A yellow buoy with some line trailing behind has become the home for many gooseneck barnacles, several crabs, and has attracted a school of pilotfish.

The crew of the Greenpeace ship MY Arctic Sunrise voyage into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch document plastics and other marine debris. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a soupy mix of plastics and microplastics, now twice the size of Texas, in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean.