A drone discovered a new continent in the Pacific Ocean

Marine researchers have discovered using drones in the Pacific permanent islands of garbage most likely formed after the destruction caused by the tsunami.

"Great Pacific garbage patch", also known as "Pacific trash vortex" is the accumulation place of a variety of plastic waste beeing a major source of pollution in the North Pacific Ocean and threatening the local ecosystem.

Although the area the size of Texas, is known by researchers for a long time, a group of marine explorers has recently attracted attention as a phenomenon grew. It is shown by images taken using drones.

"We're in the most polluted area in the world," explained research team which will spend 30 days on a ship in the North Pacific. Great Vortex in the North Pacific Ocean with marine currents collect tons of plastic waste that is deposited on the surface forming islands permanent and affect the ecosystem of the area.

"Plastic waste created this new habitats, meaning 'coral plastic' in which marine creatures made ​​their new home," explained the researchers. They warn that ocean surface exist in reality much more trash than previously thought. The team says the debris caused by the tsunami's devastation in Japan, 2011, miniature islands in the area. One of them weighs about 7 tons.

Oceanographers talking about a seventh continent, a huge plate of waste that increases from year to year and has six times the size of France, says newspaper Le Monde.

It is a lot of pieces of plastic, bottles, pots, bags, broken objects floating on the surface or to a depth of 30 meters. They are hard to see from a distance. This phenomenon of plastic islands, hardly visible from space, is available in five major oceanic basins: the North and South Pacific, North and South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean.