In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

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Standing on the island's remote shoreline brings ... thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you probably ...

Discover what causes huge quantities of garbage to end up on the most remote islands in the world and ... Much of the debris that ends up in the North Pacific Ocean gets drawn into the North ...

The island is in the Caribbean Sea, not the Pacific Ocean, therefore it cannot be part of the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Thus, the above social media posts have miscaptioned the photo. In a ...