chapter 5

    This chapter is fairly different than all the other chapters we have read before. It takes us to a different world with different species. This chapter is about the trash in our ocean. Trash that could kill animals and hurt them. It not only kills mammals but it could also kill people. Mary Crowley, is a teacher that wanted to be a sea captain and see what is in that sea. she became a see captain and went to look for what there is in the ocean. In her opinion, the ocean is now a "plastic chowder"(109). She talks about how lantern fish feed on the surface when its night time. And what is on that surface? on the surface of water are all plastic items. Then, larger fish feed on those lantern fish and then humans eat those larger fish. It is basically a cycle that if people don't want to eat plastic like that just because its plastic they'll most likely eat that plastic out of fish. Crowley wanted to do a project to extract all that plastic from the sea. Humes introduce throughout the chapter the nurdles, the melt down in the sea and eventually become plastic. Those nurdles are very small that no one can see them. Therefore, plastic is everywhere. people won't be able to get rid of it and run away from it. They will find it where ever they go and whatever they do because it is basically humans' trash and humen are everywhere. When Crowley continued her project she found 450 pound of plastic in a whale's digestive tract. In her opinion, if the ocean is not clean then we are not clean because this is a matter of survival. They put a net in the ocean and they looked at it they saw that there was no sea life it was all plastic and plastic. People should stop dumping their trash in the ocean and try to save the ocean and protect themselves.