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Out of Plain Sight (2025)

Name: Out of Plain Sight
Director: Daniel Straub
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-02-07
Duration: 1 h 34 min
Rating: 10.0
Cast: Dr. David Valentine, Dr. Alissa Deming, Dr. Eunha Hoh, Rosanna Xia, Allan Chartrand

A haunting tip prompts a Los Angeles Times reporter to discover that as many as half a million barrels of toxic waste had been dumped into the ocean, just off the coast of Southern California.

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From the Los Angeles Times and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Rosanna Xia, OUT OF PLAIN SIGHT is a cinematic exposé of an environmental disaster lurking just off the coast of Southern California. Not far from Catalina Island, aboard one of the most-advanced research ships in the world, David Valentine discovered a corroded barrel on the seafloor that gave him chills. The full environmental horror sharpens into greater clarity once he calls Xia, who pieces together a shocking revelation: In the years after World War II, as many as half a million barrels of toxic waste had been quietly dumped into the ocean – and the consequences continue to haunt the world today.