Yeah, even the original scientific article didn't show the plastic bag itself. Had to go digging in the linked scientific database. Here's the entry for the plastic bag in the Mariana Trench, discovered in 1998 at 10,898 m (archive link to reduce burden of traffic): https://archive.is/qBl2y

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Photo (1801x1201): https://i.imgur.com/7RVIpJH.jpg

Video (480x360, 2:55): https://gfycat.com/RightBitesizedBrownbear

(Source: JAMSTEC deep sea debris database. Used for non-profit educational purposes.)

Amazing how the floor seems flat and even, down there. I would have expected... I don't really know, something looking more like the surface of the moon, that kind of thing.

Good work. I was digging around the original study looking for the gd photo. Some of the geo data was available but I have no idea where they buried the photo in there.

for some strange reason, journalists hate to link to other sources

Yeah, external links (or lack thereof) are a good quality marker. It's disheartening the amount of articles (etc) that omit the links used to source them.

That was weird for me too, the picture at the start of the article looked like a plastic bag in space.