while trying to save nemo, marlin meets dory, a good-hearted and optimistic regal blue tang with short-term memory loss. while meeting three sharks on a fish-free diet, bruce, a great white shark; anchor, a hammerhead shark; and chum, a mako shark, marlin discovers the diver's mask that was dropped from the boat and notices an address written on it. however, when he angrily argues with dory and accidentally gives her a nosebleed, the scent of blood causes bruce to lose control of himself and attempt to eat marlin and dory. the two escape from bruce but the mask falls into a trench in the deep sea. during a hazardous struggle with an anglerfish in the trench, dory realizes she is able to read the address written on the mask, which leads to sydney, australia, and manages to remember it. she repeats " p. sherman 42 wallaby way sydney" to keep it in her memory. after receiving directions to sydney from a large school of silver moony, marlin and dory accidentally run into a bloom of jellyfish that nearly sting them to death; marlin falls exhausted after the risky escape and wakes up to see a surf-cultured green sea turtle named crush, who takes dory and him on the east australian current, referred to as the eac by the animals. in the current, marlin shares the story of his journey with a group of young sea turtles who spread the story around the ocean.