Trash in the deep sea: Bringing a hidden problem to light
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Using advanced technologies, such as remotely operated vehicles, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) is helping to uncover the far-reaching presence of man-made debris in deep ocean ecosystems. Over the past 25 years, we have recorded evidence of debris up to 13,000 feet deep and 300 miles offshore from waters off of central and southern California, the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, and the Gulf of California. We've seen trash everywhere we've looked.
In the greater Monterey Bay region, the majority of debris items were single-use, recyclable items. Plastic shopping bags and aluminum beverage cans were most common overall. Surprisingly, plastic and metal were found relatively more frequently at deeper depths, suggesting that the extent of marine debris on the seafloor may be far greater than known to date. MBARI researchers hope that this study will increase awareness of the growing problem of man-made debris in all parts of the ocean.
It is far too expensive and impractical to locate and retrieve debris after it reaches the deep seafloor. The best solution is to reduce our reliance upon single-use, throw away items. Recycling, reusing, and properly disposing of trash items will help to keep litter from ever entering the ocean.
Special thanks to:
Additional footage and still images courtesy of Leanne Foster, the Tangaroa Blue Foundation, and the Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition (SEAPLEX).
Video producer: Linda Kuhnz
Script: Linda Kuhnz and Kyra Schlining
Narration: Kyra Schlining
Music: Whispering Waters, composed by Chuck Jonkey
MBARI press release:
www.mbari.org/n...
Original journal article:
Schlining, K., von Thun, S., Kuhnz, L., Schlining, B., Lundsten, L., Jacobsen Stout, N., Chaney, L., & Connor, J. Debris in the deep: Using a 22-year video annotation database to survey marine litter in Monterey Canyon, central California, USA. Deep Sea Research Part I. www.sciencedire...
More information on how you can help:
marinedebris.no...
www.unep.org/re...
www.marinelitte...
That chair just sitting at the bottom of the ocean creeped me out.....
nice lawn chair
Same
Me as well
detention
“Not my chair,not my problem. that’s what I say”
It's devastating to see this, more people need to see this to make them rethink before they haphazardly throw away a wrapper or soda can on the ground whenever they are out in the woods, mountains, beach, or whatever area no trash can is available. I have often gone out to the mountains or beach and have came back with a pocket or backpack full of trash because I refuse to be part of this problem, I love nature and the wonders this world has to offer to mistreat it like that and it often saddens when I see this trash scattered about when I'm out enjoying it.
ChromeFenix me too, and it seems far more often than 20 years back because of all the extra wrapping and display packaging used now, combined with the councils removal of most public litter bins
+drspastic why do we need all that packaging in the first place.
The problem is that sometimes cities dump their garbage in the ocean
So even if everyone was a good citizen who doesn't throw garbage in the woods or streets . There's no guarantee that the government won't throw it in the ocean
@@artoruvidal2793 People litter a lot everywhere. It is unlikely gov will dump waste into the ocean. It is far more likely some small, local contractor will do it or dump the waste in the forest to save few bucks.
@@pavel9652
Trust me governments do that everywhere
As the other commenter Andrew Mayers said, there are bacteria that can digest plastics, however introducing species for that purpose could have unintended consequences. In our research paper, we argue that the best solution to this problem is prevention. Focusing efforts on preventing litter and cleaning up litter on land before it gets into the ocean are critical.
As a geologist, I’m extremely curious to see what sedimentary rocks will look like millions of years from now. How plastics and made made objects will look interspersed within natural rock.
As a welder… me too! Probably going to be weirdly colored and will be covered in rainbow flecks when you zoom in far enough.
Maybe there is a natural way plastic is made that you might be able to see what that looks like today?
Like oil deposits under specific conditions turning to plastic a (something-Illion) years ago and the bonding with the rock.
Lol @ thinking this current earth would last a million years. You can’t even fathom that amount of time. Quit playing I honestly don’t believe there has been billions of years of time that has passed.
