Why Jack Johnson Sailed the Sargasso Sea Searching for Plastic | National Geographic

[Music] I grew up spending so much time in the ocean. It's like the only thing I would draw as a kid: just draw a perfect little right-hand Point Break every time. It just becomes almost the same thing; you can just flip it out and it's kind of, it's everything for our family. It's where we go to just goof around and have fun with the kids when their friends are over.

And then it's also where I go sometimes alone, just to be with my father. You know, he's not with us anymore, but I feel this presence when I'm in the ocean. It's something that we spent so much time together in the ocean that now when I'm there, it's the place I feel closest to him. So it's a spiritual place for me.

[Music] But we really have to ask ourselves: do we want to keep making things that are meant to be used for a second and then last in the ocean forever? And so, you know, it gets there lots of different ways. Sometimes it's intentional and dumped off a boat, but more often than not, it's blowing out of a landfill. So much of what we're producing is ending up in the ocean.

It's a good reminder to look and to say, "Is a very blue beautiful ocean still?" You know, I mean, there’s so much hope when you just look at all the beauty: the dolphins riding the bow this morning, the birds that keep staying right along with us and just landing with us there. One smile, and every time they drift to a certain distance back, they pick up their wings and they start flying again. They come and hang out for a while, and just getting to experience those things, I mean, that does so much more than finding the negative sometimes.

You know, let's say you see all these things, and it makes you want to do whatever you can to keep this ocean as beautiful for generations to come as you can.

[Music] Fragments on the sea, birds of prey, a [Music] little time machine, messages of love. And hey, why can't we relate with ourselves with what we've opened up? Is it too late? Fragments of a scene. [Music]