she dragon was designed to sail around the world the wrong way so she actually porous best when she's healed over about forty five degrees sailing up with a seventy two feet long such point you see there is a pretty big gulp but also wondering are conducting fire if lot of people when i was going to go on the first don't think that if you cross the atlantic in twenty four team you say oh you heard crossing the atlantic with fourteen women and you know the chuckles would come in terms of oh man you guys we can rip each other's here out having all the ladies on board is pretty awesome. a lot of people say it can't be done but when proving them wrong step today i'm not a feminist which is the reason they're having an all girl team or it's really because we're wanting to understand more about female health plastic accounts for

ninety percent of all trash that finds its way into the ocean in the majority of coastal and island states there is no organized sorting of waste in some areas so much plastic is dumb to watch into the water that the sea is like a toxic plastic soup initially plastic waste this picked up by the stomachs of marine inhabitants and then at the end of the food chain is delivered to our plates before i met the old female crew of sea dragon i never sailed and did know how to change the world but i did know that if you want to make a change you must start with yourself and as a beginning i decided to make this film. and it said everything in travel and is enough that i gauge right. british airways that a date if it didn't get a say i have it everything. for me it really began and about eight years ago i had the opportunity to take a boat around the world we see. for the first couple of years on the sea dragon.

wanted to look at these islands of pasta that we were hearing about and quickly realized that actually what we were looking for what the micro plastics these tiny pieces. and i'm going to accept them back i. guess and that that and opened up this whole question about toxics and that's really where x. expedition that came from all right let's move on everyone i'm shanley i'm your skipper for this. it's going to be an awesome week and i have been living on board see dragon for the past three and a half years now and she's a great home so yeah we're. where we're going to get to go in this film cameras already here. hi guys i'm john mission coordinator for this leg of execution caribbean i was on the first x.

expedition across the atlantic in two thousand and fourteen with emily. i have never sailed before more so less some time away and i am from wales in the u.k. and i'm the poet i'm from gemini. and that's that it mary in geology and my background is in biology and also pharmaceutical sciences i'm studying green enough for history for the i'm an all chased scientist and then i'm also about promoting women in science i've been really a strong supporter about women in stem careers. then the last thing is i'm a breast cancer survivor you guys don't get seasick that's not a problem but if it is we're talking about where to peel right so the best place to be is inside the calming us that's what we call this in this case here that you'll be sitting on it runs up and down your is inside of that clinton not trying to hang over the side of the boat to get into the water just puke on the side deathly. the

hose these guys here these little glue bets here are called the eclipse so basically when the boats heeled one where the other were kind of rolling back and forth this is what's going to keep you in your bunk the right on the right so they get up. to twenty times already spends twenty i am saying so long hikes a twenty times up and down like a wall so this will rise a little bit you turn it back so the writings facing you and then you try to get you to still want to go on yeah ok. all right i think this might be hard now let's see you know and to let you know in sabrina. brand i'm looking at making your bow down the would be awesome. mike on the how you're yes you're right hope. it is because the president. and.

you. need. to. know i'm terrible and i think it comes much easier to write the knowing. that i am just here to. plug the hole that he would like to try that there's not a dr gravity to do with going on these cells excited to go back to nurse the bad spirit of the. day the reality is that these these islands that we head off they don't exist in the middle of the a ship and you do get and high accumulations in day and she's. either of these

masses of plastic the lips that you will come them and but they are still in the middle of the ocean we get some areas when. we get localized areas where big a piece accumulate but the reality is the most and have it in this fine layer of micro plastics tiny tiny fragments and that's what we're looking for hit today in the everyday. one she knew very. well in the woods and now we've just been adjusting. to it to get that will actually flying along the sickness and we don't want it to dip down and we don't want it to skip to the top they will basically now will she now to make sure that. it is going into bad hands and into the troll will do this the next few minutes and then. we'll have a. i think the biggest thing. to me is that we've never had an empty troll

no matter where we've been whether it. and the caribbean the baltic. in the middle of the atlantic we've always. kind of scary when you haven't seen land for like eight days sailing out sea is or was the closest people to you are in the space station and still finding human and. like the then. the number going out with. you. when you need to. leave. the caribbean it's lucky because it isn't on the team one of the giants one of the cavemen a sure thing we hate to see what is here actually happen to any toxic.

