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The Earth has five major oceans, but there is one that most sailors avoid at all costs. It is the Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, and it is the most dangerous and inhospitable ocean on the planet. In this video, we'll show you why the Southern Ocean is so terrifying and what challenges and risks it poses to those who dare to venture into it.
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0:01 The new ocean
08:10 Why the border between the 2 oceans is so visible
17:30 What if all oceans dried up?
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:01 The new ocean
08:10 Why the border between the 2 oceans is so visible
17:30 What if all oceans dried up?
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00:00Okay, let's try something together.
00:02Open any world map you have available.
00:05It can be the one you find in your bookcase or even an online version.
00:09Take a look at the vast area covered by water.
00:12That's 71% of the Earth's surface.
00:15And all that is salt water from the world's oceans.
00:18There aren't any borders between the four oceans we've all come to know.
00:22But oceanographers and the world's countries did traditionally split these waters into four distinct regions.
00:29The Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic Oceans.
00:33And here comes the big surprise.
00:35The scientific community has recently recognized the fifth body of water.
00:40It's called the Southern Ocean, and three of the four original oceans border it.
00:45It circumnavigates Antarctica and the lower portion of the globe
00:49and reaches Australia and the southern portions of Africa and South America.
00:53What makes this ocean so special?
00:56How did the scientific community eventually recognize it?
00:59And more importantly, what mysterious creatures does it hide?
01:03Let's find out.
01:06The Antarctic Ocean, or the Southern Ocean, was first mentioned back in 1937
01:11in the second edition of the International Hydrographic Organization's Limits of Oceans and Seas.
01:18That's a mouthful.
01:19Back then, this organization considered that it was wrong to consider the Antarctic Ocean as its own distinct body of
01:26water.
01:27Why?
01:28Well, because at that time, an ocean was defined as water surrounded by land and not water surrounding land.
01:35However, they reconsidered it in 2000 and voted to include this ocean in the official list.
01:41They also decided on the name Southern Ocean over the commonly used Antarctic Ocean.
01:47Finally, the organization concluded that the ocean should be considered as ending at the 60th parallel south latitude.
01:55But how old is this ocean?
01:57Well, many specialists believe it to have formed only 30 million years ago,
02:02which would make it the youngest of the world's oceans.
02:05It was created when Antarctica and South America moved away from each other
02:09during the early stages of our planet's development.
02:12This unique water current is a distinctive component of the Southern Ocean,
02:16as it helps keep the waters flowing around the icy continent.
02:20It's called the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, and it moves to the east with incredible speed.
02:26It's estimated that it moves an enormous amount of water per second.
02:31Some of the disputes regarding the Southern Ocean also have to do with this amazing current.
02:36Some specialists believe it separates the water of the Southern Ocean from the waters of the nearing Atlantic or Pacific.
02:43Only the rapid circulating water is considered the Southern Ocean.
02:48On the other hand, though, a handful of scientists say that the current actually makes the naming issue more complex
02:54by not limiting the waters to a specific geographic location.
02:58They believe that the waters in the current are different in terms of composition from waters in the northern oceans
03:05because they are way colder and have a lot more salt.
03:09Sailors don't really like this new body of water,
03:12mostly because of the frequent cyclone-like storms that it experiences.
03:17They happen because of the big temperature difference between the ice packs and the ocean waves.
03:22As a result, these storms are very difficult to surpass for any sailors that happen to encounter them.
03:28I mean, really, these are the strongest winds found anywhere on our planet.
03:32More so, the vessels going through this area must also be wary of the frequent icebergs that may pop up
03:39every now and then,
03:40and also of the low surface temperatures.
03:42Just to paint you a better picture, some of the icebergs found here can span over several hundred meters
03:48and can exist all year round, regardless of the season.
03:52The latitudes from 50 to 70 have even earned the nicknames of Furious 50s or the Shrieking 60s
03:59because of these intense year-round storms.
04:02Even the landscape is unique.
04:04They say the southern ocean has bluer glaciers, colder air,
04:08and more intimidating mountains than anywhere else in the world.
04:12Now, let's get to the mysterious creatures that call this place home,
04:16as thousands of species of wildlife live only here and nowhere else in the world.
04:22Let's start with the quirky sea pig, or one of the sea cucumbers, as it's sometimes called.
04:27There are a lot of them in the waters off Antarctica.
04:30Why is it called that way, though?
