Getting my sea legs

Well, I’ve officially been at sea for a week now. So much has happened:

• The crew has found plastic in every single sample of seawater they’ve taken
• Jeff caught our first fish-a 27” Mahi Mahi
• I’ve been able to take underwater photographs of a floating yellow crate from Korea and a 55 gallon plastic barrel
• The crew has retrieved over ten different abandoned buoys of all shapes and sizes
• I interviewed Moore about the trip and what he hopes will happen to the garbage patch in the future, (will include comments from the interview in future posts).
• We lost a flow meter (the flow meter is attached to the manta trawl and measures how much water the manta samples)
• Bonnie started fishing for plastic with a net from the bow. In ten minutes she found a handful of tiny plastic pieces.