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You're listening to the Pristine Ocean Podcast. I'm your host, Peter Hall. The podcast aims to inform, inspire and even entertain you about the serious business of ocean plastics.
Each week you will hear our guests, from around the world, talking about best practices, innovative ideas and financial models for fighting the scourge of plastic litter in the marine environment.
We're talking to Denzel from the Clean Surf project. Thanks for talking to us today.
Denzil – Clean Surf Project
Thanks first of all for having us on your on your show.
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I remember visiting South Africa quite vividly. The colours of scenery, the animals. But for me most important thing was the meeting of the Indian and the Atlantic oceans.
Tell us about one thing that you might see in South Africa that you wouldn't see anywhere else in the world.
Denzil – Clean Surf Project
We've got one of the greatest scenes, I believe in the world, which is called the Sardine Run. That is where a lot of sardines move down from the southern coastline coming up and they moving up this way because of the cooler water currents.
And then, obviously, well, whale sharks, dolphins. This is a yearly amazing miracle that happens. They will then follow these shoals and feed off them. And then obviously have a lot of people, communities that is trying to get these sardines.
For food purpose or for selling this fish.
Pristine Ocean
Oh yeah, the Sardine Run. I've only experienced it in YouTube, but the sardines have this protection mechanism where when they're being attacked by the predators, sharks and whales, they go into these balls of fish. These bait balls, and then you have these. And then you have these garnets divebombing into the water.
You grew up on the coast and spent a lot of time in the water in the surf.
What kind of animals did you come in contact with?
Denzil – Clean Surf Project
We usually have a lot of whales coming past in the winter months because they come down this coastline for breeding purpose or with the calves.
So yeah, you see a lot of marine life.
Unfortunately that specific coastline is just very badly polluted.<
