This week's Naked Scientist Podcast comes from Naked Oceans, a monthly look beneath the waves at the latest in marine science.

You can find previous podcast presented by me, Sarah Kaster Perry and Helen Scales at the Naked Scientist.com

forward slash oceans. This month Helen looks at the issue of ocean pollution.

Revealing the hidden secrets of the sea.

This is naked oceans this month we get the low down on ocean pollution. There's all sorts of stuff we

throw into the seas and that poses all sorts of problems. We'll find out the

truth behind the Pacific garbage patch. The main surprise that we saw was just that there was just so much of this

little plastic crumbs out there and we hear about the first case of a marine

species catching a disease from people and the source of that

disease is not at all nice. Humans and human sewage are the source of the

pathogen that causes the devastating disease of corals known as white pox.

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You're listening to Naked Oceans with me Helen Helen Scales and this month we're going

from plastic to poo as we investigate the various ways that the oceans get

polluted by the activities of mankind. Well sadly plastic debris like discarded buckets, garbage bags and fishing

nets have become all too common sites on many of the world's beaches. But this small amount

of visible coastal rubbish is just the tip of the iceberg of the

waste found out in the open ocean that most of us never get to see.

There's actually areas of the ocean where there's more plastic than other areas of the

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