If they could just salvage the long lost shipping container, Simonin-Le Meur said, perhaps Garfield would stop coming. "We were looking for it, but we had no precise idea of where it could be," Simonin-Le Meur said. One day last month, Simonin-Le Meur said she met Morvan on the beach while cleaning up debris - including a Garfield part. The shipping container, Morvan told her, was lodged so deep in the cave that it was nearly submerged, making the trip a dangerous expedition. Lionel Lucas, who developed the online Ocean Plastic Tracker that catalogues discoveries of Garfield, told Franceinfo the Garfield phone was a "symbol" for the movement.

Source: Stuff March 29, 2019 23:13 UTC