Synopsis
Deadly nerve agents like mustard gas and sarin. High-powered explosives. Hundreds of thousands of tones of the most toxic materials known to humanity lie scattered on the floor of the world's oceans - in barrels that are rusting away and releasing their lethal contents. The results could make Chernobyl look like a child's chemistry experiment gone awry.

While we worry about weapons of mass destruction in the hands of rogue states, the West's legacy may prove far more dangerous. During the Second World War, Canada produced more chemical weapons than any other of the Allies. After the war, and during the Cold War era, massive weapons stockpiles were simply dumped into the ocean by the United States, Britain, Canada, the Soviet Union and Germany. They were considered buried and done with. Problem solved - forever. In many cases, nobody ever bothered to mark their locations. Information about known dumps was either mishandled or suppressed.

Buried at Sea takes us on a journey to discover some of the most dangerous dump sites and to limit the threat they pose. The oceans are vast and unknown; it took almost 90 years to find the wreck of the Titanic. Finding weapons lying underwater will prove infinitely harder - and far more urgent. It is a search on which rests the health of marine species and coastal communities. Buried at Sea takes us on that search.

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