#pacific ocean
Aplastic bag found by Victor Vescovo, when he descended nearly 10,927m (nearly 6.8 miles) to a point in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, one of the deepest part of the ocean. He also found a sweet wrappers.
Two decades ago, Kaikō, a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) built by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) recorded a plastic bag at 10,898 meters deep in the Mariana Trench.
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Aplastic ice bag, likely blown overboard from a fishing vessel found at a depth of ~3,700 m in Enigma Seamount, near the Mariana Trench
- Photograph: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas.
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