We couldn't resist stopping to pick up this glass ball while motoring through the Pacific high.

The only problem was that there was this whole ecosystem living underneath it: muscles, crabs and little fish, all in harmony in the middle of the Pacific.

So we extricated them from their home and tied them onto a milk jug.

We know it's illegal to throw plastic in the ocean, but we didn't want to leave the little creatures to drown (and we really wanted the ball!).