My suspicion is the snorkel trips offered to cruise ship passengers. They take a high volume of snorkelers to the 2 sites I chose for the clean up (this is why I chose them specifically). After seeing the debris it was largely composed of plastic, more specifically plastic cups which ar either being thrown over or disgarded incorrctly.
Nothing unusual. Although we did recover a pink wrist watch
Plastic cups
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only that I was disappointed to see so much plastic. We all know that plastic items take an extremely long time to break down, so why operators in the marine based industry continue to use them is baffling - especially when such a large amount of it is deposited into the ocean. I know it is not all from boats or excursion operators, and that a lot will be from the land which has blown its way into the water but it was still not nice to have such a high percentage of the collection turn out to be plastic :(
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