Taking The Plunge: Why Ben Lecomte Plans To Swim Through The World’s Largest Floating Patch of Garbage On His 5,500-Mile Journey Across The Pacific Ocean

In the Pacific Ocean, halfway between California and Hawaii, there is a massive floating blanket of bottles, bags and other plastic debris chiefly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This collection of floating junk covers an area twice the size of Texas — 1.6 million square kilometers — and weighs an estimated 80,000 tons.