The ocean is 41 million square miles. That's 82,000 square miles per sample, from only 13 ships, or over 3 million square miles per ship. The accuracy of their

The ocean is 41 million square miles. That's 82,000 square miles per sample, from only 13 ships, or over 3 million square miles per ship. The accuracy of their model would have to be incredible, assuming those boats weren't jet powered racing boats. It would be interesting to see the coordinates of each sample. I assume we'll see something unimpressive since, as the article points out, the data containing many times the samples does not agree, suggesting this did not use the appropriate statistical methods/sampling.