When was the great pacific garbage patch found?
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When was the great pacific garbage patch found to exist by hypothesis? When was the great pacific garbage patch found to exist for the first time in person?
1988
1997
Great Pacific garbage patch
When was the great pacific garbage patch found?
Great Pacific garbage patch Charles J. Moore South Pacific garbage patch Indian Ocean garbage patch Garbage patch North Atlantic garbage patch North Pacific Gyre Project Kaisei Talk:Great Pacific garbage patch/Archive 1 Marine debris
Research indicates that the <b>patch</b> is rapidly accumulating. A similar <b>patch</b> of 
floating plastic debris is <b>found</b> in the Atlantic Ocean, called the North Atlantic 
<b>garbage</b>&nbsp;... Charles J. Moore is an oceanographer and boat captain known for articles that 
recently brought attention to the &#39;<b>Great Pacific Garbage Patch</b>&#39;, ... It seemed 
unbelievable, but I never <b>found</b> a clear spot. In the week it took to cross the 
subtropical&nbsp;... The South Pacific garbage patch is an area of ocean with increased levels of 
marine debris and ... The garbage patch was confirmed in mid-2017, and has 
been compared to the <b>Great Pacific garbage patch</b>&#39;s state in 2007, making the 
former ... The researchers <b>found</b> an increase in plastic pollution density, 
averaging 26,898&nbsp;... Discovery[edit]. The existence of the <b>Great Pacific garbage patch</b>, the first to be 
<b>discovered</b>, was predicted in a 1988 paper published by the National Oceanic&nbsp;... Garbage patch may refer to: <b>Great Pacific garbage patch</b> &middot; Indian Ocean garbage 
patch &middot; North Atlantic garbage patch &middot; South Pacific garbage patch&nbsp;... The North Atlantic garbage patch is an area of man-made marine debris <b>found</b> 
floating within ... Cleanup is planned to start in the <b>Great Pacific Garbage Patch</b> 
first, and eventually move around to the other patches across the globe. Aside 
from&nbsp;... The North Pacific Gyre (NPG) or North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG), located 
in the northern ... The gyre has a clockwise circular pattern and is <b>formed</b> by four 
prevailing ocean currents: the North Pacific ... It is the site of an unusually intense 
collection of man-made marine debris, known as the <b>Great Pacific Garbage Patch</b>
. ... up the <b>Great Pacific Garbage Patch</b>, a large body of floating debris trapped in 
the Pacific Ocean by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre. <b>Discovered</b> by NOAA
&nbsp;... According to National Geographic, the <b>Patch</b> was <b>discovered</b> in 1997 by Captain 
Charles&nbsp;... Marine debris, also known as marine litter, is human-created waste that has 
deliberately or ... More recent studies have <b>found</b> that more than half of plastic 
debris <b>found</b> on Korean shores is ocean-based. ... The <b>Great Pacific Garbage</b> 
<b>Patch</b> is one such example of this, comprising a vast region of the North Pacific 
Ocean rich&nbsp;...
between 1985 and 1988
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