04:32Because of its pink hue and round, bloated looks.
04:36On a closer look, it even appears to have a little tail and set of ears, just like a pig.
04:42They do help a lot with the quality of the waters here, filtering sand and sediment.
04:47Then there are the hof crabs that live on the floor of the Antarctic Sea.
04:52The southern ocean is a cold water environment, but crabs are more adapted to warmer waters.
04:57So, hof crabs gather around the warmth made by volcanic vents.
05:02They get the needed warmth and food here.
05:05You can find them in large piles, one on top of another,
05:08literally filling the space at the vent openings.
05:11Now, wonder how they got their unofficial name?
05:14Well, it's because of their apparent similarity to the actor David Hasselhoff,
05:19whose impressive chest reminded explorers of the crab.
05:23Okay.
05:24Ever seen a fish that's completely transparent?
05:28You'd have to get to these waters down in the south, but they do exist,
05:31and they are simply called the ice fish.
05:34You can basically see inside them, being completely clear and all.
05:38That's because of their see-through skin, and because they don't have any red blood cells.
05:43Their special power is that they can use antifreeze to prevent their bodies from going solid in the cold waters
05:49of the southern ocean.
05:51Instead of the standard, thicker blood, the red one with hemoglobin,
05:55ice fish have thinner blood that moves around more easily throughout their bodies,
05:59hence giving them the much-needed nutrients and oxygen.
06:03Now, is there a monster hidden in these waters?
06:06Some people believe this to be the case.
06:08And, thanks to recent research, we even have video footage of it.
06:13Some Australian researchers stumbled upon a bunch of weird-looking creatures
06:17that were swimming near the seafloor of the southern ocean.
06:21This pink blob-like fish seemed to be propelled by a little pair of fins.
06:26To quote them on it, it seemed to resemble a chicken just before you put it in the oven.
06:31I'm not sure I even want to know what that looks like.
06:34It took them some time and research to identify the monster.
06:38It's a shy species of sea cucumber, known more by its, uh, creative nickname,
06:44the headless chicken monster.
06:46We've known this creature has existed since the late 1800s,
06:50but we've barely ever seen it.
06:51And we've only ever captured it on tape once before when it was spotted in the Gulf of Mexico,
06:57which is quite far from the waters off the coast of East Antarctica.
07:02There's so much we don't know about this creature,
07:05like how many of them exist in our waters and how they live, eat, and reproduce.
07:10Ever heard of the emperor penguin?
07:13It's not a penguin species that just happens to have a crown on its head,
07:16if that's what you're thinking.
07:17But they are one of those penguins that inhabit this specific location
07:22and are also the largest species of their kind altogether.
07:26What makes them special is that they make their colonies on the sea ice,
07:30and most of them never step foot on land.
07:33More so, penguin dads lose almost half their weight while incubating the eggs.
07:38They're also fascinating swimmers,
07:41able to dive deeper and longer than any other bird, up to 700 feet.
07:46Not to mention, they can stay submerged for up to 18 minutes at a time as they gather food.
07:52We have yet to uncover all the secrets of the mysterious Southern Ocean,
07:56but it's clear that it's home to some unique and fragile marine ecosystems.
08:01Recognizing it as a new ocean could be one way to focus the public attention on it
08:06and help its conservation.
08:09When you look at the seas and oceans on a map,
08:12you might think that they just flow into each other.
08:15Like, there's really only one big ocean,
08:17and people just arbitrarily gave different names to its different parts.
08:22Well, guess what?
08:24You'll be amazed at how much more substantial
08:26the borders between them actually are.
08:29For example, the border between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
08:33is like a literal line between two different worlds.
08:37It looks like the two oceans meet at an invisible wall,
08:39which does not let them flow into each other and mix their waters.
08:43Why on Earth does that happen?
08:46Obviously, there's no actual invisible wall inside,
08:49and water is just water.
08:51So what could be interfering with its mixing?
08:53Well, the thing is that water isn't just water.
08:58There can be different kinds.
08:59The Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans have different densities and chemical outcomes,
09:04the level of salinity and other qualities.
09:07One can see by their color that they are far from the same.
09:12Borders like this, between two bodies of water
09:14with different physical and biological characteristics,
09:16are known as hallow clouds.
09:19Jacques-Yves Cousteau discovered one of them
09:21while he was deep diving in the Strait of Gibraltar.
