More and more plastics in Bermuda waters and Sargasso Sea
Plastic collected on Bermuda beaches by BREAM volunteer Judie Clee. Note all plastic pieces are heavily bitten, presumably by turtles and fishes. From the Bermuda Sun newspaper [link] Friday 26th Feb, 2010 Heather Jardin Masses of plastic debris collecting east of BDA Scientists have discovered an area of the North Atlantic Ocean to the east of Bermuda where huge amounts of plastic debris are accumulating. The region is said to compare with the well-documented "great Pacific garbage patch. In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation earlier this week Kara Lavender Law of the Sea Education Association (SEA) announced the findings of a two-decade-long study. Local scientist Dr. Thad Murdoch is the chief scientist of the Bermuda Reef Ecosystem Assessment and Mapping programme at the Bermuda Zoological Society and said the findings come as "no surprise". "The way the currents move around the Atlantic is very similar to the Pacific," Dr. Murdoch expl...