Sightings included beaked, baleen and sperm whales, and a mother with her very young calf.
The survey consisted of two flights, during which sensors were deployed and visual surveys were undertaken in order to create a"map" of the plastic from the sky. They saw at least 14 cetaceans, including three sperm whales—including a mother and her very young calf—three beaked whales and two baleen whales.
In March, a marine biologist based in the Philippines found 88 pounds of plastic in the stomach of Cuvier's beaked whale. Just four months earlier, a sperm whale was found in Indonesia with over 1,000 pieces of plastic in its stomach, including a pair of flip flops and 115 drinking cups.Whales that use the Great Pacific Garbage Patch as a core habitat or as a migration route, the researchers said, are at risk of getting entangled or ingesting this debris.
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