“They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits end.
Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Then they are glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired heaven.
Oh that men would praise the Lord, for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men.” Psalm 107: 24-31

                                              The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

God created the oceans, vast, powerful, truly magnificent and yet terrible in power and might. Through the ages man has sought to conquer them for his own conceits and imaginations. In the past, the oceans that were so vast and powerful that their dominance over mankind was intact; man had to respect the might of the ocean. Over time and through his inventions, man began to exert some of his innovation over the oceans by learning to navigate them in the vessels they built so that they could travel throughout the whole earth. With the ever more seaworthy vessels and new technologies, man began to exploit the oceans in terms of making avenues of trade and in harvesting the bounty that the oceans contained. This increased traffic on the seas produced the by-products of human waste and trash. Add to the trash and other waste coming from shore, and the effects of nuclear testing in the oceans, and nuclear accidents, and from tsunami damage and now they are inundated by man and his perverse inventions and carelessly discarded waste and refuse. The oceans and the marine life that inhabit it are being overcome by man and his interference. He is achieving the conquest he sought, with some disastrous consequences. Based on what is stated in prophecy, there is an inevitable result, reserved for the time of the end. Rev. 16:3 “And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.” See article; The River Will Become Blood

“But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.”  Isaiah 57:20-21

When Malaysian Air #370 disappeared in the Indian Ocean, the world wondered for months what became of it and the passengers. Some nine months later, on Reunion Island, a beachcomber discovered a piece of metal junk that had washed up on the beach. The experts were called in to look at it and it appeared to be from a Boeing 777 aircraft, the same model as the missing Malaysian Airliner. In a few months it was confirmed it was from the missing airliner. A few more months passed and some more debris turned up hundreds of miles away from the first piece recovered. Since then, debris has turned up on the African mainland, and the Islands of Madagascar, Mauritius, and Rodrigus, and the debris has proved to all be from the same missing aircraft. The point is, the currents and waves can break up solid objects in relatively short periods of time at sea and scatter them over a broad area. Not only that, the seas can break down the organic materials in the process. But the plastics that are disposed of so frequently and carelessly by sea traffic, can take a long time to disintegrate. They break up readily, and are even transformed chemically, but they do not disintegrate entirely. As a result, they become small bits and pieces that end up in the marine food chain and it is killing ocean life and getting into our food supply through the fish people ingest.

The “islands” of trash in the oceans are not singular, but there are currently six separate clusters in the world’s oceans, and scientists do not even have an accurate means of measuring their true area and size. The debris fields are estimated to be at least as big as one of our larger states. Much of the debris has been broken down to small pieces that do not necessarily float on the surface of the water. The following image displays the approximate locations of each body of plastic and refuse, trapped in the currents known as a gyre. The largest of these gyres is located in the West Pacific area, and near it is the East Pacific gyre, close to the United States. The problem is, that this is by no means in a small area and very difficult to police adequately. On top of it all, there are no definitive plans to address the issue, just a lot of talk by environmentalists.

                                           Map of locations of Six Ocean Gyres

Where does all of this sea refuse come from in particular? – the plastic? It comes from large industrial fishing vessels, lost shipping containers that fall off of large cargo ships, abandoned ghost ships, other marine traffic, and predominantly from land sources, i.e. storm drains, rivers and beaches. The trash is generally common household trash of plastic bags and bottles that come from the shore sources. The currents sweep the trash out to sea where it is broken down and swept into the currents and eventually gathers into the gyres.  Reference Citation see note below: 

All of the photos of the debris islands are really sickening to look at and scientists and marine ecologists are at a loss as to what can be done about them. Even if some brilliant team of scientists invented a means of harvesting the refuse and recycling it, the businesses and populace that contributed the problem are still doing what they have always done, which is to litter or dump waste into the oceans from their vessels or on the shoreline. It is unrealistic to think authorities could enforce or police littering and dumping in the oceans. The only other option is to stop producing the plastics that are being discarded and is very unlikely that will occur because it is a source of big money worldwide. Whatever man contrives to fix the problem, the damage is already done, vast quantities of plastic that is not biodegradable, is in the oceans and man is already reaping some fruits of his carelessness in the food chain. What will happen for a certainty, is what God said would take place during the Great Tribulation, the seas will turn to blood and everything in it will die as referenced above. Upon his return, Jesus will restore the oceans for a time during his reign of a thousand years or the Millennium but a clean-up of the oceans will not occur as a result of man’s doing.

“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband  for it,
And break up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
And from the wicked their light is witholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in search of the depth?
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.” Job 38:8-18

What can one do who is looking for a way out of all the madness we find ourselves in? You can turn your heart to Jesus Christ, and trust him whom the Father in Heaven has sent to redeem us from this present evil world. These ills will not be cured or solved by man. Evidently, the seas are not part of God’s ultimate plan for the habitation of Man. We, of course, do not understand this right now, so we must trust in Him. People will do well to trust God and His Son Jesus Christ for everything, including, the future and God’s ultimate purpose and plan for those who are faithful in believing in His ultimate perfection in all things. God’s answer to Job so many millennia ago, is the same to man today. God decries “Who do you think you are mankind?” You built the Tower of Babel, invented massive sailing vessels, nuclear missiles and other kinds of warfare, devised “better living through plastic” that we all believe we need, and so many more of man’s ways to live life without God and even defy Him. No one can deny that we have created an ecological nightmare. Our imaginations are powerful and they continue to create and design new ways to pervert creation. “And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” Gen. 11: 5-6

There is a day coming where the seas will be no more. The Book of Revelation states that at the conclusion of Jesus’ 1000 year reign on this Earth, the Father will have a new Heaven and a new Earth for all His redeemed creation and they will live with Him and His son forever and it will be glorious and perfect. “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.” Rev. 21:1

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Citation Note: [By JOHN SCHWARTZ NYT FEB. 12, 2015 – “Some eight million metric tons of plastic waste makes its way into the world’s oceans each year, and the amount of the debris is likely to increase greatly over the next decade unless nations take strong measures to dispose of their trash responsibly, new research suggests.”
Schwartz cited the Journal of Science report by: – Jenna Jambeck, an assistant professor of environmental engineering at the University of Georgia and lead author of the study, said: ‘the amount of plastic that entered the oceans in the year measured, 2010, might be as little as 4.8 million metric tons or as much as 12.7 million.’
The paper’s middle figure of eight million, she said, is the equivalent of “five plastic grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline in the world” — a visualization that, she said, “sort of blew my mind.”]