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Chasing Coral (2017) is an inspiring documentary that follows a team of divers, photographers, and scientists as they explore the beauty and diversity of coral reefs around the world. Through stunning underwater visuals, the film highlights the importance of marine ecosystems and the fascinating life they support.
Featuring breathtaking cinematography and engaging storytelling, Chasing Coral (2017) emphasizes exploration, curiosity, and learning about the natural world. Its educational and family-friendly narrative makes it suitable for viewers of all ages.
Perfect for fans of nature documentaries, environmental stories, and educational films, this documentary delivers awe-inspiring visuals, fascinating marine insights, and an engaging journey into the wonders of the ocean.
Featuring breathtaking cinematography and engaging storytelling, Chasing Coral (2017) emphasizes exploration, curiosity, and learning about the natural world. Its educational and family-friendly narrative makes it suitable for viewers of all ages.
Perfect for fans of nature documentaries, environmental stories, and educational films, this documentary delivers awe-inspiring visuals, fascinating marine insights, and an engaging journey into the wonders of the ocean.
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00:30:38this was completely different from any other scuba diving i've done
00:30:56and any other scuba diving that one would normally do
00:30:59this was construction underwater you're working in an environment that humans weren't built for
00:31:06you also can't communicate with your team other than through sign language and we are not good at
00:31:13it so the camera gets mounted flush to this display and we can adjust the height of this
00:31:19you can adjust the angle of this
00:31:25you're in zero gravity so if you're trying to get leverage to put something into the ground
00:31:30you don't have that you're floating you're buoyant
00:31:37is that thunder that's our weather that's a weather alert i hear crackling sound yeah
00:31:43is that static i hope that's not lightning oh my god that's lighting do you hear that yes i hear it
00:31:49in my microphone i think you should probably turn the cameras off i don't know can we get the metal
00:31:55thing down i kind of don't want to touch it because of this vacuum sealed glass dome we couldn't actually
00:32:04change any of the settings inside on the cameras so they attach this wire going to a box on the boat on
00:32:10the surface you have a cable attached to a stationary device underwater and it's plugged into a very
00:32:16delicate piece of equipment boom we're in now let's see if this is going to behave today and you can sit
00:32:23there on the boat with a tablet and you can adjust the settings and you can see what the camera is doing
00:32:30underwater um watch this cable are we can you move us a little closer i'm just nervous
00:32:41a little bit the wind just took us the stern anchor didn't hold we're just drifting
00:33:11all right all right so let's let's take a look so basically you got a few millimeters of water in
00:33:35there probably splashed on an electrical connection probably blew the 12 volt fuse you're probably fine
00:33:41here is what that's looking like at the moment we've kind of tore her apart to access her and attempt
00:33:48to clean gee mini cricket look at that mess okay we're gonna be just fine i basically would like you to
00:33:55take 12 volts directly from the battery all right let's give this one more try all right here goes everything
00:34:11do we have a new message do we have a new message oh we're good oh we connected
00:34:25that does look killer look at that that is brilliant man i have a file on my computer
00:34:33i'm so happy right now this is awesome after that there was nothing to do but wait
00:35:01As a kid growing up, I always had this sweet spot
00:35:30for taxonomy, which I don't really know how to put my finger on that.
00:35:35I always wanted to know what things were, and I wanted to know the scientific name.
00:35:41So I fell in love with catching all these little critters and coming back and having
00:35:45a bunch of guides to help me figure out what they were.
00:35:48And so when I got into coral, there were only a handful of resources from one guy,
00:35:55this guy, Charlie Barron.
00:35:56Every time I was looking something up, there he was.
00:36:02There are about 340 species of coral on the Great Barrier Reef.
00:36:06There's one just over there that's about six meters high.
00:36:12Barron's, at the purposes, he's the godfather of coral reef science.
00:36:16He's the first guy to really go down and start cataloging corals, and I wish I could be that
00:36:21guy, but I was born a little too late.
00:36:24Here we have thousands upon thousands of species all interacting together in a complex way.
00:36:31Corals, unlike any other form of life on Earth except man, have the capacity to build their
00:36:36own environments, to create their own habitats.
00:36:38Think of a city.
00:36:45Corals are experts at creating high-rises.
00:36:50They're basically creating this incredible dimensionality, this three-dimensional framework.
