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Charles J. Moore
Oceanographer and boat captain
Charles J. Moore is an oceanographer and boat captain known for articles that recently brought attention to the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch',[1] an area of the Pacific Ocean strewn with floating plastic debris caught in a gyre.[2]
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Main article: Great Pacific Garbage Patch
In 1997, while returning to southern California after finishing the Los Angeles-to-Hawaii Transpacific sailing race, he and his crew caught sight of trash floating in the North Pacific Gyre, one of the most remote regions of the ocean.
He wrote articles about the extent of this garbage, and the effects on sea life, which attracted significant attention in the media.
“As I gazed from the deck at the surface of what ought to have been a pristine ocean,” Moore later wrote in an essay for Natural History, “I was confronted, as far as the eye could see, with the sight of plastic.
It seemed unbelievable, but I