Plastic waste on Porcupine Bank - We are, sadly, all responsible

In May, retired American naval officer Victor Vescovo dived nearly 10, 927m in a submarine to a point in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench regarded as the deepest place on Earth.

Plastic waste on Porcupine Bank - We are, sadly, all responsible

In May, retired American naval officer Victor Vescovo dived nearly 10, 927m in a submarine to a point in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench regarded as the deepest place on Earth.

That dive went 16m deeper than the previous record descent in 1960. Incredibly, frighteningly too, Vescovo found litter believed to be plastic, the flotsam and jetsam of our consumer lifestyles, at that incredible depth.

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