00:36:56The more complex a structure, the more biodiversity can potentially live there.
00:37:04In a healthy coral reef system, the entire landscape is covered with coral.
00:37:09They're competing for space with one another.
00:37:12They grow over and under.
00:37:14You look at the Great Barrier Reef, it's really the Manhattan of the ocean.
00:37:20This hugely diverse and complex city.
00:37:24And like in a city, the fish are living in very specific places.
00:37:28It's a bit like a neighborhood.
00:37:30You go back to a neighborhood and you see the same people.
00:37:33The same fish is living in the same piece of coral week after week.
00:37:39They live there pretty much their entire life.
00:37:43In the morning and the afternoon, you actually have traffic on the reef.
00:37:46You've got fish which have, like, spent the night on the reef and then they go out to feed
00:37:51and all swim together.
00:37:53So, they're busy places.
00:37:55When the sun starts coming up, you actually have a morning chorus,
00:38:01which is similar to what we get when we hear the birds waking up in the forest when the sun comes up.
00:38:05When you listen closely, you hear things purring.
00:38:09You hear the grunts and the groans of so many different animals.
00:38:13It's not a silent world at all.
00:38:14It's actually pretty noisy.
00:38:17Each fish, each animal, has its own job.
00:38:20It does its own thing.
00:38:22They're a fish that farm.
00:38:24They actually grow little plants or algae and they'll go pick a piece of algae and plant it
00:38:30and look after that area.
00:38:33There are crabs and lobsters and little shrimps that will do things like defend corals.
00:38:39There are strange partnerships, like moray eels, which will hunt with coral trout.
00:38:44Completely different fish, but they work together to hunt across the reef and they share the meal.
00:38:50One of the things you notice is this sort of crunching noise.
00:38:53And this is the parrotfish.
00:38:55These are fish that have beaks and they actually eat the coral and they're crunching away at the coral.
00:38:59When that coral passes through the parrotfish, it comes out as sand.
00:39:04So, in fact, every single beach, you're basically walking on parrotfish poo.
00:39:13Coral reefs are hugely important for the ocean because they're essentially the nursery.
00:39:18And they say something like 25% of all marine life relies on coral reefs.
00:39:23We've got half a billion to a billion people that rely on coral reefs as their main source of food.
00:39:32Without that protein, they're going to be malnourished.
00:39:37Their culture, their way of life, their economies are all reliant on healthy coral reefs.
00:39:43And many of the new drugs that are coming to help humans come from the sea.
00:39:51There's a drug called prostaglandin that comes from sea fans and that fights cancer.
00:39:57There's another one called bryostatin that comes from coral rhizoans and it fights cancer too.
00:40:02There are so many things that we don't know yet that could help society through the novel chemistries
00:40:09that we find on coral reef organisms.
00:40:14Coral reefs are producing a breakwater that's protecting us from big waves from cyclones.
00:40:21They're better than the ones that we can produce because they're growing it and rebuilding it all the time.
00:40:25The corals are the real basis of that ecosystem.
00:40:32You can't have a city without buildings.
00:40:36And you can't have a coral reef without the corals.
00:40:55So we went back to the Bahamas to retrieve camera number one after its time.
00:41:25We're going to keep our fingers crossed and hope we have plenty of footage.
00:41:37Hoping that there's at least a month and a half.
00:41:48Bingo.
00:41:49That's out of focus.
00:42:01All of these are out of focus.
00:42:05This is a big bummer.
00:42:09In focus.
00:42:11And then the first one after that's out of focus.
00:42:15And it progressively gets worse.
00:42:16You see that?
00:42:19All of this footage is out of focus.
00:42:23And pretty much useless.
00:42:30I hope they worked elsewhere.
00:42:49We're out of focus here.
00:42:53We're out of focus here.
00:42:57I thought we were okay.
00:43:00Damn it.
00:43:01So how bad are the images?
00:43:06Bad.
00:43:08Not usable.
00:43:10Unusable.
00:43:10And so it's already soft.
00:43:12Yep.
00:43:13And there it gets softer and softer and softer.
00:43:17I've never heard of manual focus changing over time.
00:43:26Hawaii bleached.
00:43:27It had the worst bleaching it's ever had.
00:43:29It's just that we didn't manage to capture it.