09:25The layers of water with different solidity
09:27look like they were divided with a transparent film,
09:30and each layer had its own distinct flora and fodder.
09:34Halloclines appear when water in one ocean or sea
09:37is at least five times saltier than in the other.
09:40You can create a hallowcline at home
09:41if you pour some seawater or colored salty water in a glass
09:46and then add some fresh water on top of it.
09:48The only difference is that your hallowcline will be horizontal
09:51and ocean hallowclines are vertical.
09:55For those of you who were paying attention in chemistry class,
09:58you might remember that if you have two liquids
10:01with different densities in one space,
10:03the denser liquid should eventually end up below the less dense one.
10:07By that logic, the border between the two oceans
10:10should look not like a vertical line but a horizontal one,
10:13and the difference between their solidity
10:15would become less obvious the closer they got to each other.
10:20So why doesn't it work like that?
10:23Firstly, the difference in density of the two oceans
10:25is not big enough for one of them to sink down
10:27and the other one to rise up,
10:29but it is big enough to not let them mix.
10:32Another reason is inertia.
10:33There is an inertial force known as the Coriolis force,
10:37which influences objects when they are moving in a system of axes,
10:40which in turn are moving as well.
10:42In simpler terms, the Earth is moving,
10:45and all the moving objects on it are carried along,
10:48acted upon by this Coriolis force,
10:51deviating slightly from their natural course.
10:54As a result, the objects on the Earth's surface
10:56don't move straight on, but deviate in a curve,
11:00clockwise in the northern hemisphere
11:01and counterclockwise in the southern.
11:04But because the Earth is moving slowly,
11:06after all, it does take the planet a whole day
11:09to make a full circle around its axis,
11:11the Coriolis effect isn't easy to observe in the short term.
11:14It becomes easier to notice only in long-term intervals,
11:18like with cyclones or ocean flows.
11:21And this is why the direction of flows in the Atlantic
11:23and the Pacific oceans is different.
11:25This difference also doesn't let them mix.
11:28Another important difference between these two ocean waters
11:31is the strength of molecule connection,
11:33or surface tensile strength.
11:36Thanks to this strength,
11:37molecules of the same kind hold on to each other.
11:40The two oceans have totally different surface tensile strengths,
11:43which also doesn't let them mix.
11:45Maybe if the waters were completely still,
11:48they could gradually start mixing over time.
11:50But as they flow in opposite directions,
11:53they just don't have time to do this.
11:55We think that it's just water in both oceans,
11:57but its separate molecules meet for just a very short moment
12:00and then get carried away with the ocean flow.
12:03But if you think that it's only the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
12:06that don't get along with each other,
12:08you are sorely mistaken.
12:10There's lots of places on the planet
12:12where the waters of the two seas or rivers don't mix,
12:15and for even more weird reasons.
12:17For example,
12:18there's a different kind of border called a thermocline.
12:21These are borders between waters of different temperatures,
12:25like between the warm water of the Gulf Stream
12:27and the much colder North Atlantic Ocean.
12:30But the most interesting kinds are called chemoclines.
12:34These are borders between waters
12:36having different microclimate and chemical makeup.
12:39The Sargasso Sea
12:40is the biggest and most widely known chemocline.
12:43It is a sea within the Atlantic Ocean,
12:46which has no shores,
12:47but is very obviously distinct.
12:50You can't not notice it.
12:52Let's now take a look
12:53at some other spectacular clines we have on planet Earth.
12:57And just as a heads up,
12:58I might mispronounce some of these names coming up,
13:01so please forgive me.
13:03First up, we have the North and Baltic Seas.
13:06These two seas meet near the Danish city of Skagen.
13:09The water in them doesn't mix
13:11because of different densities.
13:13Sometimes you can see the waves of the two seas
13:15clash into each other, making foam.
13:18Their waters do mix very, very gradually.
13:21That's why the Baltic Sea is slightly salient.
13:24If there had been no water coming to it from the North Sea,
13:27it would have just been a freshwater lake.
13:30Next up, the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
13:33They meet at the Strait of Gibraltar
13:35and have both a different density and solidity.
13:38So there's two reasons their waters don't mix.
13:40Then we have the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.
13:44The place where they meet is near the Antilles,
13:46and it's very easy to spot.
13:48It looks like someone has painted water
13:50with two different shades of blue.
