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"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean."

– Arthur C. Clarke

 

This Monday was World Oceans Day – one day of the year set aside to think about 70% of our planet’s surface.

We like to think that we understand our planet – but just because we know to make parts of it blue on the map, doesn’t mean we know what’s really out there.

So this week, we took a look at some of the people charting, plotting, tracking and mapping some of the unexplored depths of our planet and everything that lurks there.

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Our oceans are far too big for humans to keep track of all on their own. So what’s an enterprising ocean scientist supposed to do?
Deploy an army of robots to help, obviously.

Tracking plastic pollution in our seas

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You may have heard that a whole lot of plastic ends up in our oceans – but once it’s there, where does it go?

There’s only one way to find out: build your own tracking buoys, and a computer model to go with them.
Let's track-y some placky.

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Sharks. They’re big, scary and chompy. Right?

Or are they just misunderstood?

Shark scientist Charlotte Birkmanis joined us on the  Particle Podcast for World Oceans Day, to talk about about rebranding sharks and the weird creatures living deep in our seas
Listen now
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