Project Kaisei - Jim Leichter Finds Barnacle Fouling Community - The Garbage Patch - Scripps

http://www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com/news/the-garbage-patch While out in the North Pacific Gyre with Project Kaisei and Scripps, SEAPLEX scientist Jim Leichter found a buoy with a barnacle fouling community on it. What are the implications of a community being carried vast distances across the ocean? Project Kaisei helped fund this expedition and Annie Crawley from Dive Into Your Imagination was aboard to document hoping to change the way a new generation views our ocean.

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Science & Technology

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• Annie Crawley
• Project Kaisei
• Plastic
• Ocean
• plastic ocean
• marine climate change
• New Horizon
• plastic vortex
• save the ocean
• North Pacific Gyre
• marine debris
• ocean habitat
• ocean biology
• Scripps
• SEAPLEX
• The Garbage Patch
• great pacific garbage patch
• barnacles
• fouling community
• Jim Leichter

[AshleesxzDramaticsxz]

i don't know how he can touch that thing , it makes my skin crawl :S

[mxdog45]

i feel like smashing that nasty crap

[117starpower]

i knew barnacles from a game half life 2 but i never knew how a barnacle in real lif really looked like:/ so i searched and i found what i wanted to find:D at least what i think it is:P

[akaikangaroo]

Mugiwara!

[1sarlou]

Yea! pluck and smash!

[gatoflacoroad]

me too

[LitleShe]

a to sie zalicza chyba do rafy co nie? to dlaczego ten pan ma to w rece? nie wolno tego ruszac

[Flake777]

Us Cape Verdeans Eat Those Up Like Popcorn! YUMMY!

[XboxGamerAndMMORPGS1]

i was looking for dog fights right.. then it when to wired fishes. then it whent to baby slash dog then alian people then alian fish and NOW barnacles... .WTF YO??? (btw wired side of youtube is scary loool)

[Lettumi]

I prefer these to float on the oceans instead of human waste and plastic bottles.

[SpyrosMommi]

Lol I like how i'm not the only one who came here for an in depth look of how gross these things really are.

[SovereignOfSilence19]

Cool!!!