00:43:35We put a lot of effort getting those cameras down.
00:43:38And we thought we'd done everything right.
00:43:41And it's a huge knockback.
00:43:44More so because we knew the clock was against us.
00:43:48We didn't know how long the bleaching event was going to last.
00:43:50I've been looking at the latest sea temperature values for the Australian region and it's
00:44:02definitely warmer than it's been for quite a while.
00:44:05That coastal area is probably going to continue to warm.
00:44:08Yep.
00:44:09If you're into bleaching, uh, this is a good sign.
00:44:13Yep.
00:44:13Of course it means horrible things to the reef.
00:44:1630 seconds.
00:44:17Zach and Trevor went all in and just fixed the problem.
00:44:22Square that pops up on this square.
00:44:23We changed to a fixed lens and it allowed us to get rid of all of the focus issues that we had.
00:44:29We have such a better system going.
00:44:32I'm much more confident it's going to work.
00:44:38I'm standing on one of the two and a half thousand or so enormous platform reefs that make up
00:45:04Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
00:45:06But very few people can realize that this is the largest structure ever made by life on earth.
00:45:13These reefs extend along the tropical coastline of Australia.
00:45:16A distance of over 2,000 kilometers.
00:45:19The length of the entire east coast of the United States of America.
00:45:23I always wanted to go to the Great Barrier Reef.
00:45:26I want to see it for its beauty and always wanted to get there.
00:45:29That's the goal, always been the goal.
00:45:41Dude, you're about to see the GBR from the air.
00:45:44That's actually a very exciting thing.
00:45:54It's just amazing to think about how massive it is.
00:45:57It's just amazing to think about how massive it is and it's all alive.
00:46:11It's just amazing to think about how massive it is and the pleasure of the youth us together in your nation and our eurem world.
00:46:27holy
00:46:41So we're sending two teams to the southern Great Barrow Reef.
00:46:46We're sending Jeff and Zach to Keppel,
00:46:49and we're sending Andrew and team to Heron.
00:47:11The camera's in, and it's running.
00:47:27The most smooth that any of these have gone.
00:47:31It was so smooth in Hawaii.
00:47:34And then we waited.
00:47:42Waited for that warm water to come.
00:47:46Already, biologists say some corals are dying, bleached white,
00:47:52a sign in the first stage of death.
00:47:55You're talking an event similar to the rainforest of the world,
00:47:59turning white over a very short period of time.
00:48:02Everyone will be jumping up and taking notice,
00:48:04wondering what the hell is happening.
00:48:07You may think, well, this is just a cycle that we go through.
00:48:11Good morning. Coral bleaching in Hawaii has gained a lot of attention.
00:48:15This certainly isn't a natural cycle.
00:48:18This is a phenomenon directly attributed to climate change,
00:48:23and it's something that we've only seen in recent years.
00:48:32One of the ways of looking back in time with a reef
00:48:35is to take coral cores, or slices through coral.
00:48:38You can look at growth rings in corals in the same way
00:48:40as you can look at growth rings in trees.
00:48:46You can see a regular, normal growth pattern.
00:48:48This coral grows at around a centimeter and a half per year,
00:48:53every year, right up until 1998,
00:48:55where you start to see the signature of a coral bleaching event.
00:49:00By tracking back in time, by looking at the history of the reef,
00:49:03we're absolutely certain that what we're seeing now
00:49:06is not a natural fluctuation.
00:49:08The cause is unequivocally global climate change
00:49:12driven by emitting carbon into the atmosphere.
00:49:16I think a lot of people don't realise that climate change is happening
00:49:19because most of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases
00:49:23has been transferred to the oceans.
00:49:25When you burn fossil fuel, that's burning oil, gas, or coal,
00:49:32carbon dioxide goes up into the atmosphere.
00:49:34Carbon dioxide has the property that it's able to trap heat.
00:49:38So the more you have in the atmosphere,
00:49:41the greater the amount of heat trapped by the Earth.
00:49:45It's a bit like putting extra wool into your sweater.
00:49:48What people don't know is that 93% of the heat that's trapped
00:49:54is going into the ocean.
00:49:56That's a lot of energy.
00:49:58If the oceans weren't doing this job of absorbing the heat,
00:50:02the average surface temperature of the planet
00:50:04would be 122 Fahrenheit.
