Last stop #pmdpHawaii ends the season at Midway.

“A whirlwind stop only for a few hours…to retrieve the 42,000 lbs of marine debris that our team had cleaned up….final total for this mission comes to 72,150 lbs….”

📸 by @sullivanhaskins

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#pmdphawaii update!

“Eclipsing 70,000 lbs of marine debris removed…this number included an 800 lb steel buoy that washed up just days before our arrival!

A big mahalo to Nick, Dwight, Jordan, and Kayla!

📸 by @sullivanhaskins

Thank you #pmdphawaii!

#PapahanaumokuakeaMarineDebrisProject
reminds us “…it’s hard to visualize the impact of nets on coral….Today we removed another 5,250 lbs and we are quickly nearing the 20,000 lb mark.”

📸 by @sullivanhaskins

Shared from #PMDP

“The question everyone asks…What happens to the marine debris when you get back to Honolulu?”
See their answer in comments.

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“We are quantifying debris within accumulation plots at Kuaihelani, so there is an ever growing list of items we are seeing here.
For a place so remote, it’s an astounding and humbling reminder of the interconnected nature of our consumer choices and the ocean.”

📸 by @sullivanhaskins

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