We've been through this before with other ways of offshore drilling.

This is offshore.

And (Drilling noise) (Laughter)

It's a scientific drilling vessel.

Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae.

The first offshore wells were called whales.

The first offshore drills were called harpoons.

My point is that this is not oil drilling.

The part program is just ending a drilling operation

Now, why do we want to do this offshore?

It was six miles offshore and 1,250 feet down.

And finally, because it's an offshore structure, we can think in terms of how it might contribute to an aquaculture activity offshore.

Without any sovereign backing, a Nigerian company raising capital offshore.

Have Harry bring me the spreadsheets for Canary Island's Offshore.

longwall mining, fracking, tar sands, tar shale, deep ocean Arctic drilling.

But at the heart of this, is the offshore banking network.

Formations, like these require long hours of intensive drilling and careful judgement.

It was the greed and recklessness that led to the drilling explosion.

Owns banks in the Caymans runs investment portfolios for offshore drug money.

Along the eastern seaboard, we're going to lead the nation in offshore wind.

Do you know if anybody's doing any drilling or blasting or anything like that?

Where are we going to put this, and what will it look like offshore?

One billion dollars of our taxpayers' money has been located in offshore bank accounts.

But the popularity of offshore pirate radio made the government rethink the rules of broadcasting.

Why are we drilling for more oil, when it's polluting the atmosphere and causing oil spills?

And it's known that migrating birds, for example, get very disoriented because of these offshore platforms.

like vultures that pick them off on a beach or predatory fish that are waiting offshore.

We stopped drilling in ANWR, but we didn't actually reduce the amount of oil that we consumed.

And so what we did was, actually, we made moratoriums on the east and west coasts on drilling.

And what we found after drilling back in time two to 400 years was that these were unique events.

And here, scientists are drilling into the past of our planet to find clues to the future of climate change.

For example, South Africa was recently voted as the top destination for the top 1,000 UK companies for offshore call centers.

long distance drilling core into the center of rock that we bring up and there's bacteria in the pores of that rock.

And of course, with wind, you could put it all over the East Coast, offshore theoretically, or you can split it up.

So that means drilling for oil in the deepest water, including the icy Arctic seas, where a clean up may simply be impossible.

And the catheters they shoved into me without proper medication made me scream out the way the Earth cries out from the drilling.

This is a crazy thing, this big drill rig wrapped in a blanket to keep everybody warm, drilling at temperatures of minus 40.

It was actually developed for use by the offshore oil industry for diving on oil rigs down to a depth of 2,000 feet.

And he's telling us that for the 1.6 billion cost of the project, one billion dollars has been traced to offshore bank accounts.

I then compare my information to the things I find on the Internet satellite images, weather data from weather stations as well as offshore buoys.

This is the city of San Francisco, which has 900 miles of sewer pipes under the city already, and it releases its waste water offshore.

So it's really gotten to a stage now in NASA where they would like to spin it out into something which would go offshore, and there are a lot of issues with doing it in the United States because of limited permitting issues and the time required to get permits to do things offshore.

You're going to open an offshore plant in China, you're going to spend it all on sales and marketing, you're going to go to Tahiti, whatever.

In fact, about 80 percent of the active ingredients in medicines now come from offshore, particularly China and India, and we don't have a governance system.

So that trip just ended, and I can't show you too many results from that right now, but we'll go back one more year, to another drilling expedition I've been involved in.