This report, I’m sure, was supposed to make readers shiver with anxiety over what man-made “trash” and “garbage” are doing to our pristine seas.? But a full reading of the story reveals this:
On August 11th, the researchers encountered a large net entwined with
plastic and various marine organisms; they also recovered several
plastic bottles covered with ocean animals, including large barnacles.?
It’s long been known that sea life thrive on and around such man-made structures as oil rigs. This inconvenient truth now seems to include net-bound plastic bottles and other detritus of mankind.
But a thorough reading of this account reveals no actual damage to the seas, unless one counts the aesthetic “damage” done by floating trash reefs. As for the barnacles and other organisms, they seem to be happy as clams.
