews.org that “Catamar” off the coast of France is being used to clean up the ocean floor. What are the repercusions to sea life using something like this? Wouldn’t everything be disturbed and/or sucked up? I am really curious. Thanks