I sailed the prevailing winds westerlies into the horse laditudes or the middle north latitudes till we came into where the doldrums are, were 2 different wind patterns meet & the sea comes to a smooth ocean of glass & there's hardly a current of a breath of wind. This was back in the late 70's. That's were all the sea trash meets &ends up & goes nowhere. We salvage netted flotting sea glass balls until we had no place to store them. They can be sold onshore. We thought on day we had hooked a great size blue fish, turned out to be a blue laundry basket, of course it was empty. We found what at the time both crusie ships & airliners had jetsoned mid ocean, I believe even back then there may have been laws prohibiting such waste dumping. but it was a dump back then I can only imigine what's it like now. Even the dead horses would high-tail it out fo there. Sad statement. The West Coast is not yet a dying zone as is the Northeast but it is following fast.

Barry