The Big Sea

Surfing is killing it. This $10 billion global industry built on a clean, green dream has never been more popular. But surfing has a dirty secret, and people are dying. The Big Sea is the award-winning independent documentary exposing surfing’s hidden links to “Cancer Alley”—a corridor of land than runs along the banks of the Mississippi between New Orleans and Baton Rouge—and the devastating impact of our toxic addiction to Neoprene, a synthetic material born out of a carcinogenic chemical process so toxic that the California government requires wetsuits to carry health warnings.  
 
In this exploration of the toxic nature of wetsuits, The Big Sea reveals how Cancer Alley is home to more than 150 petrochemical plants and factories, among them a plant owned by Japanese chemical giant Denka, which makes the majority of chloroprene rubber chips used by the surfing industry.