13:53Another place where these two meet
13:55is Eleuthera Island of the Bahamas.
13:58The Caribbean Sea water is turquoise,
14:00and the Atlantic Ocean water is dark blue.
14:03There is also the Suriname River and the Atlantic Ocean,
14:06which meet near Paramarra Bay in South America.
14:09How about the Uruguay River and its aflux?
14:13These two meet in Missiones province in Argentina.
14:16One of them is claimed to be used in agriculture,
14:19and the other has an almost red tint to it
14:22because of loam during rainy seasons.
14:24Here's an interesting one.
14:26The Rio Negro and the Solimoes Rivers,
14:29part of the Amazon River.
14:30Six miles from Manaus in Brazil,
14:33the Rio Negro and Solimoes Rivers
14:34flow into each other,
14:36but don't mix for about 2.5 miles.
14:40The Rio Negro is dark,
14:42and the Solimoes is light.
14:43They have different temperatures and speeds of flow.
14:46Then there's the Moselle and Rhine Rivers,
14:48which meet in Koblenz, Germany.
14:51The water in the Rhine is lighter
14:52than that of the Moselle.
14:54Okay, how about three different bodies,
14:58like the Iles, Danube, and Inn Rivers?
15:01The junction of these three rivers is in Passau, Germany.
15:04The Iles is a small mountain river to the left,
15:08the Danube is in the middle,
15:09and the Inn is a light river to the right.
15:12The Inn is wider than the Danube here,
15:14but it's still its aflux.
15:16Take a look at the Alaknanda and Bagirati Rivers,
15:20which meet in India.
15:22Alaknanda is dark,
15:23and Bagirati is light.
15:25I really hope I got those right.
15:27The Irtish and Ulba Rivers
15:29flow into each other in Kazakhstan,
15:31near the city whose name is Ust-Kamenagorsk.
15:35The Irtish has clean water,
15:37and the Ulba's water is cloudy.
15:40Moving further east,
15:41the Jialing and Yangtze Rivers
15:43meet in Chongqing, China.
15:45I really hope that's close at least.
15:48The Jialing is clean,
15:49and the Yangtze is brown.
15:51The Irtish River actually has another intersection
15:53with the Alm River.
15:55These two rivers flow into each other in Omsk, Russia.
15:58Here, the Irtish is cloudy,
16:00and the Alm is pure and transparent.
16:03Speaking of Russia,
16:04the Chuya and Katun Rivers
16:06meet in the Altai Republic.
16:08The water of the Chuya
16:09has an unusual cloudy white color here,
16:11and looks dense and thick.
16:13The Katun, by contrast,
16:15is clean and turquoise.
16:17Flowing into each other,
16:18they form a single two-colored stream
16:20that does not mix for some time.
16:22On the other side of the globe,
16:24we have the Green and Colorado Rivers.
16:27The place of their junction
16:28is National Park Canyonlands
16:30in Utah, USA.
16:31The Colorado River is brown,
16:33and the Green is, well, green.
16:36The corridors of these rivers
16:37go through rocks with different chemical makeup.
16:40That's why they have such a big contrast of colors.
16:43Last, but not least,
16:45we have the RhĂ´ne and Arve Rivers.
16:48They flow into each other
16:49in Geneva, Switzerland.
16:51The RhĂ´ne is a pure river
16:52that flows out from the lakes of Geneva,
16:55while the Arve is cloudy
16:57and gets its water
16:58from the glaciers
16:58of the Chamonix Valley.
17:00This is by no means
17:02an exhaustive list
17:03of all the strange climes
17:04in our beautiful planet,
17:05but as you can see,
17:06it happens a lot more often
17:08than you think.
17:08These are the kinds
17:09of environmental oddities
17:10that can really teach you
17:12about the way
17:12the natural world works,
17:14if you're curious enough, of course.
17:16Thanks for watching.
17:18Oh, and let me know
17:19how well I did
17:20with the pronunciations.
17:21Constructive feedback
17:22is always helpful.
17:26A wanderer walking through a desert
17:28feels the scorching sun
17:30like never before.
17:32You can see him from afar
17:33thanks to his shining clothes.
17:35His long hoodie
17:36is covered with foil.
17:38It reflects sunlight
17:39and protects him from heat.
17:41The ground is so hot
17:42that shoe soles can melt on it.
17:44That's why the wanderer's boots
17:46are covered with
17:47heat-resistant material.
