For College of Charleston undergraduates Daniel Hodge and Coti Phillips, who interned on an earlier leg of that cruise as far as Bermuda, pulling in those nets was a wake-up call.

“I was expecting to see bottles, plastic bags. It was almost the perfect size for plankton, for small animals to be eating,” Phillips said.

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