dragonlance designed to sail around the world the wrong way so she actually first best when she's healed over about forty five degrees sailing up with the seventy two feet long such meetings to predict at all but also the rain that's on our connecting side if lot of people when i was in england the first time you think that if you cross the atlantic in twenty four team if they owe you heard crossing the atlantic with fourteen women and you know the chapels would come in terms of oh man you guys we could 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 that way 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 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. get me through everything in trouble and they say nothing that i gauge right be. treated how great that they paid if it didn't. and they say they have it yes it has everything. to me it really began and

that out eight years ago i had the opportunity to take a boat around the world we set off 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 now 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 where do you get 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. going to get to go on this phone cameras already here.

hi guys i'm john mission coordinator for this leg of exhibition 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 marian 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 a marine 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 i believe that's not a problem but if it is we're talking about weird appeal 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 you're getting inside of the collector and not

trying to hang over the side of the boat to get into the water just puke on the side we have a 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 seat about. twenty times already spends twenty i am saying so long hikes and page twenty times up and down like a wall so this will rise a little bit you turn it back so the writing's facing you and then he's just used to watch the sun yeah ok. i think this might be her now let's see enough and to let you know and sabrina. brianna i'm looking at that and you're both down the would be awesome. like on the how you're yeah yeah. i hope.

it is because the president. and. the young people. know i'm terrible at writing in the much easier to write the know things and i am just here to. see what he would like to try that there's not a dr tragedy to do with the on the that is excited to get right to the first the bad zero of the. day the reality. it's amazing is that we've

heard of they didn't exist in the middle of the aisha and you do get high accumulations in a. haze 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. where we get localized areas where big a piece accumulate but the reality is the most. have it in this fine layer of micro plastics tiny tiny fragments and that's what we're looking for hit today in the every day. 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 that. is going into and into the troll will do this the next few minutes

and then. we'll have a. i think the biggest thing that has shocked 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 says was the closest people to you were in the space station and still finding human and. like the then. the amount of. what you'd like. what. they. were. carrying is lucky because it. no the team one of the giants one of the

accumulation things we hate to see what is here actually happened to. sticks out in the world is that worried me still a client state security system. but we seem so far should a lady's styrofoam. take away containers. must take. this awful the word. home the smoking gun. we take this on line even the signs and thirty minutes gap and didn't. get something sorted all of the things that we captured into a set of three sets of differing micro so there's the top serve or parents 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 organic biota that we might want

to have a look at on a microscope. oh no these things are. this is plastic. and yet can you see it so well. but if you think it's just a little stretch of ocean a little bit of ocean that's quite scary because we always find something. the more time we seem to spend to see the most we realize that the solution 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.

right. away the abandoned that's yes. there's no doubt what i want sunk not too long ago. this is on 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 disgusting that they don't come 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 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 just as much as you don't want to see little pieces of fragment when we pull up our show. maybe a guy been sued or something for it but we don't have the bottom and so. so now we

have to think of some way of getting all this out you know and the main face and would be clean up and then in the sort of bigger picture longer 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. put it in the documentary to dismiss in general education oh this is where we. are the first being in touch yes yes yes absolutely thank you david and then i haven't met you yet so i will do very well again yes ted all right let's go to. another russia gave bombshell fizzles this time it was buzz feed this prompted the intercept to write beyond buzz feed the ten worst most embarrassing us media

failures on the trump russia story as hatred for trump destroyed the profession of journalism. reflect there's someone else living inside of me controlling my body. the byproduct. the drug the the cause like severe depression. because it literally need one to zombie it's crazy. you know we don't have to do anything that's not our fault or the sins crazy and all that. took years to traumatic takes a long time to get rid of. well

that's what i said didn't want to do it well i did not deserve a man my. problem. and just didn't try. i think. every night and. say we had the lamp balance and we should today we need to try to get an understanding of the big challenges around waste management on these small islands where you have order this plastic and thing 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 we can see here you know this is this is where all of the waste from the whole. separation happens either our household level

or at least the senate. trust. 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. trash you know it's not really a system to do it. makes me sad in one way. oh it's horrendous i don't even know what to say those like bags flying about. where are they going to go.

so looking forward to learning the first take the extra. day this is the any sanctions ten times 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 to getting school kids to actually bring that way speak. and say hey 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 will hopefully get into the household level as well. to give you a decision. but

it was. this. is a scary. normally these are just really a huge turning point it's. this is the turning point 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.

we see a lot of plastic that's going down drains running down streams and with eyes and ultimately everything brands down hail to the asian the house and be parents rotating 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. to go. to let's say. plastic bags for the cost of. very good question because we didn't really need them and sale is something like that perhaps you could get a link to to the supermarket and i asked them if they need to provide a way to take the carriage vehicle to bring that and instead and this in some

places around the globe they have now put and tags on the plastic bags he paid for and which is really reduced the number of plastic bags that anybody uses really the rule it can't be bought at. the end of the specs of. the lose. those shirts to. wash up. so we've got to kill.

again. oh i don't want to talk about this they'd. become we know the me through that are very experienced they were mine but everybody else but the one thing basically. ways to break my head to suit what it's not just completely so i just say i had no idea that. stuff like this and not just kept. flying up on the state road do you feel like oh i know stuff so i'm ok.

now. you. might tell us enough. that happened and you can there is crazy. the fountain valley. with. you.

and yes me yes and. this is like you know you get strength here all the way you know which is feeling the french for my last chemo is january eighth and my august i still look like lice and ellie is still zero you know it's like you know me i get insured the house spikey. became background. that hurt her. and i guess sessional sad and she went out like create my hand in life hold everything plays about how to live and 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. also raising awareness about these chemicals that are in our environment

they're in our oceans they're in our seafood they're even in our ground water supply and thinking about what are we putting into our bodies and how that's ultimately affecting us truth be told one in time of us will get cancer kind of like a big harvest moment. here you spend your time. the hardest moment. i guess. i'm going to have five but you won't but if. you do you have to keep it up but is tied to the opex a-q. mono. 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 our east coast spirit. so i was more scared of the drugs keep sir. i love the chemicals that we're finding in the action and we all flying in our own bodies and cost and ship i mean the fact that they are increasing makes us feel like they probably have to connection to the pricing right and definitely being part of expectation and the thought that. the toxic chemicals that i think they did to 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

think that is i can't be a mother. or. i mean you are. are. can anyone guess how. we use sixty thousand. yet and. yet you know you're really good at this very sad

leasing sixty. six and these facts they get you 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 strong. do you think we're capable of looking at lifting a glass to our lips and drinking from it have lots of other alternatives to you like glass containers for iraq the result 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. all right.

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