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00:00It was one of those holy crap moments.
00:08Somebody just filled this up with industrial waste, kicked it off of a ship, and it's just
00:14been sitting here on the seafloor ever since.
00:27As I'm learning about the way we've polluted the ocean, I feel like we never really finished
00:33the DDT story.
00:37There's still a whole, whole lot we don't know.
00:39And this is ground zero.
00:42We're talking about a place where potentially half a million barrels of it were dumped.
00:47We'll go ahead and get out of the team out there as soon as possible.
01:01It's very abnormal to have a wildlife species developing a cancer at such a high prevalence.
01:07It's striking just how much sea lions can tell us about the environment that we also
01:13live and swim and breathe in.
01:16That's the part that to me is so scary.
01:18What are the long-term effects of this contaminant being out there?
01:20Not only to the wildlife, but to humans, that we're in this together, right?
01:29This is another interpretation of what a forever chemical means, right?
01:32When people use that term, they often mean forever means it just sits in the environment
01:36and never goes away.
01:37Well, the impact may be forever, too.
01:44Is the story that we're about to share with the public a unknown chapter of history, a
01:49secret chapter of history, or was it a forgotten chapter of history?
01:56We treated the ocean like the world's biggest trashcan.