The footage captured earlier this week by Rich Horner showed him swimming in Manta Point, a famous diving site about 20km from the popular tourist island.
He told the BBC the sight was "horrifying".
Is it normal to see so much plastic in Bali's waters?
It's no secret that Bali has a problem with rubbish, but even Mr Horner, a Bali resident, said he had "never seen anything on this scale" before.
Similarly, a diving travel consultant in Bali told the BBC that it was "quite uncommon" to see such a large amount of rubbish.
"We had visitors go out to Manta Point just one day before Mr Horner did and they experienced beautiful waters," said Adriana Simeonova of the Aquamarine Diving Site.
Where is it all coming from?
Bali sits in the middle of the Indonesian Throughflow, a current that streams from the Pacific Ocean into the Indian Ocean through the straits of Indonesia.
This means that plastic waste could either be local or brought in from as far away as the Pacific Ocean.
"The plastic I saw mainly had Indonesian labelling but because of the current could be coming from anywhere in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia [or] beyond," said Mr Horner.
Source: bbc
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