“This… how is this possible?”
Yi Ying stood in the yacht’s cockpit.
She widened her eyes, staring at the live feed from the drone.
Even Yang Xu, who had been calm before.
His face was a bit surprised!
In the footage captured by the live drone.
One nautical mile out on the ocean surface.
A whole garbage island was floating!
This island was completely cobbled together from garbage.
It was about 5 kilometers in diameter!
Discarded plastic bottles, fishing nets, and garbage bags were intertwined, gathered together by the ocean currents.
The live stream exploded instantly!
【A garbage island! A whole garbage island! How did it form?】
【My God, this is too terrifying, isn’t it? Is this the ‘gift’ humanity has given the ocean?】
【The Pacific Ocean is remote and uninhabited, why is there so much garbage?】
【So it was this floating garbage island that was detected by the ship’s radar.】
Yang Xu frowned and said to Yi Ying, “Don’t let the Cloud Sail get too close to the garbage island.”
“I understand.” Yi Ying nodded slightly.
There were many pieces of broken fishing nets around the garbage island.
If the garbage got into the yacht’s propeller engine.
It could cause serious trouble.
Yang Xu continued, “We can take the jet ski over there to have a look, it’s simply unbelievable.”
Regarding the Pacific ‘garbage patch’.
Both Yang Xu and Yi Ying had done some research before setting sail.
This phenomenon of ocean garbage dumps does exist.
But according to the records of relevant research materials, there was no record of a garbage pile gathering into a ‘small island’!
If you say.
In the past few days.
The ‘Cloud Sail’ yacht had recorded blue skies, white clouds, and vast blue waters.
But right now.
In the live stream.
It was a ‘garbage island’ that had nothing to do with beautiful scenery!
The visual impact of this difference.
Left the live stream viewers speechless.
【I’ve seen news reports, the total area of the Pacific garbage patch is very large! It’s larger than the combined area of Spain, Germany, and France! Brother Xu actually found the location where the garbage patch moved!】
【Is this the garbage that humans discard? These are all non-degradable plastic wastes, it’s too sinful.】
【The footage Brother Xu captured is more shocking than the pictures released by international environmental organizations!】
【Mom, I want to go to the Pacific Ocean to pick up garbage, so many plastic bottles can sell for a lot of money~】
The number of viewers in the live stream, due to the appearance of the ‘garbage island’.
The number surged!
In the blink of an eye, it surpassed 1.69 million!
Perhaps viewers new to the live stream would think that this yacht’s world tour live stream.
Would have beautiful images of palm trees, clear water, and white sand.
However, what was presented to them.
Was the garbage island formed by the remote Pacific Ocean!
Yang Xu was already preparing his diving suit.
Next, he planned to ride the jet ski to the edge of the ‘garbage island’.
On the one hand, he could take a closer look at the cruel and spectacular sight of the garbage island.
Secondly.
The ‘D-class rare creature’ previously scanned by the 【Radar Template】.
Was only one nautical mile from the garbage island.
Yang Xu took the opportunity to visit the ‘garbage island’.
To dive and look for the trace of the D-class rare creature.
This was the first time the Radar Template had given feedback on a rare creature.
Maybe there will be huge profits!
“Next, I’ll take you to see the artificial island that humanity has ‘gifted’ the Pacific Ocean up close.”
Yang Xu left a sentence behind.
Then he walked towards the lower deck of the Cloud Sail yacht where the jet ski was parked.
After all, the Cloud Sail couldn’t drop anchor and stop.
Yi Ying needed to stay on the yacht and hold down the fort.
While Yang Xu was preparing to approach the garbage island.
Yi Ying said to the live stream:
“Don’t make a fuss, although the Pacific Ocean is remote, the changes in ocean currents will form whirlpools, which will gather these floating objects together, forming long garbage belts.”
That was indeed the case.
The viewers could clearly see from the footage from the live drone.
The plastic garbage was imprinted with various national languages.
European countries, American countries, Asian countries, all of them.
Therefore, this was the ‘peculiar sight’ formed by the combined garbage from countries along the entire Pacific coast.
It wasn’t beautiful, it was even shocking.
But, it was enough to be shocking!
【Is Brother Xu going to approach the garbage island? The density of these plastic wastes is terrifying.】
【I saw the dead seabirds, I saw the fish bones, they must have been trapped by the garbage island and died, right?】
【I think Brother Xu’s discovery will attract the attention of environmental organizations worldwide!】
Under the gaze of 1.7 million viewers in the live stream.
Yang Xu put on his diving suit, and the jet ski was lowered from the yacht’s swim platform into the sea.
In the eyes of the viewers.
Brother Xu was going to visit the Pacific ‘garbage island’ up close!
In fact, Yang Xu’s real purpose was to look for rare creatures.
As for this garbage gathered in the ocean?
Yang Xu wasn’t interested at all.
He wasn’t an employee of an animal welfare or environmental organization, why would he bother?
Using the guise of visiting the garbage island.
Diving to find the D-class rare cnidarian.
That was Yang Xu’s real goal!
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(The picture shows that the total area of the ‘Pacific garbage patch’ is equal to the land area of three European countries. Please give flowers and evaluation tickets~)