00:50:10There are rates of change going on in tropical oceans,
00:50:13which, if projected forward, it means that coral reefs
00:50:17are a likely casualty of any global climate change.
00:50:22I published that in the peer-reviewed literature.
00:50:25At that point in time, people weren't quite ready for that,
00:50:28and I had a lot of colleagues that were confronting me,
00:50:31challenging me, attacking me.
00:50:34He was ridiculed for this, for being an alarmist,
00:50:38but over time, he's been proved right time and time again.
00:50:43I just love the reef.
00:50:45That's why I did this thing.
00:50:47That's why I came here when I was 18 to this island
00:50:49and started to study the reef.
00:50:50It wasn't because I thought it was going to disappear
00:50:53or I was trying to battle a problem called global climate change.
00:50:56It's unfortunate that I can't look at this thing
00:51:00and still see the beauty.
00:51:01I see the problems.
00:51:06This wonderful thing, this thing that's been around
00:51:08for a very long time, is threatened in our lifetime
00:51:11and on our watch.
00:51:12And however hard we try to get people to listen,
00:51:19it seems to be lost in the wind, you know?
00:51:23and the weather's really the controlling factor right now.
00:51:39Storms and the weather is really the controlling factor right now.
00:51:50The wind and the storms continue rolling through and we get cloud coverage, we might not see
00:51:56a whole lot happen here at Keppel.
00:52:04For the first time, we felt like we were in the right place at the right time.
00:52:15And when Hurricane Winston happened, all of that changed.
00:52:20It caused a lot of cold water and a lot of rain to come to the Southern Great Barrier Reef.
00:52:25Part of me is happy that the corals aren't going to bleach here.
00:52:28It actually makes me ecstatic to think that they're going to make it through this event.
00:52:33But at the same time, we've tried so hard to capture this.
00:52:38We essentially had to make a really difficult decision to stick to our original plan with
00:52:43less than ideal odds.
00:52:46Or we go check out some of these other portions of the Great Barrier Reef that were getting
00:52:50really warm.
00:52:51Just all of this to the north of New Caledonia and below and even these splotch areas of
00:52:56alert level two.
00:52:58It's just nothing short of catastrophic for the coral.
00:53:02We know now New Caledonia is bleaching, Blizzard Island is bleaching.
00:53:10So I guess it is a simple decision in some ways that we should just pick up and move over
00:53:13and re-sit up at those new locations.
00:53:17The problem is the time-lapse cameras.
00:53:19It'll take weeks to move those systems and we'll have missed the bleaching.
00:53:27We're going to have to figure something else out.
00:53:31I went to turn my computer off and there was this message from Jeff saying, how soon can
00:53:35you pack?
00:53:38We were going to abandon these camera systems and do manual underwater time lapses every
00:53:47single day.
00:53:48I think we as a team realized that there was no going back.
00:53:54We headed up to Lizard Island and the other portion of our team went out to New Caledonia.
00:54:18We headed up to New Caledonia and the other portion of our team went out to New Caledonia.
00:54:46It's the most amazing reef.
00:54:48And it's just demolished.
00:54:53It's just so hot.
00:54:55Like it literally feels like a bathtub.
00:54:59Did anybody order a large Coke?
00:55:12Here we are talking about coral reef bleaching and global climate change.
00:55:17Here's our other problem.
00:55:19When we went to Lizard Island we didn't have our time-lapse cameras anymore.
00:55:24The idea is to take one tripod and one camera and get as many shots as we can in as many
00:55:29positions of as many pieces of coral as we can.
00:55:31And to repeat that every single day.
00:55:36And then you would have to take two shots.
00:55:41And then you would have to take two minutes of
00:55:43footage.
00:55:44Each leg at the correct height.
00:55:46And then you would have reference points that you could then attach the laser beams to.
00:55:50And then I had a lamination of the first day's shots.
00:55:53And then you would take two minutes of footage.
00:55:55And then you pick everything back up.
00:55:57Move on to the next site.
00:55:58And do the same thing over again.
00:55:59And then again.
00:56:00And again.
00:56:01And you do that essentially 25 times a day.
00:56:03Between Jeff and I we had 60 sites.
00:56:10The reason we built the time-lapse systems was it seemed absurd to have people camped on
00:56:15the beach at multiple locations and having to go down and do what a machine is designed
00:56:19to do.
