And you know what he found down there?

No, he didn't find fish or sharks.

He found plastic.

This is a video you need to see.

In southern Philippines, I introduce you to Dr. Deo.

I am Deo Florence Onda. I'm one of the first humans and the first Filipino to actually descend the third deepest place on earth.

Dr. Deo is a marine scientist who explores the deepest parts of the ocean, the parts that are 10,000 Below where no one has ever been.

There had been more people who have been to the moon and to the outer space than people who were able to cross the 10,000 meters below sea level.

This is no easy trip because in the ocean, the deeper you go the more pressure builds up on your submarine.

But once Dr. Deo got to the bottom of the trench, what he found was shocking,

because there was a lot of plastic and that's not all.

Shorts, teddy bears, bottles. The more they looked, the more garbage he found.

And that's what scientists call the seventh continent.

There's a lot of stuff on the seafloor.

That's garbage down there. I'm pretty sure.

I thought it was a reflection, but yeah, I am seeing it.

It was very saddening to actually see plastics down there.

Imagine a place that has never been visited by any humans before and the first thing that we saw were actually imprints of human contamination.

This is the same plastic we throw in the ocean. It doesn't magically disappear.

It stays in the ocean and reaches places even humans have not reached.

This is why plastic pollution is dangerous.

Plastics are made up of different poisonous or toxic chemicals.

When released, this can affect actually the physiology of the different animals, which then affect their living conditions and then could result into mortality or death.

And this negative effects can actually cascade to the trophic system.

Whatever is happening in the smallest organism affected by plastic, all of us, humans will also be affected.

And instead of losing hope, Dr. Deo saw an opportunity to educate.

So he took pictures of this plastic continent and started sharing them with the world.

For many people, plastics problem is still an abstract.

They haven't really connected it with their everyday lives and my responsibility is to understand this plastic pollution.

The plastic pollution is real and it's serious.

Cleaning up plastic stuck in the bottom of the ocean is still impossible.

But it is possible if we start from the source.

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