Meet Your Local Garbage Patch: Surface to Seafloor Marine Debris Cleanup in Boston Harbor and the Gulf of Maine

The oceanic garbage patches get a lot of press, but do you
know what is floating right here in Boston Harbor? The Rozalia Project uses
underwater robots, nets, and hands to clean our ocean from surface to seafloor
while studying the problem and running education programs. They operate from
aboard the 60-foot sailing vessel American Promise in the Gulf of Maine and
Massachusetts Bay as well as from partner docks and vessels throughout the U.S.
Rachael Miller, Rozalia Project’s founder and executive director, will lead an
introduction about the problem of marine debris in our waters here in New
England (as well as those thousands of miles away) and follow up with Rozalia
Project’s trash-hunting adventures, including getting attacked by a lobster,
freeing an octopus and making some unusual finds while picking up more than
500,000 pieces of ocean trash with 10,500 participants all over the U.S.