 Welcome back folks, Dow. Dow Industries right now at 388, the Nasdaq's up 67, S&P's are up 32. Yesterday, folks, is Wayne Vergent. Wayne is the CEO of the Tampa Bay Watch. Tampa Bay Watch is dedicated to fostering a healthy Tampa Bay watershed, which we have and which we want to get better. It's a community-driven restoration projects, education programs, outreach events, and literally right down the street for us folks, there's a new pair. And Wayne's put together a new Watch Discovery Center, right, to educate folks, right? Yeah, we opened the new Discovery Center last July as part of the new peer project. It's a combination of an aquarium and a museum. Okay. So it's something for the public to come through. We do educational programs for the kids and then we just launched this brand new ecovessel. So it's a 47-foot catamaran that takes people out. We do trolls on the bay. We do dolphin watch and dolphin identification for NOAA, a part of the scientific recording. Right. And people go out for about 75 minutes, they have a great time, and they learn a lot. That's amazing, man. And then, of course, what we have down here, folks, which is really cool too, we have dolphins, we have turtles, you know? And the turtles are beautiful, man. I mean, there's no doubt about it. Yeah. And there are a million things we can talk about. I know there is. What I'd like to just get into a bit, and because this is really important for everyone across the whole country, folks, okay, is cleaning up waterways, okay? We're talking about, in our case down here, we're talking about old crab traps, right? Yes. We're talking about plastics everywhere, right? And I know I've seen a few, like, we have your website up, and the website is tamperbaywatch.org, folks. So, you know, the volunteer aspect of cleaning the waters, it seems like it's getting a lot better. Is it, what I mean by that is more people are getting educated, more people realize that, hey, man, this is a resource that we need. This is not something like, you know, when this first started, oh, you're a tree-hugger, you're this, you're that. It's like, no, it's seriously, right? I mean, it like blows my mind that, you know, that yeah, that's how it might've started 30 years ago, but all you have to do is realize that if you don't have an ecosystem, you don't have anything. That's right. That's the backbone of water is life. Yes. So we all need it. We need to make sure that it's around for us and for our children. One of the things that's amazing is that people are learning to get more engaged. But as we learned down here this summer with Red Tide. Yes. You know, we... Huge problem. It is, and what happened was back in the 70s, 60 minutes to the story on Tampa Bay and it was declared a dead bay. There was no life in there back in 74. They said there's so little life there was really hardly anything left there. And so we've done some incredible turnaround in that over the last 40 years because of organizations like Tampa Bay Watch to be able to go in and do boots on the ground projects like our oyster refall projects as an example. I'll talk about that in a minute. Yes. Where we go out and actually do things that help clean the water. Right. We help improve them. Oyster refalls are something we built out there with volunteers. So it's a community-driven project. Yes. And basically we install these 200 pound oyster refalls, the concrete domes. Okay. And they populate with oysters. Everyone collects somewhere between 1,000 and 2,500 oysters on these oyster refalls. So they used to just grab onto them. Is that how it happens? The spores are in the water and they just form in there and they start to grow a shell. Yeah. And they start populating on top of each other. The significance of that is that one oyster can clean up to 50 gallons of seawater a day. That's. So when we do, we're looking at an expansion program for example. Yes. And when we take a look at that adding another 500 a year, that's over nine billion gallons of seawater that are cleaned over a year by adding 500 more of these oyster refalls. That is so cool, man. And it's all organic. It's all natural. Yes. You know, they're low maintenance. They protect the shoreline and help with erosion. I mean, it's a win-win-win. And then people have a blast of course because they're participating, but then you're educating them because then they can go back, you know, if they're a vacation down here, they see what you're doing. They can go back to, you know, their oceans somewhere, anywhere in the country or in the world in general. You know what I mean? And really get engaged. Yeah. And there's opportunities for fresh water improvements as well. If they live inland, there's things they can do because it's all tied to an aquifer or to fresh water that people are drinking so they can do something similar with plants for fresh water. Yes. That will have a similar effect to take heavy metals out of the water. And that's the idea is essentially, you know, there are ways that we can improve the quality of life and the quality of the planet that are not gonna change our lives that significantly. Just need to be smarter about it and not ignore the problems. So how did you get into this? Hey. I've been in the zoo of Cramaroll for a number of years. Yeah. I came down here and interesting enough, what I found was I have a scuba diver. Okay. And I came down here. That does it. Yeah. And I said, you know, I want to find a place that an organization that's going out to clean up the water. Right. And I found all these places that were selling t-shirts but they never