We observed this bottle before the 2011 Tsunami! As we were doing this study, it was really interesting to think about how each one of the items ended up where it did.
I was in the Navy up until 1971 and we always threw all our trash into the ocean, when at sea. It was just done that way, without a thought. The only concern we showed, was making attempts to make sure it always sunk.
damn
stupid fucks
It's fine
Can you imagine a you found chair in deep sea and someone sit in there?
What are the odds of finding a chair standing perfectly upright under 10,000 feet in the dark ocean? I thought it was cool and eerie at the same time. A picture of that would make a great cover for an album.
MASTERmw100 well there are only six sides it can land on. So 1 in 6 chance
+MASTERmw100 The chair is a plastic seat with a metal frame. The metal is less buoyant than the plastic, so it will slowly be drug down by the metal. The plastic acts like a stabilizer.
I want to dive down there and sit on that chair.
Chtulhus gardenchair of solitude :)
I'm imagining just sitting in that chair casually reading a book at the bottom of the sea.
I’m pretty sure that the water pressure would crush you into a human pancake
@@ErebusTheDragonn I'm living in enough pressure and depression and I am alive I don't think the water will do much.
@@MrCombuster Very good point. Still the weight of the water would crush you to death, way before you get to the deep ocean floor. You'd have to have the gelatinous body of a Blobfish in order to survive that deep in the ocean/or sea.
I know that this is a relatively old video full of old comments, but these problems persist and are worse today than they were before. The gross misunderstanding of the effects these sorts of pollution have on the ocean- and our planet- is upsetting and worrisome.
By no means does this video express quite the extent of the problems we should be facing, how to face them in depth, or the severity of why it's so important, it's a great place to start. To expand upon, and keep rolling on why environmental awareness matters; especially in our oceans.
One should be so wise to research things such as the effects of leaching and ocean acidification, reef bleaching, plankton communities, local ecosystems and food chains, and climate change.
We can do better. The world, and all of us living on it, deserve(s) better. Thank you, MBARI, for going so strong for so long on ocean awareness.
It's even worse now lol
Yes, you are correct. The pressure of the water inside and outside are in equilibrium, so the can is unaffected by the pressure.
Love that walmart bag just floating
I'm for adding a major TAX ON PLASTIC.
It would help force the use of plastics, only where it can't currently be replaced.
Lol
Just stop using plastic bags, wrappings and disposable cutlery.
Venice and many other places have done this already.
In Germany plastic bottles used for beverages cost additional 25 cents each, which you get back, when you recycle the bottle.
And plastic bags cost so much, that it’s reasonable to use high-duty reusable bags or single-use paper bags.
Don’t buy wrapped bananas, use biodegradable single-use plastic bags.
Water pressure in the deep-sea effects air-filled spaces; water is much less compressible than air, and the can is filled with water!
The 45 gallons drum looks like a criminal coffin with those small holes to make it sinks. They open one side of the drum put the dead body in the drum, put the cover back and drills some holes before dumping the drum at sea. The best way to get rid of someone and be sure that the justice system never recovers the body, so no one can be accused of anything. No body found, no criminal accusation. this drum should be recover and opened to see what's inside.
The ocean is perfect for dumping bodies. Gulf stream is carrying everything away safe and sound. I find it useful!
14 year old edgelord detected
Falk Südmersen don’t be rude, negativity only reveals more.
Falk Südmersen Densest man on the internet award goes to the man who takes jokes seriously
@@tedkazcynkski4328 your name is very relevant to this video
When I see them do that, I pick up their trash and walk up to them and say, "You dropped something"
Uhh that chair is not debris that's actually where I chill
Your chair is pretty damn creepy to be honest. Just sitting up so perfectly in the middle of the dark ocean like some dark haunted house.
cool, can i bring my chair as well
I understand keeping the throwing of garbage from ships and boat into the ocean to a minimum. but what about that Sunami that washed all that trash off those Ilands and has floated out to sea.
