Franklin, Andrews, Kramer & Edelstein

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This is what it's like to swim through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Mary Anne Potts 1 day ago

Roughly a thousand miles southwest of San Francisco, Ben Lecomte, a 52-year-old French long-distance swimmer, is exploring one of the ocean’s most polluted places. It’s day 71 of his 80-day swim across the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling repository for some 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic weighing nearly 90,000 tons. He's dubbed the project the Vortex Swim and his route is determined by University of Hawaii scientists using satellite imagery and ocean modeling to locate the highest concentrations of debris. When they locate a particularly trashy spot, Lecomte jumps in from his 67-foot sailboat.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/environment/this-is-what-its-like-to-swim-through-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/ar-AAGauCJ