00:56:20Logistically it was a nightmare.
00:56:22You're getting in the right position and you're fighting the current so you're getting bounced
00:56:27around a lot.
00:56:28Your knees are bleeding everywhere.
00:56:30Your body is cut up.
00:56:31You're tired.
00:56:36Well, it got to the point where you're spending four hours a day under water.
00:56:40Weird things start happening.
00:56:42I don't know if it's funny.
00:56:45It's, uh, you do what you have to do.
00:56:52You don't even think so...
00:57:13It's the thing for you.
00:57:21We were getting reports that the corals in New Caledonia were doing something completely weird.
00:57:44Richard was there, and he said,
00:57:45It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. I don't know what it is.
00:57:48The locals didn't know what it was.
00:57:51We didn't know what was happening.
00:57:55And I asked Richard to explain it to me, and he said, I don't know what it is. It's a glowing.
00:57:59This was different.
00:58:22The corals were fluorescent.
00:58:26They're producing a chemical sunscreen to protect themselves from the heat.
00:58:34You can't even describe it.
00:58:39They were the most vivid colors I've ever seen.
00:58:45This is the most beautiful transformation in nature, the incredibly beautiful phase of death.
00:58:57And it feels as if it's the corals saying, look at me.
00:59:06And it feels as if it's the corals saying, look at me.
00:59:21Please notice.
00:59:25It's what I love you.
00:59:29Let me talk to you.
00:59:30Amen.
00:59:32May God
00:59:47We were diving every day from a floating restaurant.
01:00:17That was kind of funny the first day.
01:00:24Like that whole thought just became much more depressing.
01:00:32This is one of the rarest events in nature happening and everyone's just oblivious to it.
01:00:54And you can't blame them for it.
01:01:01I mean it's just almost typical of all of humanity.
01:01:07This is going on and no one is noticing.
01:01:20We designed something originally to do this project without emotions.
01:01:26And when we began doing this manually at Lizard Island, you have the emotional ties to it.
01:01:32You are down there and to sit there for a month and every single day watch something new around you die that you saw yesterday.
01:01:41It's difficult.
01:02:09You forget what it looked like at the beginning.
01:02:13And some days when you go back and you're sitting down there looking at it now and it doesn't look real.
01:02:21You can't even accept it.
01:02:28And then you open your eyes and it's dead as far as you can see.
01:02:32It's algae and dead coral skeletons.
01:02:57It's algae and dead coral skeletons.
01:03:04It's algae and dead coral skeletons.
01:03:08It's algae and dead coral Woah.
01:03:10You can't go back and see it.
01:03:11It's algae and dead coral Katrina.
01:03:13It's algae and dead coral.
01:03:16In a stay of the sea, it's algae and dead coral.
01:03:19It's a flesh, it's a living tissue that's rotting away.
01:03:45It's disgusting, really.
01:03:49To be continued...
01:04:12I thought we would find Wei-Ching.
01:04:40I thought we would capture it, but I don't think I ever prepared myself or thought we were
01:04:49going to see this.
01:04:52It's like I'm not even mad that I'm leaving because it's just so miserable here.
01:05:07I don't know.
01:05:14I don't know.
01:05:50It is, in a way, just like the trees in a forest.
01:05:55If coral reefs are lost, we're affecting the life of a quarter of the ocean.
01:05:59The little fish disappear, the big fish disappear, and then you can look at humans as one of
01:06:05the big fish.
01:06:06It's easy to think about the fate of an individual species.
01:06:15But what is a little harder to explain, it's the beginning of an ecological collapse of
01:06:23the entire ecosystem.
01:06:25It's more than the species, the genus, the family, the order.
01:06:30We're talking about the possibility that entire classes of organisms would go extinct.
01:06:40When scientists say they're researching climate change and coral reefs, it's not about whether
01:06:45or not climate change is happening or not.
01:06:47It's really the uncertainty between knowing whether it's going to be bad or really bad.
01:06:54When we look at ocean temperatures, there are a range of projections of how they're going
01:06:58to change into the future.
01:06:59If you take the average, in about 25 years, all across the planet, the oceans become too
01:07:07warm for coral reefs to survive.
01:07:10That means they'll bleach every year and they won't be healthy enough to recover.
