We go from plastics to poo this month on Naked Oceans as we explore some of the many ways we pollute the seas by throwing too much of the wrong kind of stuff into them. In Sarah’s second report from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California, she finds out the truth behind the Pacific garbage patch and finds out just how ubiquitous plastic debris is in the seas. We chat to the marine biologist who discovered the first ever case of a marine invertebrate catching a disease from humans – white pox disease has been wiping out corals across the Caribbean and the source the problem is not at all nice. And in another episode of Critter of the Month, we meet a weird deep sea crustacean that inhabits the twilight zone and you can see right through.

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