5 Gyres - Understanding Plastic Pollution Through Exploration, Education, and Action

The North Atlantic Garbage Patch made it to mainstream audiences in the past two days, via an AP article that has been re-posted across the web and in several print articles, including the San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate. Anna is quoted as saying "our job now is to let people know that plastic ocean pollution is a global problem — it unfortunately is not confined to a single patch."

Additionally, never-before published photographs appeared as a slide show today on the front page of the Huffington Post. Photos include shots of the Sea Dragon in the North Atlantic Gyre, contents of the manta trawl, crew in action collecting marine debris from the deck of the boat, and a collection of plastic marine debris collected along the expedition.