MPR News Feature; Explorer Thor Heyerdahl speaks about his adventures and his crusade to save the ocean

More difficult is getting prostaglandin wait a mo than death then I have to. That's Norwegian explorer anthropologist author cinematographer an adventurer. He sailed the Pacific Ocean in a bowls of wood raft in the Atlantic in a raft made of reed bundles not as larks but to prove ways in which ancient civilizations moved about the surface of the earth and subsequently populated it. I are told is in Morehead to speak to the can go to a college see 400 fundraising club about his adventures in his crusade to save the oceans. We are really behaving against that and know it and not some action destroying the men for it as the main table. To my mind is what we are doing to the word ocean. Right now we're just going to be in my mind the safest way of destroying the possibility you know living on this planet and I think that the main thing is that this dog realizing that we are destroying the ocean. And I think that and this is what I feel that I have learned on the reasoned years and

where I feel a mission to tell a lot of people is that the ocean is not unlimited. It is not so enormous as we like to think it is. And I for one and I'm sure most other people we have maintained the vision of the ocean that existed at the time of Columbus. We speak of the bottom of this ocean we speak of the endless ocean the ocean is not bottomless and it's not then that the ocean is much much smaller than we usually think it is when we see it from one side of it but when you climb on board if you know rugs like I did in South America and just sit there and step off it. 4000 miles at the other end a few weeks later when you go on board the proprietor's reads in my office and you just hang on and suddenly you are numeric and then you are in that the ocean is not endless. And when you start measuring it and realize that for instance the North went to we in Europe think it some

random list at this where we've been dumping all or or toxic materials for years and years. Well if you move in Manhattan the buildings on Manhattan and put them on the bottom of the North think nearly all the big buildings will come high above the surface. What makes us care and think that we can fit anything into the ocean because it doesn't matter. Is the fact that we see all the big rivers whether it is the Nile or the Amazon or the Mississippi. They keep on running into the ocean all the time and still it doesn't raise an inch so we think it must be either bottomless or amulets and we forget that it is of course the water ending in this just the same amount that is evaporating as clean water and the rivers are just the same of all the rain coming down by a separation but the water that evaporates if the clean water and what remains is all the pollution that modern man has

started to send in the last two is Cades or so there's not that river in the word. Sending clean drinking water into the ocean and more is all polluted by some. Chemical material and wine in the Clean Water isn't that breaking these chemicals are there in ever greater condensation. So it is just a matter of time the way we were before we can kill the plankton which is not only the food for the fish which we badly need for protein for a steadily growing population but which is also the main abuser. All of the oxygen which we need even with believe in Fargo depend on the rank them as people living in New York on the or on the seas and Norwegian anthropologist Explorer ecologist and hero of millions hired all I'm going to Hamilton.