01:07:15Coral reefs will not be able to keep up.
01:07:17They will not be able to adapt.
01:07:19And we will see the eradication of an entire ecosystem in our lifespan.
01:07:26That is a very gloomy statement.
01:07:30But unfortunately, it is true.
01:07:35Everything on our planet is connected.
01:07:39What we're doing is pulling out the card called coral reefs from this house of cards.
01:07:46And the real fear is that we'll take out enough of those cards where the whole thing will just
01:07:50simply collapse.
01:07:52If we can't save this ecosystem, are we going to have the courage to save the next ecosystem
01:07:59down the line?
01:08:02Do we need forests?
01:08:05Do we need trees?
01:08:08Do we need reefs?
01:08:11Or can we just sort of live in the ashes of all of that?
01:08:15Yes!
01:08:18Put it in.
01:08:19Yup.
01:08:21Good luck please, thank you.
01:08:22I'm looking at all the storms of 가족 suggest that they have a soak in the Era99
01:08:24Of light for claustrophobic.
01:08:25...
01:08:30...
01:08:33So tell me where we're going.
01:08:36We're actually just going to Charlie Veran's house.
01:08:40Just to literally sit behind a desk for hours a day using Charlie Veran's choral lists to ID things.
01:08:47Like, he was the boss. He was the information that I used on a daily basis to learn everything that I know of chorals.
01:08:55And now I'm about to go sit in his living room and interview him.
01:09:00So that's quite a big step.
01:09:02Hello. Hello, Charlie.
01:09:07I'm Zach. Pleased to meet you.
01:09:25While I was in college studying evolutionary biology, I actually got a job at an aquarium.
01:09:29And so for five years I grew coral, used all of your work to teach myself as much of coral taxonomy as I possibly could.
01:09:36Oh, okay. Yeah.
01:09:38So I was very nervous about it coming here.
01:09:40I'm not the sort of person to be nervous about.
01:09:42No, no, no. But I guess I just want to hear your perspective of the change that you've seen over time.
01:09:49Then it was, it was totally different mindset because the reef was there forever. There was no question about it.
01:09:58Yeah.
01:09:59I even wondered why you would want to make it a marine park because it's so big and nothing's going to touch the Great Barrier Reef.
01:10:04But it's changed enormously. And this bleaching and the degrading of the Great Barrier Reef that I've seen in my lifetime, it really upsets me.
01:10:14Up at Lizard, we essentially have fluorescing or bleached corals going through their entire transition to death and being covered in algae.
01:10:21Covered the whole thing. Yeah, way to go. Yeah, the whole horrible, horrible, ghastly mess.
01:10:26Yeah. It was actually quite difficult while we were up there. I got quite frustrated a few times where I just didn't want to be there anymore.
01:10:33I didn't want to watch it anymore. I was over it.
01:10:36I'm glad I'm not your age. You know, I'm ready to check out when the Great Barrier Reef gets trashed because it's been the most love thing in the physical world of my life.
01:10:49You know, I've been diving on it for 45 years. And I'm damned if I'm ever going to stop until I go completely sanirely.
01:10:56I'm going to keep going. And as long as I can influence people, I will. Because you have to. I've got no choice.
01:11:03You've got no choice, I'm afraid. You've got to keep at it. You've got to.
01:11:07Because otherwise you're not going to like yourself when you're an old man. You're going to like yourself much more if you can say,
01:11:15Well, I sure tried to turn that around. And maybe I did influence people here and there.
01:11:22Don't let anything stop you.
01:11:24Don't let anything stop you.
01:11:32Don't let anything stop you.
01:11:39Losing the Barrier Reef has actually got to mean something.
01:11:44You can't let it just die and it becomes an old textbook.
01:11:50It's got to cause the change that it deserves.
01:11:57Us losing the Great Barrier Reef has got to wake up the world.
01:12:04A really interesting situation.
01:12:06Over the next 30 years, we're going to be facing shifting ocean temperatures and conditions.
01:12:11And that's just a matter of fact.
01:12:19I usually get to these things and you start kind of almost shaking.
01:12:24I definitely have a little bit of nervousness going.
01:12:28How much talking is too much talking? Is getting personal a bad thing?
01:12:33Like talking about heart, this one was one of the more difficult sides for me to go back to a month later.