17:49A cloudless sky,
17:51barren land,
17:52and heat.
17:53But the wanderer
17:54is not in the desert.
17:55He's walking
17:56on the ocean's bottom.
17:57He doesn't know
17:58why this happened,
17:59but all the oceans
18:00on Earth dried up.
18:02It happened almost instantly,
18:04and even the greatest minds
18:05in the world
18:06don't know why.
18:07The wanderer knows
18:08only one thing.
18:09When it happened,
18:10his family was on
18:11the other side of the ocean
18:13for several months.
18:14He's been traveling
18:15across this lifeless land,
18:17and he won't stop
18:18until he finds his family.
18:20The landscape around
18:22is spectacular.
18:23People have finally found out
18:25the secrets
18:25of the ocean depths.
18:26The seabed consists
18:28of huge mountain ranges
18:29and volcanoes.
18:31They fell asleep forever
18:32after the water
18:33had disappeared.
18:34Also,
18:35there are huge trenches
18:37leading to the unexplored
18:38depths of the planet.
18:39People had to build bridges
18:41to get over
18:42these enormous cracks
18:43in the ground.
18:44But most of the ocean floor
18:46is flat plains.
18:48Boundless.
18:49Lifeless.
18:50Merciless.
18:51The wanderer's walking
18:53across a huge canyon.
18:54Once,
18:55it was swarming
18:56with sea life.
18:57The man puts on
18:58a gas mask,
18:59but not because
18:59of a sandstorm.
19:01Many fish
19:01and other marine inhabitants
19:03used to live
19:03in such canyons.
19:04Now,
19:05all that's left
19:06is a terrible smell.
19:07The wanderer
19:08passes by
19:09huge skeletons
19:10of whales.
19:11Among them,
19:12he notices
19:13dirty tents.
19:14People are hiding
19:15there from heat.
19:16The temperature
19:17in the area
19:18is much higher
19:19than in the Sahara Desert.
19:21One of the main
19:22functions of the ocean
19:23was to distribute
19:24heat all over the planet.
19:25The sun emits
19:26heat and radiation.
19:28The ocean
19:28absorbed this energy.
19:30Lots of currents
19:31were warm,
19:31and they carried
19:32this warmth
19:33around the world.
19:34The water got heated
19:35at the equator,
19:36then it evaporated
19:37and turned
19:38into clouds.
19:39When warm air rose,
19:41it pulled along
19:41colder air
19:42from below.
19:43This allowed the energy
19:44to be evenly distributed.
19:46In simple words,
19:47the ocean cooled
19:48hot places
19:49and brought warmth
19:50to cold ones.
19:51Now,
19:52there's none of this.
19:53Every day,
19:53the sun burns
19:54the equator
19:55and dries up
19:56the rest of the planet.
19:57The wanderer
19:58doesn't come close
19:59to the tents.
19:59He is carrying
20:00the most valuable
20:01treasure in the world
20:02and doesn't want
20:03people to notice him.
20:04The inhabitants
20:05of Earth
20:06are just trying
20:06to survive,
20:07and many have forgotten
20:08about such a thing
20:09as morality.
20:10Fortunately,
20:11the wanderer
20:12still remembers.
20:13The thoughts
20:14of the family
20:15help him remain
20:16a good person.
20:17Sometimes,
20:17it complicates
20:18his life.
20:19Like now,
20:20for example,
20:21in the distance,
20:22he sees a young girl.
20:23She doesn't look well.
20:24There's no one around,
20:26and the wanderer
20:27decides to help her.
20:28Out of his backpack,
20:30he pulls a thing
20:30worth more than
20:31all the gold
20:32on the planet,
20:33a bottle of water.
20:34The girl takes
20:35a few sips,
20:36but instead of thanking
20:37the wanderer,
20:38she starts screaming.
20:40It's a trap!
20:41Her accomplices
20:42appear from different
20:42sides.
20:43Looters.
20:44They're gonna take
20:45everything.
20:46The wanderer runs away.
20:48He hasn't eaten
20:48for several days,
20:49and his strength
20:50is leaving him.
20:52He won't be able
20:53to keep going
20:53much longer.
20:54The marauders
20:55are closing in on him.
20:56The wanderer
20:57throws the bottle aside.
20:58His pursuers
20:59rush to the water
21:00like crazy.