+Daniel Homa Her suggestion here would even reduce the impact of disasters like that to some extent. Decreasing the use of disposable items everywhere (not just on ships) means that there is less overall waste available to be carried to the ocean, whether by ships, wind, waterways, or even Tsunamis and other natural disasters.
Hage you're an idiot if you believe that
Nick Worster No you.
Jake Lotty wow that was a very intellectual response
Nick Worster Thank you!
Thank you for posting this video. It's a 'must see'.
as someone who has worked on ships, international polution regulations while at sea need to change.
3:32
Me:"Watchu doin Octopus?"
Octopus:"Chill'in Chill'in"
"You know that's trash that shouldn't be here right?"
Octopus: "K Lol."
You see the problem with introducing bacteria to the ocean is that there could be unknown effects from the organism and can cause ecological upsets. I personally believe that humans should clean up after themselves, but that is a good idea if it didn't have drawbacks.
They really need to stage a skeleton on that chair. It landing right side up is the beat thing to happen ever.
I fish the NYC costal waters for bass & bluefish and go offshore on boats for cod & tuna. In 1974 I went on a cod trip to Cox Ledge off of Montauk Point on the Viking Star we caught fish, but I overheard the Capitan and crew members saying that there was a mountain of sludge and garbage located way offshore and 50 years from now it will destroy the ocean and all of the game fish that were so abundant back then, that was 47 years ago. I've seen many different species of fish in decalin and disappear within the past 30 years to date. I keep thinking back and refer to that conversation I heard 47 years ago, It was a terrible prediction and now it's a irreversible problem that plagues us all, scary.
u found my chair!
2:56 that's scary...
Some of this might be debris of the 2011 japan tsunami
My thought exactly.
Because of the bottle with Hangul on it ? Anyway I don't think the littering of the ocean main sources are tsunamis
Well It Could Also Include Stuff From Fukushima
Her voice is so soothing
This is a great video. I wonder what the chances are of that chair landing upright on the sea floor! It's like King Triton has been kicking back in it getting some R&R.
Thank you for this video!
9 years later, nothing has changed
"Only when the last fish has been caught, the last tree cut down and the last drop of water drank, will you finally realise you cannot eat money"
0:25 there is a pokemon ball. Someone failed to catch gyrados maybe.
Where
Oh, never mind its at 0:26
im going to catch that magikarp if its the last thing i do!
the best 360p i ve seen ! lol
My family and friend think I am a pain in the ass because I am constantly pointing out the amount of wast they create. Single use dinnerware and beverage containers are a particular point of contention for me as I continually harp against their use. But laziness persist and no one sees the big deal. They all say the same thing "But it's recyclable forgetting that if you put it in the trash it is not going to get recycles. Even aluminum cans and glass bottles of my beer guessing in-laws almost never make it into the recycling stream and it is it too much bother to even separate the most abundant items.
There are two things I will be most known for. My arguing against hat existence of any gods and "Why the fuck don't you recycle and why the fuck do you insist in generating the most amount of waste possible by using single serve everything!"
In 2001 as a Sea Cadet in Canada, I spent 2 weeks aboard a Canadian naval destroyer and, we simply poked holes in garbage bags and tossed them overboard... this was the accepted standard practice for garbage on ship... I was and still am mortified by the practice!!
god
That container will be an island in 80 million years, maybe.
Lots of good subjection points.
If we had a International Ocean Floor Station, now that would be awesome!
That, and the can is open, so pressure between the two zones is equalized, therefore no pressure drop and no crushing of the aluminum, correct?
Yeah, the unknown possibilities of bacteria seem a bit sketchy, but if people were actually to go through with that idea, experiments and observations of the bacteria's effects in controlled environments would be a must.
