This is at the pristine Azores Islands and this is how their beaches look.

But the Indus people also left behind artifacts with writing on them.

I actually realized this was a bad thing.

What might they find?

Right now, the ocean is actually a soup of plastic debris, and there's nowhere you can go in the ocean where you wouldn't be able to find plastic particles.

It's the tip of a knife,Gibbs!

Meanwhile I'll get the glass under the table. Have you got a cloth?

You were not conscious...?

With some pebble, some chip of old Caucasus ceramics, and a fishing bell!

The sizzling sparks go leaping up!

Now the shreds of steel are melted down!

We're through the debris.

Not a splinter.

Put it back in its place!

There's a huge amount of debris. There's no way around it.

It's a perfect match.

There are the remains, you botching bungler!

I would guess it is a piece of a plate from Howard Johnson's.

The magnetic ring has moved, it's not working.

There's just a bunch of pieces of wood and chair...

That perhaps it was a piece of a satellite.

There were bits of broken glass on the floor.

These, no doubt, were caused by shards of glass. But these under the shirt...

Fragments of the mirror were scattered on the floor.

I cut my right hand on a piece of glass.

She cut her finger on the broken glass.

Now, I found the plate near the reef just on the other side.

Did any little piece fall on your property?

Well, the trawl we built, however, is 15 times finer than the regular one.

She gathered the pieces of the broken dish.

Procet has got a shard of glass, man.

My grandfather was an extraordinary man for his time.

This is a piece of the plate that we found in the Bahamas off of Topsail Cay.

He stuck the broken pieces together.

The device itself was an Armyissue M67 fragmentation grenade.

He was hit by a tiny bit of shrapnel.

The moment I do... are you gonna stick me with that broken piece of plate?

Due to sun and waves over the years the garbage breaks down into ever smaller pieces, but remains plastic.

S for small, and S for SDS.

Master

Sir, the enemy is attempting to flee through the debris field.

I took this shrapnel out myself.

But there has just been a study that was released in February that showed there are 200,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometer now floating in the surface of the Sargasso Sea, and that is affecting the habitat for the many species in their juvenile stages who come to the Sargasso Sea for its protection and its food.

The knife point fits perfectly into the the wound on the cervical vertebrae of the dog we unearthed yesterday.

It's brought me nothing but calamity!