High tide of trash in Durban Port, South Africa, last Friday 26 April 2019. This was the aftermath of torrential rains that took over 70 lives and thousands of homes in KZN province.
Credit: Garnett Wilson

Diver Rich Horner has captured video of himself swimming through water densely strewn with plastic waste and yellowing food wrappers, with the occasional tropical fish darting around.

The footage was shot at a dive site called Manta Point, a cleaning station for the large rays on the island of Nusa Penida, about 20 km from the popular Indonesian holiday island of Bali.

The plastic polluting our oceans has reached the ‘pristine’ Arctic ocean and Norway’s arctic fiords. The main part, weight-wise, is from fisheries.