While the wood in the study was placed there by scientists, wood naturally finds its way intothe ocean as dead trees fallinto rivers and are swept out to sea, when storm debris is taken by surging waters and even from shipwrecks.
We understand this is something that has never been done but in 1492 Christopher Columbus went out intothesea and everybody told him he was going to fall off the end of the world but with his risk and passion we now know the earth is round and without his will and guts we would not be where we are today.