EXAMPLE: Anna Cummins and her husband Marcus Eriksen are experts on ocean trash. (Photo courtesy 5 Gyres) INDIAN OCEAN — Officials believe they're narrowing down the search for the debris from ...

How a Piece of a Boeing 777 Drifted 2,300 Miles. Indian Ocean debris moves in predictable patterns and confirms searchers are looking in the right spot for the missing plane.

Two currents impact this area of the ocean: the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which races almost unbridled around the bottom of the world, and the Indian Ocean Gyre, which swirls around the ...

The Indian Ocean Gyre is known to trap large volumes of debris in the southern Indian Ocean as currents here are very weak and show little to no movement over long periods of time, Javaheri said.

Historical map of the Indian Ocean Gyre [source: wikipedia] Both the South Equatorial Current and the West Australian current are part of the larger Indian Ocean gyre, a giant rotating vortex of water ...

The Indian Ocean's garbage patch is centered roughly halfway between Africa and Australia. 0:15 The term "patch" suggests this floating detritus is packed together in an oceanic version of a landfill.

Though the oceans are home to many gyres, there are five—the North Atlantic Gyre, the South Atlantic Gyre, the North Pacific Gyre, the South Pacific Gyre, and the Indian Ocean Gyre—that have a ...