Pioneering Researchers Launch World’s 1st South Atlantic Ocean Plastic-Pollution Study

  with the Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF) and Pangaea Explorations, is leading this expedition. The 5 Gyres team, lead by its co-founders Marcus Eriksen,PhD and Anna Cummins, will sail on November 8th from Rio de Janeiro to Cape Town, South Africa on the first transatlantic Southern Hemisphere plastic-pollution research trip. Cummins and Eriksen, overseeing a 13-member crew of researchers, journalists and others for the first global study of the problem."We want.... the world to know that the scourge is not confined to a single mythical "Texas-size garbage patch.”