I for one love dumping my trash in the ocean
Navy and commercial ships use to dump trash willy nilly as long as they were a certain amount of miles from land or a shore line.
I find it hard to believe that any of this would be going on off the California's coast. I always thought they were better than the rest of us!!
3:49 that bag of trash is a couple years away from becoming a sea creature. It's already grown a tail.
Metal & bottle large debri looks like it could be more useful to the deep--water ecosystem in the long-run as a solid anchor for reef formation & fish housing.
pish. let nature create the reefs, less trash obvs better.
People have tried to make metal scaffolding for reefs or turn busted ships into sanctuaries: I do wonder what happens to the paint and additives when they eventually come off though.
our consumerist culture produces tons of waste. with that said, I wouldn't worry too much about trash in the ocean. marine lifeforms should be able to break it down. as long as we cut down on throwing away plastic, and especially stuff like batteries with harsh chemicals, it shouldn't be too great of an issue.
When you hear facts like that the impact of making a reusable grocery bag is way higher than plastic ones and it would take something like 90 years (I forget the exact number but it was something like that I heard) of using the reusable bag to make up for it, but then single use bags are ending up in the ocean, how do you know which is worse?
Why is there a chair in the bottom of the ocean? Maybe it's school time for nemo
That one comfy chair.
for decades big cities dumped huge amounts of garbage daily directly in the ocean
The main benefactors are businesses and corporations that make profits from packaging and consumables. Corporations and governments are silent on the topic because profits are involved. Global regulation and direct taxation is needed manage the waste. Billions of people are discarding their rubbish into the environment especially in developing countries like Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia. People on boats often throw their rubbish overboard and smokers often discard their butts into the water.
Great what great new problem am I made aware of next, let's hope I can solve them tomorrow ¡¿
well for starters most ships are made of metal and metal has been around for a long time before humans so im pretty sure animals have encountered it before also metal does not break down the way plastic does since it rusts away in a uniform matter were as plastic breaks into pieces which could be eaten and affect the digestic system of marine animals, metal ships like the titanic serve as new homes for many species of marine life and are relatively harmless to life in the ocean unlike plastic
The part were that chair was just siting was pretty creepy
I don't think anyone re-uses anymore...
If the materials were produced from hemp they would actually assist the environment as they decompose but oil companies need us to consume as much oil as quickly as possible because shareholder profits are their only focus. We have been lied to. Henry Ford built a car from hemp and ran it on hemp oil. What happened to that concept?
Everybody talking about the chair and all I could think about was how to get those over 1000 free tires.
We need more significant penalties for littering and illegal dumping.
still compared to plastic, metal degrades relatively quicker
why aren't those flat by the pressure????
Do you guys pick up the litter or just film it?
"The Channel is so clogged with garbage that fish are eating a steady diet of plastics and other junk. In one recent experiment, a third of 504 fish caught in the Channel were found to have bellies full of tiny particles called microplastics, and many of them are so loaded with mercury that a little plastic in the gut is the least of your concerns."
the biggest problem is most people don't care, expect others to clean up after them, or pretend the problem will go away if they just ignore it. i know people who would litter just because it's inconvenient to walk a few feet to a trash bin.
Where is the flying bird above the ship come from?
I wonder how much of this is from people partying on cruise ships and throwing sporks and cans overboard.
How can you get mad at the garbage? A mylar balloon that says "Love you" floats by at 3:22
What if plastic/styrofoam digesting bacteria was made more available for the more polluted parts of the ocean? I've read news articles about several people discovering and isolating different species and I have hope for its use.
Videos like this causes people to think twice about what they throw in the water. Some folks will care if they see it and same folks will help clean it.
I look forward to a future Ocean day, which ROVs can bring up the trash or at least the floating plastic bags.
Quote from:
water.epa.gov/type/rsl/monitoring/upload/2004_10_13_monitoring_volunteer_newsletter_volmon06no1.pdf
"if divers could tell people what they saw under water, maybe we could really help lakes and rivers."
