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An American diver broke the record for deepest submarine dive ever and found something disheartening at the bottom of the ocean — a plastic bag. Victor Vescovo traveled seven miles down to the deepest part of the ocean, Mariana Trench in the Pacific, BBC News reports
During his four-hour excursion, Vescovo spotted new sea creatures — as well as a plastic bag and candy wrappers. The dive was recorded for "Deep Planet," a series that will air on Discovery Channel later this year.
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The scientists plan on testing the creatures they collected to see if they contain microplastics. This is a widespread problem for sea creatures, even those living extremely deep in the ocean, a recent study has found.
"It is almost indescribable how excited all of us are about achieving what we just did," Vescovo told BBC News. "This submarine and its mother ship, along with its extraordinarily talented expedition team, took marine technology to a ridiculously higher new level by diving — rapidly and repeatedly — into the deepest, harshest, area of the ocean."
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The team dove to the bottom of the Mariana Trench five times, BBC News reports. It was part of Vescovo's "Five Deeps expedition," his attempt to explore the deepest parts of all five oceans. Vescovo, a private equity investor, is funding the expeditions. Previously, he climbed the highest peaks on each of the planet's seven continents.
The first deep dive into the Mariana Trench was in 1960, when U.S. Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh and Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard ventured into the deep abyss of the Pacific Ocean.
In 2012, movie director James Cameron made a solo trip into the Mariana Trench.
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On the deepest dive ever made by a human inside a submarine , a Texas Vescovo, the Dallas-based co-founder of Insight Equity Holdings, a private equity fund, found the manmade material on the ocean floor and is trying to confirm that it is plastic , said Stephanie Fitzherbert, a spokeswoman for
Vescovo has lead dives in the Atlantic's Puerto Rico Trench, the South Sandwich Trench and the Indian Ocean's Java Trench. Next, he will attempt to reach the bottom of the Arctic Ocean's Molloy Deep.
The extreme pressure and darkness make it extremely challenging to travel deep beneath the sea and capture images. The pressure at the bottom of the ocean is equal to about 50 jumbo jets piled on top of a person, according to BBC News.
When the Five Deeps expedition is complete, the researchers plan to pass their findings onto science institutions, which will continued to use their information for studies.
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Plastic has had a far-reaching effect on the landscape of earth, with South Pacific’s Henderson Island being the most plastic polluted island in the world. Scientists have discovered that the island, whose beaches were once UNESCO World Heritage sites, is now littered with approximately 37.7 million pieces of plastic.
Here’s a look at some other places where the indiscriminate use of plastic is taking a toll on the planet, and how countries are reacting to the mounting global crisis.
(Pictured) Piles of garbage at the Korgashino solid waste landfill in the town of Mytishchi, outside Moscow, Russia.
On March 27, 2019, the European parliament voted to ban single-use plastics across the EU by 2021. The law was passed in an attempt to tackle increasing plastic pollution on beaches and in oceans.
(Pictured) Plastic waste sits on a freshly cultivated field in Nauen, Germany on September 9, 2018.
In December 2018, Peru passed a law banning the single-use plastic bags. The country has also restricted the use of single-use plastics in its natural and cultural protected areas and national museums.
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(Pictured) Groups of volunteers clean up plastic waste on a beach in Lima, during the World Environment Day on June 5, 2018.
According to studies by World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan, some remote beaches along the coast of the country such as Gwadar and Kund Malir are littered with plastic, posing serious risk to marine life.
(Pictured) Ragpickers collect recyclable materials from plastic bags in Karachi on May 14, 2018.
In 2014, the government of the African country introduced a ban on plastic bags used for packaging water to reduce pollution.
(Pictured) Plastic items and other debris are seen on Vridi beach in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on November 21, 2018.
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In February 2016, the country launched a campaign to reduce the use of plastic bags and asked retailers to charge consumers up to $0.37 (IDR 5,000) for each plastic bag used.
(Pictured) Plastic waste that washed ashore following strong waves on Sanur beach in Bali on April 12, 2018.
According to Ocean Conservancy, a non-profit environmental group, more than half of the plastic waste in the oceans comes from five countries — Indonesia, China, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
(Pictured) A reservoir area with various types of marine fish seen contaminated with plastic waste in Lhokseumawe, Aceh province, Indonesia on March 22, 2019.
The Thames Estuary shoreline, a feeding ground for wading birds and other marine wildlife, has been battling plastic pollution. According to Thames River Watch surveys, plastic bottles make up 10 percent of all litter items on the river shore.
