UW News
Andrey Shcherbina
January 18, 2018
Temporary ‘bathtub drains’ in the ocean concentrate flotsam
![white plastic drifter on ship deck](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/01/04132211/Drifter_Guillaume_Flickr-150x150.jpg)
An experiment using hundreds of plastic drifters in the Gulf of Mexico shows that rather than simply spread out, as current calculations would predict, many of them clumped together in a tight cluster.