The 5 Gyres Project has recently crossed the North Atlantic Gyre and Indian Ocean Gyre.

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I've twice studied the North Pacific Gyre with Captain Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation.

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Hawaii, Oahu, Bermuda, the Azores, the Galapagos and Mauritius are natural nets sitting in the path of gyre currents.

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This meant that the influence of the southern oceanic gyre was gradually weakened, causing the "sweepstake" route to be closed.

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Someday, though, Goudey pictures a mobile fish farm that could work like this: Put hatchlings in cages into a Caribbean gyre near Barbados.

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"Trying to clean up the Pacific gyre would bankrupt any country and kill wildlife in the nets as it went, " Moore recently said.

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How about if we turned that giant island of plastic trash floating in the Pacific Ocean Gyre into a mirror or shade, or something?

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En route to Australia, Plastiki will sail through the infamous North Pacific Gyre, now home to "The Great Garbage Patch, " named due to the high levels of waste that have been drawn there by ocean currents.

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The fish, drifting in the gyre, would grow as the current took them west toward the Yucatan, then north into the Gulf of Mexico and finally into the Gulf Stream where the fish could pass near Miami just as they are good-eatin' size.

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