Now, scientists have discovered one of these massive blobs in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean; extending from the tip of Brazil to the Gulf of Guinea.

The Pacific Ocean, with its lower salinity levels, meets the saltier waters of the Atlantic, creating a gradient that encourages mixing.

Coastal species have been found living on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the middle of the ocean, according to a study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution journal.

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As spotted by Redditors, Google Maps' Street View is populating ghostly, liminal-looking commercial interiors in the middle of the ocean.

The closest major ocean is the Atlantic and it’s nowhere near the Pacific. Simply put, the North Sea and the Pacific Ocean never meet.

Until the Atlantic Equatorial Water's discovery, scientists had spotted waters mixing along the equator in the Pacific and Indian oceans, but never in the Atlantic.

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

In the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, they prey on the deadly Portuguese man-o-war. In marine waters of the Indo-Pacific they eat the man-o-war’s counterpart, the bluebottle jellyfish.