The Smog of the Sea chronicles a 1-week journey through the remote waters of the Sargasso Sea. Marine scientist Marcus Eriks...

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I suppose I've always imagined the ocean

to be a kind of wilderness a place apart

when you grow weary of the van of the

pollution and power plants and plastic

bags catching in the tree limbs there's

always the wild untouched sea

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we're selling through the western edge

of the evacuation zone North Atlantic

there's no island when I sail out and

you watch the land the fades away get

this beautiful moment where you look

around

there's no way that stuff's getting out

here

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scientist named Marcus Ericsson gathered

a crew of researchers activists artists

and surfers to sail with him through the

Bermuda Triangle and see firsthand the

smog of the sea

these plastic items are so similar a lot

of animals can tell the difference I can

barely tell the difference sometimes

that we go through our sample how care

James and days away from land and it's

still here and this is just the surface

the public sees an island of trash it's

much worse than that

it is this fantastic smog of small

particles that are being ingested by

billions of organisms across

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too bad you can't identify you know what

products these are there's no one to

blame you know there's it's no culprit

just humanity shadows from the deep

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thoughts were afraid of secrets that

wiki surface of our love why can't we

with ourselves with what we open

witnessed these all came from the

stomach's of Laysan albatross some you

can read the phone numbers like right

there you can call that number and tell

that guy st. you top something hey buddy

we found your lighter was an albatross

stomach

you