01:12:38Really good to show that it actually affected you.
01:12:42Right, okay.
01:12:43I think that's really important and good.
01:12:46As long as you don't start crying.
01:12:48Yeah, yeah.
01:12:49Yeah.
01:13:02So over the last two years, we've been amassing a huge amount of bleaching imagery from all over the world.
01:13:09Now Zach's going to show you some of that imagery.
01:13:12So if you want to pop up, Zach.
01:13:17We spent the last four months in Australia and we documented the ongoing bleaching event.
01:13:23And so I wanted to just show you what our team was able to document.
01:13:27The last 10 years.
01:13:28Weese how new we covered the documentary actually.
01:13:29We worked with the poor teammate to stop supporting the three chapters of English,
01:13:30which encourage us to take a perfect ISP with the follower of English,
01:13:31which commented.
01:13:32So I was remembering that non-dалистcing Labs,
01:13:33this is what our team has done for sure.
01:13:34It is now available for us.
01:13:35It's why we have to take care of US and we didn't load a public loan.
01:13:36This is a valid process tomorrow,
01:13:37that MI basic thing and your interest in the first and every reason once we get to this
01:13:52the test or catch us with the tools at the top level found us.
01:13:53Amen.
01:14:23In just two months, we've lost the majority of fish life on this coral colony.
01:14:53The soft corals disintegrate, fields and fields of soft coral that then just turn into
01:15:23a barren rock face.
01:15:28I didn't even think it was possible.
01:15:53I didn't even think it was possible.
01:15:59But I didn't think it was possible.
01:16:01You invented a barren rock face.
01:16:03When you have the first water tank, you will see that.
01:16:08The last water tank is then broken into a barren rock.
01:17:12This has been a mortality event on a massive scale.
01:17:1729% of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef alone have died.
01:17:22To lose 29% of the coral animals in a single year, it's just mind-blowing, the scale of
01:17:32this bleaching event.
01:17:33I think the most shocking part was how widespread it was, because it affected almost all the
01:17:44reefs from Lizard Island North through Torres Strait, and it was severe.
01:17:49It's the equivalent of losing most of the trees between Washington, D.C. and Maine.
01:17:56But this isn't just the Great Barrier Reef.
01:18:01This is a global, massive event.
01:18:04There are a large number of places that are experiencing bleaching right now, and that's
01:18:09why we need help.
01:18:10We're looking for people who have access to a local reef to help photograph what's happening
01:18:14in your own backyard.
01:18:16If you are a diver, please join our effort.
01:18:19Everybody's come together that saw our call out.
01:18:22At this point, we are under a bleaching threshold and under a warning alert for bleaching.
01:18:29Behind me, you can see we have the optimal reefs.
01:18:32Basically, we've seen the colonists almost completely bleached.
01:18:36Water temperature has been rising, and the coral has been bleaching.
01:18:43You're talking about the Caribbean two years in a row.
01:18:45You're talking about Hawaii two years in a row.
01:18:47This last summer was especially horrific.
01:18:5025 to 50% of the coral is already long since dead.
01:18:54We know that the waters here started warming up in May 2015 to about 3 degrees Celsius above normal.
01:19:01Most of the aquapora, the most common branch, corals, are dying.
01:19:14Some of the reefs here have been under major stress, like so many other places across the globe.
01:19:18We're here in the Republic of Palau.
01:19:20I'm currently in Subositi and in Malbar.
01:19:22The corals in this region have been bleached over the past month.
01:19:25The coral is 75% bleaching, and about half of them is dead already.
01:19:30We now have a mass coral bleaching event happening here on the soil.
01:19:34A number of degrees centigrade, and a lot of the reefs around Sri Lanka were heavily bleaching.
01:19:38And it is happening right now.
01:19:40The coral here are showing mass signs of bleaching, and for that reason we have mass mortality rates.
01:19:45The branching of the porous and the post of the porous have started to show signs of bleaching.
01:19:50I've been helping to capture images of coral bleaching in the Red Sea region.
01:19:53Bleaching has occurred here recently.
01:19:55I get crossed with myself because I don't think I did enough, I didn't make enough noise when I realized what was going on.
01:20:13I didn't do enough.
01:20:27Zack has an option of being part of that fight.
01:20:31Maybe Zack will say, Charlie, he's just a gloomy old man, and we can fix these things.
