Debris from a fishing net visible underwater as well as a Rainbow Runner fish swimming nearby. The Greenpeace MY Arctic Sunrise ship is in background.

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.