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But, as I was approaching the end of my water reserves, luckily, our courses were converging.
但是正當(dāng)我儲(chǔ)備的水接近枯竭時(shí)，我們幸運(yùn)地碰到了一起。
They were running out of food; I was running out of water.
他們沒(méi)有了食物，我沒(méi)有了水。
So we liaised by satellite phone and arranged to meet up.
我們用衛(wèi)星電話(huà)取得了聯(lián)系，安排見(jiàn)面。
And it took about a week for us to actually gradually converge.
大約一周以后，我們才真正會(huì)了面。
I was doing a pathetically slow speed of about 1.3 knots,
我劃行的速度慢的可憐，只有1.3海里，
and they were doing only marginally less pathetic speed of about 1.4: it was like two snails in a mating dance.
而他們的最低速度也少于1.4海里，就像兩只蝸牛在緩慢地跳著交歡舞。
But, eventually, we did manage to meet up and Joel hopped overboard,
不管怎么樣，我們最終還是會(huì)面了，喬伊跳下船，
caught us a beautiful, big mahi-mahi, which was the best food I'd had in, ooh, at least three months.
為我們抓住了一條漂亮的大鲯鰍魚(yú)，這是我在三個(gè)月以來(lái)吃到的最好吃的東西。
Fortunately, the one that he caught that day was better than this one they caught a few weeks earlier.
我們很走運(yùn)，那天抓到的魚(yú)要比幾個(gè)星期前他抓到的那要好。
When they opened this one up, they found its stomach was full of plastic.
當(dāng)他們?cè)佐~(yú)的時(shí)候，發(fā)現(xiàn)魚(yú)的胃里全是塑料。
And this is really bad news because plastic is not an inert substance.
糟糕的是，塑料是惰性物質(zhì)。
It leaches out chemicals into the flesh of the poor critter that ate it,
可憐的小生物吃下這些塑料，而后塑料分解出的化學(xué)物質(zhì)進(jìn)入他們的肌體里，
and then we come along and eat that poor critter, and we get some of the toxins accumulating in our bodies as well.
然后我們?cè)俪阅切┛蓱z的生物，然后這些有毒物質(zhì)也會(huì)在我們的身體里積攢起來(lái)。
So there are very real implications for human health.
這也會(huì)對(duì)我們?nèi)祟?lèi)的健康造成潛在的危害。
I eventually made it to Hawaii still alive.
最后，我還是活著到了夏威夷。
And, the following year, set out on the second stage of the Pacific, from Hawaii down to Tarawa.
轉(zhuǎn)年，我又出發(fā)，進(jìn)行我橫渡太平洋的第二個(gè)階段，從夏威夷到塔拉瓦。
And you'll notice something about Tarawa; it is very low-lying.
你們也許對(duì)塔拉瓦有所了解，它的海拔很低。
It's that little green sliver on the horizon, which makes them very nervous about rising oceans.
它就像地平線(xiàn)上的一小段綠線(xiàn)，這使得他們非常擔(dān)心海平面的上升。
This is big trouble for these guys. They've got no points of land more than about six feet above sea level.
對(duì)這些人來(lái)講，這是個(gè)大麻煩。在高于海平面六英尺的地方就沒(méi)有立錐之地了。
And also, as an increase in extreme weather events due to climate change,
然而，極端天氣的增多導(dǎo)致氣候變化，
they're expecting more waves to come in over the fringing reef, which will contaminate their fresh water supply.
巨浪也會(huì)隨之增多，巨浪淹沒(méi)岸礁，就將導(dǎo)致他們的淡水源受到污染。
