Plastic found in the deepest depths of the ocean

Brut America

Is there a place on Earth that has not yet been polluted by humans?  As he was descending to the deepest depths of the ocean, this explorer found something he wasn't looking for...

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00:00When I first got to the bottom, it seemed very pristine, almost like a moonscape, and

00:23I did see life.

00:24They were moving on their own accord, and they were very beautiful in many ways.

00:28But as I continued going along the bottom, cruising around, I did see what appeared to

00:33be one or two particles of man-made matter.

00:36I don't know if they were plastic or metal, but they definitely had sharp edges, and one

00:39of them had what looked like a letter on it, printed.

00:43So they were obvious contamination.

00:58It was very disappointing to see obvious human contamination of the deepest point in the

01:17ocean.

01:24It is the basis of the food chain in the oceans, and potentially on terrestrial life, that

01:35we all get contaminated by whatever we put into the ocean.

01:37It's not a big garbage collection pool, although it seems to be treated as such.

01:47I think that there are so many regulations that are not enforced, or that are simply

02:14not in place, that can control contamination going into the ocean, because once it goes

02:17into the ocean, it will be degraded, and it will flow all over the world, because the

02:20currents will carry it that way.

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