I’m interested in how the ocean remembers traces of the human world in its nonhuman formations. How do we imagine the ocean bottom as an archive of human feats and failures? And in what ways does this archive exceed the bounds of what we can imagine? The fluidity of the seas requires new imaginaries of how those traces remain on the bodies of marine animals as well as in the water and at the seabed. Key to my interests is how the ocean remembers waste. Pollution is archived for instance in sargassum blooms, in the stomachs of fish and birds, as well as in plastic gyres and the rusted remains of human artifacts that snow down to the seafloor. Beyond the ocean’s status as a natural archive, I also examine the ways that we impose our own archival frameworks in institutions such as marine sediment libraries or shipwreck museums.