(Pictured) Plastics and other detritus line the shore of the Thames Estuary in Cliffe on Jan. 2, 2018.
The government promised $81.5M (£61M) to fight plastic pollution in the world's oceans in April 2018, and in October 2018 joined over 250 organisations in signing the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment to tackle global plastic waste and pollution.
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(Pictured) Volunteers pose for photographers with a Valentine's Day heart-shaped collection of plastic bottles they made from bottles that were lying washed up nearby on the north bank of the River Thames in London on Feb. 9, 2018.
More than two thousand volunteers turned up for a mass rubbish clean-up at Turtle Cove in Lamma Island after environment campaigners warned that plastic is killing marine wildlife, especially sea turtles who consume bags mistaking them for jellyfish.
(Pictured) Items collected by participants taking part in the beach clean-up drive on Lamma Island on May 27, 2018.
In an attempt to curb plastic pollution, fishermen in Livorno organized a project called Arcipelago Pulito in 2018, in which they collect plastic caught in their fishing nets and bring ashore to recycle at a specialized plant. Each fish haul contains around 10 percent plastic waste.
(Pictured) A view of bales of plasmix ready to be recycled in Pontedera on May 24, 2018.
Scientists at the University of Bergen retrieved 30 plastic bags from the stomach of a dead whale on the west coast in 2017. The country manages to recycle over 90 percent of its plastic bottles. They have installed reverse vending machines at places for people to throw their waste. These machines are later taken to specialized recycling areas. Over 600 million plastic bottles were recycled in 2016.
(Pictured) Waste is seen during a beach clean-up drive off the coast of Norway, on April 25, 2018.
Approximately 10 million plastic bags are used every day in the country’s capital Phnom Penh alone, according to anti-poverty organization ACRA in 2015.
(Pictured) Trash strewn on Long Beach in Koh Rong Island on Feb. 14, 2018.
Out of all the European nations, the highest demand of plastic is in Germany, according to PlasticsEurope. Their 2018 plastics report stated that Germany accounts for 24.6% of European plastic converter demand.
(Pictured) Bits of plastic and other trash lie gathered during a clean-up on a riverfront public area on March 31, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
On Jan. 1, 2018, the country imposed a ban on recycling the globe’s dump, leaving many nations, like the U.S., in the lurch. The U.S. had been exporting more than 1.42 million tons of scrap plastics annually to China for recycling.
(Pictured) Plastic waste washed ashore on the coastal strip of Shanghai on May 13, 2018.
The country discards about 1.83 tons of plastic waste that winds up in the oceans.
(Pictured) A woman gathers shells in a coastal forest littered with waste stuck in branches, after it was washed up by rising coastal tide in Thanh Hóa on May 18, 2018.
The country banned single-use plastic products from Jan. 1, 2018, after joining the CleanSeas campaign against ocean pollution, during the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, in December 2017. The goal of the country is to make its ocean and coastline pollution-free by 2030.
(Pictured) Egrets gather in a garbage dump at Kadirana on May 6, 2018.
As part of World Earth Day 2018 celebrations on April 22, Afghanistan joined other nations by carrying out a clean-up operation at Hashmat Khan Lake in conjunction with the theme "End Plastic Pollution."
(Pictured) A woman walks next to a pile of plastic bags in Kabul on May 6, 2018.
The country’s Pollution Control Department has reported that its plastic waste is increasing at the annual rate of 12 percent, or around 2 million tonnes.
(Pictured) Bottle caps are collected to be sent to recycle factory for processing in Nakhon Pathom on Aug. 4, 2017.
A sperm whale was found dead on a Spanish beach in April 2018. An autopsy revealed that the whale had 29 kilos of plastic in its stomach, which blocked its digestive system and caused its death.
(Pictured) Waste lies on the ground during the Tamborrada, the Drum Festival held in the city of San Sebastián on Jan. 20, 2018.
In 2017, volunteers collected 148,636 pieces of plastic, 77,434 food wrappers and 46,041 plastic bottle caps during a one-day coastal clean-up operation at a California beach.
(Pictured) Plastic bottles wash into the Tidal Basin after heavy rains in Washington, D.C., on May 19, 2018.
Stores across the country began charging for plastic bags from Jan. 1, 2018. Notably, only 16 percent of the country’s trash is recycled, compared to the EU’s average of 44 percent, according a news report published by the Associated Press.
(Pictured) Earthmovers push mountains of garbage as seagulls fly over the country's largest landfill at Fyli, Attica on Feb. 7, 2018.
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