WW11 Submarines, Marine Debris, Bay Protection

As so often happens with Marinara, a theme has emerged for this week's show - defence - against WWII submarines, the rising influx of plastics on our coastlines, and introduced marine pest species. • Maritime Heritage expert Rex Hunter talks about WWII incidents in Bass Strait through the early 1940s, and the flight of a Japanese ‘glen float plane’ over Melbourne in 1942. • We’ll speak with Jordan Gacutan from the University of New South Wales about what has been revealed after his team analysed 10 years of information from the Australian Marine Debris Initiative, one of the largest marine debris databases in the Southern Hemisphere, and created a national map of patterns in marine debris. • And Fam will catch us up on a brand new Bay protection project that is currently recruiting volunteers to form Rapid Response Teams around the Bay, who will be trained in marine pest ID and help remove mass aggregations of Northern Pacific Seastars when they wash up on our shores.