The film provides information about the pollution of the Black Sea with hydrogen sulfide, sets the task of restoring its ecology. A type of dead fish killed by hydrogen sulfide contamination and thrown away on the Black Sea coast. Scuba divers conduct research underwater. Research vessel of the Marine Hydrophysical Institute in the Black Sea; laboratory facilities on board. Scientists are conducting research on sea water. Types of surface and deep water layers of the Black Sea. Aeration of water in shallow sea water using devices developed by scientists from the All-Union and Azov-Black Sea research institutes of fisheries and oceanography. Interview of M.E. Vinogradov, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oceanology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and K.M.Sytnik, Vice President of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, on the need to create a program for the study of the Black Sea.