In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer Caroline Power captured the picture, which shows a large area ...

The sea is blanketed in a foul-smelling brownish-yellow, seaweed (called Sargassum) and has become home to a nightmarish manmade island, dubbed the North Atlantic Garbage Patch. And yet ...

In a part of the ocean known as the North Pacific Gyre ... This is the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is not an actual floating island of garbage, but which is filled with floating ...