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The sea breeze brings interesting finds to the shore.
That's why I travel around like surfers.
I go to the Pacific side in summer, then to the Sea of Japan in winter,
just like the surfers around these areas.
It's crowded in here.
More people than I expected. What a shame.
That's why all those cars turned back...
Come on...
Here's a vacant space, let's park there.
This is a rare kind of fruit.
Since it was found on this tideline,
I guess it was carried here during the typhoon.
This is a nipa palm seed.
When it comes to things washing up from the south,
I find plants more romantic than rubbish.
So this is inspiring to me. I'd love to try growing it in Japan.
I'm bringing this home today.
I love legume seeds.
They travel with the ocean currents and end up in other lands.
They migrate, although we tend to think of plants as stationary.
These tiny seeds drift around,
trying to expand their areas of reproduction.
SOUTHWEST WIND. HOLIDAY, CROWDED WITH SURFERS.
INDIAN ALMOND, DWARF EELGRASS...
There are specific beaches
where a lot of plastic washes ashore, like here in Kaloot.
Some people call them "collectors' beaches".
Somehow you always find plastic plants here.
A piece of a fake plant.
Oh, another injection needle.
Still attached. Nice.
This whole place probably gets filled up.
I'm sure.
Unbelievably many nurdles.
What's that? A pregnancy test?
I don't know, I have no idea.
– She clearly wasn't pregnant. – No.
The amount of plastic produced each year is known.
It's about 288 million tonnes.
And about eight million tonnes ends up in the ocean.
This is actually a new form of archeology,
archeology of the future.
Let's see what we have here.
– You can keep it if you want. – Sure.
Okay, here's the "Kaloot stuff".
– That one is full of poison. – Yeah, it's gross.
Very good.
It's good to get it clean, because they're always filthy.
Bizarre...
Amitri...
Amitriptyline.
Whatever that is. – And look at these colours.
I just checked it.
Amitriptyline.
It's an antidepressant. – Really?
It's funny how these fall apart.
They almost always break the same way.
Have you noticed?
We also keep finding the same things every year.
Yeah. Identical things that have fallen apart the same way.
Plastic has a certain quality which is a big problem especially in water.
It absorbs all kinds of things.
Some plastics that have been white or transparent
often turn brownish.
It means that the plastic has absorbed pollution
or chemicals.
You shouldn't open it. You'll let that awful plastic smell out.
At least don't inhale it.
Some colours are rarer,
because animals eat them or nibble at them.
It took me a couple of years to fill the purple jar.
The effects of plastic have been tested on animals, for example.
The tests show that it increases their infertility.
The animals' reproductive capacity is decreased.
How's it going, Noet?
There are a lot of nurdles here as well.
It's a Sapporo Beer crate, isn't it?
I assume it came from Okinawa.
You can tell it from this white piece of coral here.
Yes, coral.
The crate must've drifted around the Pacific Ocean many times.
After leaving Japan, it drifted over to the United States,
then came back with the Equatorial Current.
The coral must've grown somewhere around Okinawa.
Does it come off? No, it's too hard to remove.
A number of objects end up in Japan due to the floods in Southeast Asia.
I've no idea what seed this is.
I keep things I don't recognise in my pocket.
But it might get lost in my pocket, so I have this container.
Do you know what this is?
These are sea turtle eggs.
The sand's been dug up, meaning they've already hatched.
The baby sea turtles have gone back to the sea.
I had decided to fill this bag with plastic pieces when I found this bean.
I knew I'd find a sea bean.
I had collected this many pieces before finding one.
There's more. Looks like a shield bug, doesn't it?
It has six legs. It's an insect.
Us humans may think we know the oceans very well,
but that is not really true.
What we see on the beach
is only a tiny fraction from the ocean's perspective.
There is a lot more that is still unknown to us.
Taking photos is not always enough.
When I want to leave a detailed record of the things I find,
I draw them to capture their shape and memory.
The sea is really pretty right now. So restless.
A lot of ships are going into the harbour. You see?
Because we work in archeology,
we look at the findings from a certain perspective.
Usually the people that made those things are not alive anymore,
so looking at the materials gives us an insight
into how those people lived.
So it's funny how those of us who are still alive
have a good idea of why these things are here.
Here's all this thread,
and it's tangled in the roots and between layers of sand.
You can notice different "hypes" like balloons with decorative strings.
We've found a lot of those over the past year.
All kinds of things suddenly peak in popularity
and end up on the beaches.
The remains of various creatures can be found scattered around the beach.
Whether they are from sea or land,
the coastline is a boundary between life and death.
We are following a line of corpses while walking along the beach.
I drew these beans.
These are seabird skulls.
You can find these beautiful bones lying on the beach.
I pick them up along the way.
This Laysan Albatross was also washed up as a delicate skeleton.
They are completely mummified.
I prefer this cute guy to a coconut.
A coconut is too big. When I carry it in a bag,
it feels like I've found a human head. I don't like that.
That hair is so shaggy...
I mean the fibres on the surface. They remind me of human hair.
It's unpleasant seeing someone carrying a coconut around.
It reminds me of a human head.
The sea is like a treasure trove of new species.
My chances of encountering them while beachcombing are not big.
But the chance is still there, so I keep on walking.
When people look back in a thousand years,
they'll see that a terrible amount of plastic things were made in the past.
It becomes immediately clear that it was cheap,
because the things were not made to last long.
You can draw conclusions from the way people dealt with the environment.
It's clear that they just didn't care about it
as they made disposable, toxic things that pollute the environment.
The objects were ridiculous and worthless.
Superfluous luxury.
And this is something else.
A Christian figure made of plastic.
A holy figure.
Even that wasn't made of sustainable material.
So long, cute gooseneck barnacle.
Here's a pitch black nipa palm seed I picked up yesterday.
I wonder if a sprout will open.
Has this already sprouted?
It might not come out.
Here are my treasures.
These are sea beans I collected last year.
They wash ashore with garbage and floating seaweed.
Interestingly, instead of getting lost among the garbage,
a sea bean may pop up from it thanks to its round shape.
It's said sea beans took this form so they could jump out of the pile
and move closer to land for maximal chances of reproduction.
I loved Super Balls as a kid.
When I find them, they still bounce.
As a child, I thought...
Incredible.
The amount of plastic plants you find is incredible.
Here are the flowers.
And leaves made from different materials.
All the degraded and discoloured things
are like a gateway to another time for me.
They give me a glimpse into the past, which is very interesting.
So it's mixed.
On one hand it's terrible, but also heartbreakingly beautiful.