On the 23rd of June last month, the Ocean Voyages Institute made history after they successfully cleaned 103 tons or 206,000 pounds of plastic garbage and fishing nets from the GYRE or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The cleaning expedition lasted for 48 days and they set a new record […]
Tag: Pacific Ocean
The 25-Year-Old’s Dream to Clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Uses a Giant Device for Cleaning Plastic
When he was 19, Boyan Slat, today a successful and well-known entrepreneur, founded Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization whose goal is to eliminate harmful plastics from the oceans. His organization created a device twice the size of Texas to remove garbage from the Garbage Patch in the Great Pacific. The […]
Ocean Cleaning Device Successfully Removes Plastic For The First Time
A large cleaning device which was constructed by Dutch scientists for the non-profit organization Ocean Cleanup successfully collected and removed plastic from the Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean. The organization has long been working on making a device that will help tackle the plastic garbage crisis and the result […]
Authorities Intercept a Vessel Illegally Transporting 12.3 Million Seahorses Extracted from the Pacific
Peruvian authorities caught a ship transporting 12.3 illegally-caught seahorses that was bound to arrive in Asia. A Coast Guard detected the vessel 200 miles of the seaside city of Callao before it was redirected to the main seafood port in Peru. According to reports from officials, the seahorses were illegally […]