Ocean Futures has produced fascinating projects including "Voyage To Kure" in which sadly we can find evidence of trash at the bottom of the oceans in the most remote regions.
This is the blog report on the spill in the Gulf:
The Ocean Futures Society's team and I have been onsite at the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, but with heavy hearts we have to return to Santa Barbara, California. With your help though, we will go back.
This spill will be a tragedy of massive proportions for decades to come for the ocean and our global environment and especially for the people and wildlife of the Gulf coast.
The OFS team had a chance to see this tragedy up close and from under water. Diving more than 30 miles off the Louisiana coast, they were the first divers to see oil as far as the eye could see. Updates and footage are on our website and being aired on CNN, ABC Nightly News, and CBS Evening News, with requests for coverage from Discovery Channel and Associated Press.more
http://oceanfutures.org/news/blog/crude-awakeningIf you can - please support their efforts...