The first islands from the trash can be seen in the Black Sea. ”The findings are unique and disturbing, because similar shapes have become noticeable till now in the widths of large oceans”, it writes in the Telegraph, based on publications of the Russian websites.
Giant clusters of litter in the water were seen by a group of Russian scientists who came to the sea to count the dolphin population, they report from the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The expedition used a twin-engine La 8 flying ship, an eight-seater amphibious aircraft, on which the dolphins were monitored at sea from 18 to 26 September 2019.
“450 times scientists caught sight of the garbage islands – large and small. Swam as simple packages, as well as individual plastic structures, scraps of nets and buoys. Often, small debris was concentrated in huge spots over which the plane flew for several minutes, ”said Dmitry Glazov, head of the research team of the project “ Flights with dolphins ”, leading engineer of the A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to the scientists from the BAN, the garbage that formed the most probably came from the Danube River, which is the main source of pollution in the Black Sea.
The second destination is the ship traffic, which also generates waste, and such can be seen on the route of many vessels.
Sources:
meduzata.com
interfax.ru