But now, according to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), its course has been interrupted after becoming trapped in an ocean vortex ... in a rotating cylinder of water called a Taylor column.

Researchers from the Ocean Cleanup just conducted a survey of plastic in the area, using boats to trawl the water and conducting ... more like a massive swirling vortex that's over three times ...

But the vortex, scientists say, only got into its modern grove 12-14 million years ago. Sea ice is simply frozen ocean water. It forms, grows, and melts in the ocean. It floats on the surface of ...

Much of the debris that ends up in the North Pacific Ocean gets drawn into the North Pacific Gyre by currents. The North Pacific Gyre is a swirling vortex of water made up of four prevailing ...