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An iceberg calves from Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier
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Pine Island Glacier

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Rhinochimaera swimming in the Dark.
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Rhinochimera

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boats sweeping up the oil slick
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Sweeping up the Oil Slick

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Sugar kelp from the “integrated multi-trophic aquaculture” (IMTA) collaboration between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), New Hampshire Sea Grant, the University of New Hampshire, and the Portsmouth Commercial Fisherman's Asso
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IMTA Sugar Kelp

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Blue mussels use byssus threads (which you can see on the right, in front of the barnacle shell) to attach to rocks and sometimes to stop a predator from making them a meal.
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Byssus Threads on a Blue Mussel

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Two red flame scallops with white tentacles attached to a sandy substrate.
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Flame Scallop

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Chelsea Rochman dissects a dorado caught by the crew to see if it had eaten plastic. Nearly 10 percent of all fish collected on the expedition had plastic in their systems.
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Dorado Dissection

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Trash Detective and microbial ecologist Peter Davison and crew haul in the Oozeki net, used to collect fish and other organisms living between 650 and 2,600 feet, at sunrise. Operations aboard the SEAPLEX cruise happened 24 hours a day around the clock.
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Oozeki Net

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A satellite image of the rivers and mangroves of the sundarbans
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Sundarbans from Space

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This colony of Lophelia pertusa was photographed from the Mingulay Reef Complex off Scotland in 2005.
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Lophelia pertusa Colony

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A photo of coral visibly affected by disease.
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Diseased Coral

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Much of the plastic comes from litter on land, which washes down storm drains and eventually makes it to the ocean. Some bits are from fishing nets and lines discarded by fishing boats.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 7

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