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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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If this chick had survived, it could have lived a long time: Laysan albatrosses are very long-lived birds. The oldest known wild bird is a 62-year old Laysan albatross named “Wisdom,” who still rears chicks on Midway Atoll.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 9

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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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Newspapers with shark attack headlines in South Africa.
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Shark Attack Headlines

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"Break On Through" was taken by Wendy Wolf at California's Pfeiffer Beach. This photo was a winning selection in the Portraits of Planet Ocean Flickr contest.
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Break on Through - Wendy Wolf

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Pirate on the high sea
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Pirate Captain Keitt

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A spiraled diatom with spines.
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The Ocean Under the Microscope: Images from Nikon Small World

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A humpback whale breaching.
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Bacteria on Whale Skin Tell a Tale of Health and Sickness

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Forams are tiny single-celled organisms.
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Trials and Tribulations with Contamination

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Illustration of a real oarfish vs the Pokémon counterpart.
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Our Favorite Water Pokémon and Their Real-Life Doppelgängers

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Tiny bits and pieces of plastic can be found throughout the ocean, like these collected from the open ocean by net.
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The “Plastisphere:" A new marine ecosystem

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An underwater photo of Southern Bluefin Tuna swimming above a fish farm net.
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Tunas and Marlins Officially Classified as Threatened

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