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What our design does to clean the ocean is there is a ramp that is lowed down 5-10 feet to scoop up and collect the garbage. Once the garbage is collected, it goes through a conveyor belt system that sifts the garbage for things that are not suppose to be in the ocean. Throughout the duration of this all, the ship will give off an irritating vibration and sounds that makes the fish and other species get out of the way of the ship. All the garbage that is taken out is put into the back of the ship where everything will pile up. When it gets filled and no more garbage can be held, a series of cargo ships take the garbage to the Co-Generation plant for it to be processed. After all that, the ships continue to go back out to the garbage patch and repeats the process. Eventually, after a long time process hopefully we will be one step closer to cleaning up the world's biggest garbage patch in the ocean.

Transportation

From the Ocean sweeper the garbage and debris that is collected into the collection chamber of the sweeper will be moved to cargo ship to be transported to the Co-Generation location. The ship that will transport this garbage from the sweeper to the co- gen. location is the New Panamax cargo ship. This is huge and will have ample space for all the garbage collected because it is 1,200 ft. long and 160.7 ft. wide.