01:20:41Well, good, good, good, good.
01:21:41How are you guys doing today?
01:22:01Good.
01:22:02Are you guys excited?
01:22:03Yeah.
01:22:04Let's go diving.
01:22:06I see a fish.
01:22:13Take a look around.
01:22:16I see a turtle.
01:22:19In my mind, all kids are born scientists.
01:22:22They're born adventurers.
01:22:23They want to explore.
01:22:25If we can get the kids to hold on to that curiosity, then our planet would be a much better place.
01:22:32I could see a stingray.
01:22:35What is that?
01:22:36Turtle, fish, crab, starfish.
01:22:39It's all there, right?
01:22:41We're going to take you on an expedition to go see the third global bleaching event.
01:22:47I think having been on the journey that I've been on, I should be the most depressed person
01:22:51on the planet.
01:22:52I'm seeing the ecosystem that I've fallen in love with die before my eyes.
01:22:58Having said that, I'm not actually depressed.
01:23:02And that's because there's been a big shift.
01:23:06You look at every piece of climate change action and it's about improving people's lives,
01:23:13creation of jobs, reducing pollution, greenifying cities.
01:23:17It's essentially a great transformation that is already beginning.
01:23:23It's not too late for coral reefs.
01:23:26Indeed, for many other ecosystems that are facing challenges from climate change.
01:23:30It's still possible to reduce the rate at which the climate is changing.
01:23:35And that's within our power today.
01:23:38It's all achievable.
01:23:40It's not like we don't have the money.
01:23:42It's not like we don't have the resources.
01:23:44It's not like we don't have the brains.
01:23:48This is inevitable, this great transformation.
01:23:51And that's what makes me so optimistic is all we got to do is give it a bit of a shove.
01:24:21I was just born, I was just born.
01:24:24I've been crawling till I learned to walk.
01:24:27When I met you, I was so young.
01:24:30I didn't know that it could fall apart.
01:24:32Tell me what do I do?
01:24:35Now I see what we've done.
01:24:38And I know that it's true.
01:24:41You gave me nothing but love.
01:24:45Tell me how long, tell me how long, till we see the pieces that'll break.
01:24:52Tell me how long, tell me how long, tell me how long will it take.
01:24:58Till we wake up, till we wake up.
01:25:04I've been trying, I've been trying, to tell you what's inside my soul.
01:25:23I've been dying, I've been dying.
01:25:27But the ocean changes slow.
01:25:29And it's hard to see it.
01:25:32But I know that it's true.
01:25:35That I gotta be better.
01:25:38So much better to you.
01:25:42Tell me how long, tell me how long, till we see the pieces that'll break.
01:25:49Tell me how long, tell me how long, tell me how long will it take.
01:25:54Till we wake up, till we wake up.
01:26:01Tell me how long, tell me how long, till we wake up.
01:26:09I know we're gonna wake up.
01:26:12I scream in color.
01:26:16Tell me can you hear me through the waves?
01:26:19If we keep on waiting, do we lose the things that we can save?
01:26:25If we hold each other, we don't have to let it slip away.
01:26:32We don't have to let this slip away.
01:26:38Tell me how long, tell me how long, till we see the pieces that'll break.
01:26:45Tell me how long, tell me how long, tell me how long will it take.
01:26:50Till we wake up, till we wake up.
01:26:57Tell me how long, tell me how long, tell me how long, till we wake up.
01:27:04I know we're gonna wake up.
01:27:06I know we're gonna wake up.
01:27:08I know we're gonna wake up.
01:27:14Oh, we're gonna wake up.
01:27:18Oh, we're gonna wake up.
01:27:20Oh, we're gonna wake up.
01:27:27Oh, we're gonna wake up.
01:27:29Tell me how long, tell me how long.
01:27:31Tell me how long, tell me how long, tell me how long, tell me how long will it take.
01:27:40Till we wake up, till we wake up.
01:27:43Tell me how long, tell me how long, tell me how long, till we wake up.
01:27:55Tell me how long, tell me how long, tell me how long, tell me how long, tell me how long.
01:28:08Oh, wake up to the wake up, tell me how long, tell me how long, tell me how long, tell me how long will it take to wake up.
01:28:38Oh, wake up.
01:29:08Oh, wake up.
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