seemed to actually do anything where they go out and do the projects. Okay. And that's how I discovered Tampa Bay Watch. Right. That's what they do. They go out and put it on the ground. You know what's so cool about that folks, okay? I think all of us, I love the water too. I mean, just being around the water, right? And I don't think that anyone that likes the water, you realize that how important it is and in particular, the type of life that the water gets. You know what I mean? Like we were just up Crystal Bay and I'm watching in Kings Bay and they're doing a lot of work up there. Do you know what I mean? A lot of volunteers, you know, getting that algae off the bottom, which is a huge deal. And then once that grass comes back folks and you wouldn't believe the amount of animals that come in. And I've seen it within two years, the amount of animals, it's just amazing. You know what I mean? I'd hate to be one of those animals because they get eaten so fast. They do, I mean, they really do, but you know, it's real. And that's what seagrass does. It acts as a nursery for small, some of the big fish that are game fish that we go out for, right? Yes. They start out as smaller species and they're protected by being able to hide in the seagrass as well as being the food for manatees and sea turtles and other animals, which is phenomenal. But we're talking a bit about the red tide and since, you know, we'll talk about, we'll talk about urine, we'll talk about finance for a minute, right? There's also a significant economic impact to all of this. And the last time red tide came through in Pinellas County in this area, I think the estimated loss was about 130 million in tax revenue for that summer of 2018. And right now the adding tape is still running here in terms of what the impact is from red tide this year. So things like we're doing are things that are natural ways to help recover from that. People say, what can I do? Get involved in a project, help plant some of these things, be a good neighbor, clean up after yourself, don't throw plastics in the water. Those, all those things, they add up. They do. And make a big difference. They add up. And you know, I love that you brought up the idea that the economic benefits, because I remember having a guy on, I forgot who he was like 20 years ago, right? And he was explaining and what it was, I think it was like at the highs of 2000, okay? And what he was explaining is that you gotta, that he was explaining the quality of life and that you should have a number on that, okay? We have numbers on everything else. And when you're talking about what is the quality of life worth when you, me, when you're bringing the family down to the water, that's worth a fortune. And you know, this was a financial guy and was really cool, I understand that. You know what I mean? Because I really started looking and I said, well that's an equation that's very important. You know, I mean the bottom line is that, great, you know, you can have a million bucks but if you walk down and you have a dead freaking ocean, what do you have? Yeah, you have nothing. All these visitors this summer came down, July 4th, big weekend for the pier and that makes them, you know, coming down, people are so excited and it's loaded with dead fish. Yeah, that was heavy. And the city did a great job of staying on top of cleaning it up. You know, it took something like, I don't know what it was, 750 tons of dead fish out of the area because the red tide coming through and that tide back over to spill from Piney Point, we believe, you know, and the impact from that on adding fertilizers into the bay. Right. So how many people were impacted by that? How many people in hotels on St. Pete Beach? How many people in Pinellas County? Totally. And then how many people can't breathe? Just stay right here, we got a quick break, we're gonna come right back. 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Now, they're finding it embedded in the flesh when they put it under a microscope. And a recent study- Because the plastic's got so small, broken up. Right, but it's still plastic. Yeah, it's still plastic. So, we're eating it. We're eating it, we're eating and drinking about a credit card-sized piece of plastic per week for every human being on the planet. That's how much is out there. And it's plastic, which is a petroleum-based product, and so, you know, you wonder why cancer rates are so high. I'm gonna say that, man. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's scary. And so, whatever we throw out, whatever we discard, whatever we're not using, it doesn't go away. You know, some of it does. Some things break down naturally, but so much of it doesn't. And so, we're being conscious of that and finding better solutions that make sure that we're gonna be around, that our grandchildren are gonna be around. Totally. You know, that's it. This is survival of the race. And you know, multiple generations. It is. And I'm sure that many people are saying, man, you know, I never thought that plastic could actually get inside of us, but it's very easy. You can see it's very easy. There's no doubt. They said one of the highest concentrations is in salt. Think about how small salt is and that you got microplastics inside of salt. I see that. Yeah, I can see that for sure. Folks, the website is tamperbaywatch.org. Get over there. He has a donation pot in there, too. Let's get him some bread, man. The bottom line is that this is a beautiful thing. I appreciate you being here. I appreciate all the work you're doing. And you know, love to have you back.