Wildlife

Plastic instead of Coral

A team of divers cleaning up the waters off Greece’s Andros Island said they found a “gulf full of plastic coral.”

Waving on the ocean floor like a forest of kelp, the plastic debris probably wound up there eight years ago when a nearby makeshift landfill collapsed into the sea.

It was “like the paradise of the Caribbean Sea, where you find coral reefs everywhere of every color. It was the exact same thing, but instead of coral, it was bags,” said diver Arabella Ross with the group Aegean Rebreath.