It would be a good idea to develop technology to pick up as much garbage as possible under the deep sea.
That chair is really spooky
What is the remotely operated vehicle in this diving?
the container was from the ship that collided with another ship and about 100 containers droped into the sea
Seeing that bag float by, with "Love You" written on it.
The irony. The bullshit.
A party balloon.
@@paulmorissette5863 Whatever that love was written on, it's only bringing death. it may have been a moment of entertainment, for a second, but what it really is, is death, waste, a product that the earth does not need and cannot use.
some thins , like bottles, are good hiding places for young critters and some things, well , they can hide under, on a barren sandscape........on the positive side, that is..............................
2:18 is that a gold fish!
Never trust a barrel In the sea or on the beach, usually waste oil or nuclear waste.
Tell it to the Chinese.
that chair was pretty creepy
It would seem that a lot of that trash forms little reef communities. I know trash isnt good but it probably provides a lot of new habitat animals down there wouldnt usually have.
mol comfort sunk with 4500 containers and no one want to spend some money to retrieve all the trash that littered the seabed in july 2013
Instead of halting the use of plastics, how about stop throwing them in the damn ocean?
I see people all the time just casually toss garbage as they go about their day, I can't even imagine myself ever doing something like that...
the can is open and empty, so it can't be compressed.
3:00 imagine if Morgan Freeman was sitting there
I am ex navy I can tell you. That. The. Navy dumps trash daily. From every ship when there at sea
so that's where that chair went!
What I don't understand is how twisted our science is. We plan for manned and unmanned missions to other planets, yet we cant get something simple done like cleaning the ocean floor. Is it not interesting enough? Up to last month they discovered a new fish never seen before while exploring the deep sea.. This should be interesting enough then, "learning how to live in water" This should be a project. Before the fish grow legs and come on land to kick us in the butt for being fools.
As the video said, these new animals that weren't found before there, disrupted the habitat there. Imagine this example on land: A lot of species of rodents and beetles thrive in an ambient because of the nice assortment of grains and fruits of that habitat. Then, someone introduces some bunny rabbits there. They eat alot and they reproduce alot, taking by consequence alot of the resources those other species would've used, so they die off and become more rare/extinct.
See my point?
imagine all the 50 gallon barrels of toxic waste dumped n just sitting at the bottom.
+1stfloorguy some areas are horrible, we used to dump nuclear waste into the ocean.
+DinnerTimeMishap used to? I bet many corporations still do under the shade of night
+1stfloorguy russia has an island to dump all of it on, all of it on one island. It's really cool! What's wrong with dumping shit in the ocean? It's so sensible, drop it, never see it again, problem solved. Ocean is huge, fish can move somewhere else no worries.
I must say sorry, even I didn't throw empty coke bottle away.
3:36~3:42 coke bottle came from South Korea.
If plastic has being around for ages and we've hit a level of technology level like this hmm surley there should be some ancient plastic under there
Plastic has been around for less than 200 years.
Well it could serve as deep see bottom decoration .no?
replace the plastic with material from canavis sativa
Would be ideal to get a bunch of magnetic car lifters and combine them I to one huge magnet and sweep past the ocean floor and collect all the remaining meta down there and then the plastic will be another problem
Wow! Impressive!
Fishermen must bring up a lot of trash and are probably just throwing it back.
I love the ocean too much. Come on people! Don't litter!
I hate it when people only think of themselves and get to damn lazy to JUST DO SOMETHING FOR ONCE IN THEIR LIFE AND PUT THEIR RUBBISH IN A RUBBISH BIN!!!😠...😤....😥.....😡..STILL MAD ABOUT IT!
That is a korean product bottle, but of course it could have been sold and tossed in many different countries.
3:03 Who needs a chair in 4000 m/13000 m depth?
i wonder what earth looked liked before the trash, pollution, and developement.