Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans audiobook runs 12.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Mel Foster (about 8.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 26 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
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What our data says
- At 12.6 hours, it runs longer than 91% of the 4,073 Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Mel Foster
Mel Foster narrates 158 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,838 hours in all.
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans is an audiobook by Capt. Charles Moore and Cassandra Phillips: a 12.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Mel Foster, released October 31, 2011, on the Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Mel Foster
- Released
- October 31, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781452674605
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans audiobook?
Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans runs 12.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.4 hours.
Is the Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans?
Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans is narrated by Mel Foster.
Is Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.4 hours, saving 4.2 hours.