that will just worried me see i still find states they were curious as to what is. good but what we've seen so far should they leave a styrofoam food takeaway containers. must exacts is not will the worms. hold the smoking gun. we take this on on even the signs and thirty minutes yet even. get something in store days or rinsing all of the things that we captured into a set of three sets of differing mike so there's the top serve which will catch the bigger parts of it as we go down smallish and we're going to use. these. to capture certain things so things that we think that look like plastic and even interesting organics biota that we might want to have a look at down the microscope.

that. oh no these things are. this is plastic. and yet can you see it's so obvious. but if you think it's just a little stretch of ocean it's a little bit of motion that's quite scary because we always find something. the more time we seem to spend see the more we realize that the solutions to say many of these things. and that's a big reason for the shift for the caribbean it's expeditions now to be say a land based.

it was the abandon that yes. there's all about what i want sunk not too long ago. this isn't the area just over this next door it's a little fishing community we're just going to try and do an estimate here the plastic bottles the palestine and everything that we're seeing and see that we can record that in the range every time that. is just the distance thing but they don't come here to really. want to do plastic bags and to see if you can give an estimate of what we've got here and spend you want to do i've been counting polystyrene alone so basically these containers here that you can see that are for takeaway food so people obviously come in they just throw them into the water as disposal i mean rochester oh there's another one i had counted

four hundred thirty eight pieces of styrofoam alone like we can recognize these things now spray bottles these dishes the styrofoam we recognize the stuff but once it gets out in the ocean what you'll find is that plastic breaks down really quickly because of the movement of the waves and the sunlight the u.v. it breaks down smaller and smaller and smaller into little plastic fragments so it may not be harmful for that little fish that eats one fragment of plastic but once it makes its way up to us in the food chain it's getting to levels that are harmful to human health and marine health too. so this is the kind of thing that you. don't want to see you just as much as you don't want to see little pieces of fragment only pull up or shall. there be a diving suit or something for it but we don't have the equipment so so now we have to think of some way of getting all this out you know and the main face and would first be clean out and then in the sort of big picture along the ten of what you

might like to see instantly we don't have a lot of education we compete simply because we don't have money. to do but you want the old really look to do you know so we can show people the results of their bad disposal practices you know that kind of thing so put it in the documentaries and dismiss in general education oh this is really. well without first being in touch yes yes yes absolutely thank you david and then i haven't met you yet so i hope you've enjoyed again yes had. joined me every day on the alex simon short and i was speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that.

reflect there's someone else living inside of me like controlling my body. the byproduct of that drug because like severe depression. because it literally need him into a zombie it's crazy. you know we don't have to do anything that's not our fault or the ocean is crazy and all that for. six years traumatic takes a long time to get a. your own. faults. well that's what i said but men want to know what did what is what made my mind i did my last useless problem. and just been trying.

i think. everybody should learning to. say we had the lamp tell insulation today we need to try to get an understanding of the big challenges around waste management on the small islands where you have all of this plastic if you have anything on the street maybe seasonal comes wrapped in plastic and is really very limited options to what you can do with that few things get separated the majority of it does get buried you can see here you know this is this is where all of the waste from the whole. is not really any sort of separation happens either our household level or waste facility level. plastics are all issue because i'm sure you've seen them all over. there even more expensive to deal with because you need to. you know or you know if it's getting shipped to. some of them to. so much.

