Friendly Floatees spill
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Friendly Floatees are plastic bath toys marketed by The First Years and made famous by the work of Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements. Ebbe
Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer with flotsam (including some Friendly Floatees) that he observes to monitor ocean currents.
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean. It is located roughly from 135°W to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N. The collection of
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The patch is created in the gyre of the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone.
Debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, washed ashore in Hawaii