Richard Pain’s swim will take him through what is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area of rubbish the size of Queensland floating in the ocean.
“My plan is to build a giant recycled plastic water bottle out of thousands of smaller recycled plastic water bottles, and then use that as an enclosure or shark cage to then swim from Japan to America, through what is called the North Pacific Gyre or Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” he said.
“It’s an area, and some estimates vary, at least the size of Texas, full of plastic… down to about a depth of six metres, so it’s an environmental catastrophe.
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