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1) Plastic ocean: how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a determined quest to save the oceans
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
x, 358 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu for California after competing in a trans-Pacific race. When he and his crew took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a vast oceanic "desert" where winds are slack, Moore realized his ship was skimming through a plastic soup. He had stumbled upon the largest garbage dump on the planet, soon to be dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch--where plastic outweighs...
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