Ocean Voyages Institute’s marine plastic recovery vessel, S/V Kwai, has returned from a 48-day expedition where it successfully removed 103 tons of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone, more commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or Gyre. The expedition has set a new record for the largest at sea cleanup in the Gyre to date, more than doubling its own results from last year.
