Well, there's also another program, in another agency within our government, in ocean exploration.

Japan is a country with advanced environmental technologies.

Dr. Satoshi Takada. Marine biologist. Lieutenant Commander for the Navy since 1997.

And, in 1972, this nation began to establish a counterpart in the sea,

And voila, next day air, they show up, and they surgically reattach them.

You've got drones now being considered for domestic surveillance.

Director of Homeland Security, member of my cabinet.

We'll map it within hours, have the maps disseminated out to the major universities.

Through the national reconnaissance office.

pinch a minnow, hurt a whale.

We'll look at sea level rise.

For a variety of reasons they're dangerous, but we feel that OOl, this Ocean Observatory Initiative, which the National Science Foundation has begun to fund, has the potential to really transform things.

So stay tuned for further information.

They basically are one nation that controls most of the equatorial waters of the Central Pacific Ocean.

The equalization of the oceanic

It shifted the Earth's tectonic plates, sped up the planet's rotation and literally shortened the length of the day.

The new Mario game is an underwater adventure where he solves the mystery of an ancient kingdom sunk to the bottom of the sea.

And the list of scientific applications is growing every day.

like black carbon, that is soot.

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There we are today.

I've been working on ocean pollution for quite a long time the impacts on marine life and particularly the impacts on marine mammals.

And there are a lot of other pressures.

We made a chip that has every known virus ever discovered on it.

We'll look at ocean warming.

I bought a computer that I gave to the Pirate Bureau.

The Anti Piracy Bureau is the reactive part.

Feds are taking him to Homeland.

Japan is also surrounded by oceans.

WOMAN ( over radio ) The yacht Tranquilizer.

And Dave Gallo signed on.

With buses and stuff. The buses were the Pirate Bureau.

Revenue Canada.

And Homeland Security, for whom I consult, has assigned me to review Fringe division.

It's NSA a secure facility outside of Baltimore.

N.S.A.'s still working on the Suspect Zero video.

In the early '70s,

But it's not just the carbonate producers that are affected.

One of these days we will. ( mellow theme playing ) WOMAN ( over radio )

And we're letting industry run the show.

Well, I could stand here for hours, but, of course, I'm not allowed to do that.

Well, law, Soylent, oceanography...?

How long till we get to DHS?

To me, the most mind bending example of the interconnectedness of the ocean comes from an acoustic experiment where oceanographers took a ship to the southern Indian Ocean, deployed an underwater loudspeaker and played back a sound.

If it's too big or too toxic for a landfill, deep six it!