well i happen to know it's not really a system to do with it. makes me sad in one way. oh it's tremendous i don't even know what to say those like bags flying about the way the where are they going to go. looking forward to learning the basics explain. this is the any thinking sometimes and expanding you say was quite a new concept is it just getting going and they see the name and it's working great . schools say getting school instruction bring it way speak for. safety tell me

she said they sometimes if we keep our sponsor. going that way so she want to do the right thing that and eventually we'll hopefully get to a household level as well. give you a decision. but what. is it scary. normally these in this room which to complete. this is true before that oh crikey they all quite have. i think you could we could make

a sculpture. i could see that i might need someone else to pick them up for me. just like. we see a lot of plastic that goes. down drains running down streams and with eyes and ultimately everything brands downhill to be a shame he hasn't beat parents rotate around and the plastic goes into these carrots this is what we call and shy at. it needs lots and lots of

walls cities in. a decision stats here are land. still it's. plastic bags for the cost of. two very good question because we didn't really need them and sale is something like that perhaps you could go and tool to the supermarket and i asked them if they need to provide a way to take a carriage vehicle to bring that and instead and this in some places around the globe they have now put and tags on the plastic backseat paper and which is really with the number of plastic bags that anybody uses really the rule it can't be bought it will. not respect the. lose. loads shown to. the washed up.

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like. oh i don't want to talk about this is a bad thing. because only you know the main groups that are very experienced they were fine but everybody else. was being basically.

waves breaking on my head to see which way it's not just completely such i'm just saying that i had no idea that. stuff like this are not the statue. flying up on the sea road do you feel like oh i know stone i'm ok. right. now. you. might assume. that happened and you can

scrape the. fountain balcony. with. you. and yes me yes and. this is like you know good strength here all the way in which is sealing the french for my last chemo is january eighth and my august i still looks like my son and ellie is oh you know it's like you know

me like you sure are in that house spiky. you came back around. heard her laugh. and i guess sessional sat and she'd stand out like create my hand in life hold everything plays about how to let not move that maybe it comes thanks to my last the fart hope so right before coming on this trip i sell a reed is my two year anniversary for being cancer free that's part of this trip for me and also raising awareness about these chemicals to. or in our environment there in our oceans there in our seafood there even in our ground water supply and thinking about what are we putting into our bodies and trial that's ultimately affecting us truth be told one in time of us will get cancer. of the hardest moment in. this period when you take. the hardest moment.

i guess. i'm going to have five but you will try. to do in your appearance. but is tied to the opex acute moment. you know sometimes ignorance is bliss and we don't know what wonder drugs going to do to you. then you kind of don't worry but as a scientist and having studied a lot of stuff i knew. what they were pumping into my body and what was about to happen. to various good spirits. though i was more scared of the drugs than keep sir. i love the chemicals that we're finding in the action and we all flying in our own bodies and cost an engine

i mean the fact that they are increasing makes us feel like that probably half of the action to the pricing right and definitely being part of expectation on. the toxic chemicals that i've played into my body over my lifetime i would pass that on my children. the only reason why i would like. to go in to become a mother and i can tell you that. having a biological child was just not for me or not in the stars but you know i don't. that is i can't be a mother. or. i'm a when you are. are

. can anyone guess how. sixteen thousand is to. get and. yet if you really get it this is a very sad leasing sixty. state. and these facts they get once maybe twice three times at once and didn't. eat any reasons for. their drink yeah. that's right that's

a perfect example of single use do you think you could do without a straw. do you think we're capable of looking at lifting a glass to our lips and drinking from it. lots of other alternatives to like glass containers throughout the resort home and these are all things that you guys can take back to your parents now because you can tell them let's stop using plastic or at least reduce our use of plastic do you think you guys could do that yeah i hear resoundingly good and. bad.

the country has gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i think and hit the road and get down to traveling across america to find what makes america the charlatans the genius the quintessential american hero this is it we've come a point around which alan would have done something we always are on the margins something. called the culture is moving forty odd jobs. we're starting last with is going to headed east into the swamp we're going into

the belly of the bees i think i want to leave now doesn't do any more gonzo on the net we may be completely different but the end of this jet. ski. i mean i mean i didn't know where your your son. was you going to. those whom you know most of the best to be in your years and years it was notable depending on what you believe in you know. the ways the ways but no i did my best diligent eyes of the white. people. we've been meaning to see if. there's one of those. views we'll get. you know it's not there yet.

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