Ocean currents that carry trash to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch also fill it with floating sea life

In just one day alone, they counted more than 3,000 pieces of plastic, along with a large plastic drum, tangles of rope and multiple "ghost nets" (abandoned fishing nets).

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