"Charles Moore, an American oceanographer who discovered the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" or "trash vortex", believes that about 100 million tons of flotsam are circulating in the region.

In 1997 Captain Charles Moore was sailing from Hawaii to California when he noticed a steady stream of plastics bobbing in the ocean. He had discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Captain Charles Moore first discovered what came to be called the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," in 1997. Since that discovery, he's dedicated his life to battling plastic pollution in the ocean.

It’s called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Capt. Charles Moore, the Long Beach man who more than a decade ago discovered the garbage patch, will set out on another voyage this summer to study ...

About 15 years after first discovering the great Pacific garbage patch, Capt. Charles Moore returned in 2014 and discovered that semi-permanent islands made of ropes, buoys and other detritus were ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is growing in size each day with plastic waste from countries all over the world, ... It was discovered by the yachtsman Charles Moore in 1997 during a yacht race.

One was Charles Moore, who discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 1997. I had met him before on land, but it was amazing to see him on his boat in the Garbage Patch. He returns throughout ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was first discovered in 1997 by oceanographer Charles Moore when he sailed home to Southern California after finishing the Transpacific Yacht Race, ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has received a lot of attention over the last couple decades. But for all the media coverage, researchers still didn't know a lot about it, until now. As Laura ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch first caught public attention in 1997, after yachtsman Charles Moore sailed through remote ocean waters and documented toothbrushes, soap bottles and fishing nets ...

In 1997 Captain Charles Moore was sailing from Hawaii to California when he noticed a steady stream of plastics bobbing in the ocean. He had discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.