We're tagging on the California coast, and we're tagging over in Taiwan and Japan.

I then, in the last few years,

And it ended up in the Boise River and then on to the Columbia River and then to the mouth of the Columbia and to the Pacific Ocean and then on to this place called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch which is this giant Pacific gyre in the North Pacific, where a lot of this plastic ends up floating around and then back onto the lagoon.

We can cut the stem tide the stem of this into our oceans and in doing so, save our oceans, save our planet, save ourselves.

I wasn't just concerned about plastic that you're trying to imagine out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean of which I have learned there are now 11 gyres, potentially, of plastic in five major oceans in the world.

pinch a minnow, hurt a whale.

We'll look at sea level rise.

So stay tuned for further information.

The equalization of the oceanic

And the list of scientific applications is growing every day.

like black carbon, that is soot.

(Laughter)

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

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.

But what we also know is that species like these sea turtles do not stay put in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape.

And so you can see this current coming up in this case, the Humboldt Current that comes all the way out to the Galapagos Islands, and this deep undersea current, the Cromwell Current, that upwells around the Galapagos.

Japan is also surrounded by oceans.

WOMAN ( over radio ) The yacht Tranquilizer.

And Dave Gallo signed on.

After ten years, a lot of the Japanese caps are in what we call the Eastern Garbage Patch, while ours litter the Philippines.

there's the current.

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...?

We need to cut the spigot of single use and disposable plastics, which are entering the marine environment every day on a global scale.

That sea beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream.

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!

Japan is a country with advanced environmental technologies.

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

But I miss the sea already.

We're only just beginning to understand how the physical oceanography and the biological oceanography come together to create a seasonal force that actually causes the upwelling that might make a hot spot a hope spot.

There are four oceans in the world.

I've taken them camping in the kelp forests of California.

Algae. It infected marine life.

Finis!

I can cross it as many times as I want!

The river flows into the Pacific Ocean.

Right after I completed my Ph.D.,