Accompanied by his unusual team of a goose, a duck and a dog, Dariusz Brzeski has been removing so-called ghost nets—discarded fishing gear that can continue to trap and kill fish, birds and marine mammals.
But while sorting through marine debris this week, he made an extraordinary find: a half-kilogram piece of amber.
"It’s truly incredible, and there’s a good chance it contains some kind of inclusions," Brzeski said in a video recorded at Poland’s Hel Peninsula.
"It feels very symbolic to me, this little reward was hiding in a place everyone else had simply ignored," he added.
Michał Owczarek has the story.
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