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Marine debris comes in all shapes and sizes. It can vary from large trawl nets, accidentally discarded or lost at sea, to plastic pieces smaller than a grain of rice that float throughout the water column.

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A dive crew transporting derelict fishing gear back to shore after a removal expedition.
Naguabo fishing vessel returning to shore to offload derelict fishing gear.
A sunken vessel is viewed underwater and is located in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Three boats have run aground in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
A derelict vessel in Panama City, Florida after Hurricane Michael
Hurricane Florence debris collected in the coastal marshes of North Carolina.
A person bends down to pick up some lumber in a pile that was created by a hurricane in North Carolina.
Removing dock debris, with large construction equipment, left in the wake of Hurricane Florence.
A sailboat, left in the wake of Hurricane Irma, being lifted out of the marsh and maritime forest edge in Charleston Harbor.
The South Beach of Gore Point on the Kenai Peninsula, a noted “catcher” beach for marine debris.
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