Aboard one of the most-advanced research ships in the world, on a seemingly unremarkable day, David Valentine decoded unusual signals underwater that gave him chills. As he scanned the seafloor with a deep-sea robot, he came across a trail of eerie-looking barrels that no one had seen before. He spent years sounding the alarm, but calls to the government went nowhere. He finally messaged Rosanna Xia, a reporter at the L.A. Times, who unearthed a startling truth: as many as half a million barrels of DDT waste had been quietly dumped into the ocean. The full environmental horror sharpens into even greater clarity once Xia starts to connect more dots: Sea lions have washed ashore with cancer in staggering numbers, and significant amounts of DDT can still be traced across the entire marine ecosystem. A new generation is now grasping the words of Rachel Carson, who first shook the world awake in 1962 with Silent Spring: “The obligation to endure … gives us the right to know.”
Title | Out of Plain Sight |
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Year | 2024 |
Genre | Documentary |
Country | United States of America |
Studio | LA Times Studios, Sypher Studios |
Cast | Dr. David Valentine, Dr. Alissa Deming, Dr. Eunha Hoh, Rosanna Xia, Allan Chartrand, Charlotte Seid |
Crew | Daniel Straub (Director), Rosanna Xia (Director), Austin Straub (Director of Photography), James Ellington (Original Music Composer), Rachel Lautzenheiser (Music Supervisor), Austin Straub (Editor) |
Keyword | ocean, los angeles, california, water pollution, investigative journalism, sea lion, environmental documentary, science, forever chemicals |
Release | Nov 16, 2024 |
Runtime | 94 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 0.00 / 10 by 0 users |
Popularity | 4 |
Budget | 0 |
Revenue | 0 |
Language | English |