Took the specail boat through the "Great garbage patch". It is a huge area in the pacific with 3.5 billion kilogrammes of rubbish. You can see every kind of human rubbish here
How well did the Plastiki survive the journey?
The jouney wasn't always easy and De and his crew had to take care during storms. There were giant ocean waves and winds of over one hundred and twenty nine days. Originally, He thougtthe boat coould only travel once but it survived so well that he planning to sail it again one day.