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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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The fringe of a white Christmas tree worm.
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White Christmas Tree Worm

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An Arctic cod rests in an ice-covered space.
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Arctic Cod Beneath the Ice

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Branching coral in naturally acidic water.
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Fragile Branching Corals in Acidic Water

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A veined octopus briefly leaves its hiding place, a shell, to devour a crab.
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Octopus Eating a Crab

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An aerial shot of a tree-lined section of the Mississippi River at sunset.
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Down the Mississippi

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