The Creatures That Thrive in the Pacific Garbage Patch

Watch the additional video I made about the sacred pact between orcas and humans that allowed them to work together to hunt off the coast of Australia: https://nebula.tv/videos/realscience-when-orcas-and-humans-worked-together Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/realscience-the-secret-sea-life-in-the-pacific-garbage-patch Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/realscience Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephaniesammann Images Courtesy of Getty Images Thanks to Dr. Rebecca Helm Credits: Narrator: Stephanie Sammann Writer: Lorraine Boissoneault Editor: Dylan Hennessy (https://www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1) Illustrator: Jacek Ambrożewski Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (https://kpatart.com/illustrations) Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/) Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net) Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster (https://twitter.com/forgottentowel) Producer: Brian McManus (https://www.youtube.com/c/realengineering) REFERENCES [1] https://www.americanoceans.org/facts/ocean-gyres-facts/ [2] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sargassosea.html [3] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Biology_of_the_Pacific_Ocean_Zenkevoch_L/QTIUAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=pleuston&pg=PT12&printsec=frontcover [4] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-64465-8 [5] https://www.keybiscayne.fl.gov/news_detail_T8_R248.php [6] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-51842-1 [7] https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001046 [8] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12526-021-01233-5#Sec22 [9] https://www.int-res.com/articles/meps_oa/m662p069.pdf [10] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22939-w] [11] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01997-y [12] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-64465-8 [13] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.7b04682 [14] https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001646 [15] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X22010517?via%3Dihub