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eXXpedition mission travels to the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch'

Ocean advocate Emily Penn supervised two-dozen women, all of which are a part of "eXXpedition North Pacific" as they journey over 3,000 miles aboard the 'Sea Dragon.' They headed into into what is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean. "We'll be taking surface water samples, subsurface sediment, and also air samples, and we're looking for small fragments of plastic, what we call micro-plastics, and we're finding thousands of them in o...