Chapter 5

In chapter 5, Humes start off with a woman's point of view name Mary Cowell. Cowell sails this ship called Kaisei that is identify as ocean planet in Japanese. She had sailed almost her entire life to discover that her trail in the ocean that she use to take is now floating with trash. Corwell explains that forty years ago the ocean was empty. It's interesting because not only our society change but also our waste. Now the plastic that is found in our ocean is also harming our fishes. Humes also explains a current in the ocean called the 5 gyres. It surprise me that the ocean's current has these cycles that can transport trash to different country's beaches, in other words it can't be in one place. It's shocking how Alaska's ocean contains a reversal cycle, therefore their trash returns back to their beaches. It's sad as I read about the young sperm whale that was discover dead, even though it seem healthy.  Until it was discover that the sperm whale contain about 450 pounds of plastic. It's our fault that these living water creatures are dying. We all need to prevent our trash from entering our ocean because if we don't soon these fishes would all die, therefore we would never take another bite of them again.