NASA scientific visualization Lab's Garbage patch visualization experiment

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4174

Video of garbage patch formation

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004100/a004...

About drifters:

https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/gdp/faq.php#drifter1

Drifter's data

view-source:https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/drifter_deaths.html

https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/dirall.html