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The public first became aware of this dumping around 2021 in a Los Angeles Times article, showed that deep sea robot surveys found barrels all over the sea floor. In 2021 and 2023, there was a follow-up survey performed by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California that identified 27,000 shapes that looked like barrels, and more than 100,000 total debris on the ocean floor that is accompanying them. Stopping again.