21:01They forget about
21:02the mane
21:02and fight one another
21:03for the bottle.
21:05The chances of
21:06the wanderer's survival
21:07have greatly decreased.
21:08He could make
21:09this bottle last
21:10at least several days.
21:11Plus,
21:12he's also lost
21:13a lot of fluid
21:14because of running.
21:15In the beginning,
21:16there was no panic
21:17because of a lack
21:18of water.
21:18The ocean dried up,
21:19but its waters
21:20were salty anyway.
21:21People still had
21:22seas,
21:23lakes,
21:24and rivers.
21:25But the problem
21:25was that the ocean
21:27was feeding them.
21:28When the ocean
21:29water evaporated,
21:30it formed clouds.
21:32These clouds
21:32moved all over
21:33the world
21:33and enriched lakes
21:35and rivers with rain.
21:36Now,
21:37there are almost
21:38no clouds.
21:39The sun started
21:40heating earth
21:41much more.
21:42Lakes and seas
21:43dried up alarmingly
21:44quickly.
21:45At that moment,
21:46real chaos began.
21:47The sun is going
21:48down on the horizon.
21:50Sunset is near.
21:51It's not so hot
21:52anymore.
21:53The exhausted
21:53wanderer continues
21:54walking.
21:55In the distance,
21:56he notices something
21:57that makes him stop.
21:58Take out a small
22:00shovel and start
22:01digging quickly.
22:02There's no shelter
22:03around,
22:04just a flat plain.
22:05The wanderer speeds up,
22:07otherwise,
22:08it might be too late.
22:09The pit is finally
22:11ready.
22:12The man jumps down
22:13and covers his head
22:14with a cloak.
22:14A few seconds later,
22:16a strong ash storm
22:17passes through
22:18the entire plain.
22:19The smallest particles
22:21of ash can penetrate
22:22through clothes
22:23and get into the lungs.
22:24The wind is so strong
22:26that it can knock
22:27anyone down.
22:27When the oceans
22:28dried up,
22:29the sun began
22:30to burn the surface
22:31of the planet.
22:32This led to massive
22:33forest fires.
22:34The flames destroyed
22:36almost all the trees.
22:37Huge clouds
22:39of carbon dioxide
22:40and ash formed.
22:42Driven by the wind,
22:43they travel the world
22:44and poison everything
22:45around.
22:46The wanderer is sitting
22:47in the pit
22:48while a terrible hurricane
22:50is sweeping over his head.
22:51He thinks of his family
22:53and slowly falls asleep.
22:55Cold wakes him up.
22:57Frosty air chills him
22:58to the bone.
22:59So it's night now.
23:01The wanderer climbs out
23:02of the pit
23:03and finds himself
23:04under bright stars.
23:05As soon as the water
23:07dried up,
23:07almost all clouds
23:08disappeared.
23:09Factories stopped working.
23:11Cars no longer
23:12emitted carbon dioxide.
23:14Thanks to this,
23:15comets in the most
23:16distant stars
23:17can be seen
23:17in the sky.
23:18The wanderer
23:19has seen them
23:20a thousand times,
23:21but he's still not used
23:22to the breathtaking picture.
23:24It's like he's looking
23:25at the sky
23:26through a telescope.
23:27An icy gust of wind
23:29brings the wanderer
23:31back to reality.
23:32He won't survive the night
23:33if he doesn't find
23:34a warmer place.
23:35Before,
23:36nights were warmer
23:37thanks to the energy
23:38of the ocean.
23:39Now,
23:40as soon as the sun
23:41goes down,
23:42temperatures drop
23:43dramatically.
23:44The wanderer
23:45needs to move
23:46to stay warm.
23:47He starts walking
23:48faster.
23:49Soon,
23:50he notices
23:50some lights
23:51in the distance.
23:52It's probably
23:53other looters.
23:54The wanderer
23:55goes deeper
23:55into the valley.
23:57Stars and the moon
23:58illuminate his way.
23:59Unfortunately,
24:00he is running
24:01out of energy.
24:02He pulls a protein
24:03bar out of his pocket,
24:04but he needs
24:05at least a bit
24:06of water to eat it.
24:07To digest food,
24:08your body needs liquid.
24:10If the wanderer
24:11eats the bar,
24:12he'll only get thirstier.
24:14He can't walk
24:15and falls to the ground.
24:16He checks his pockets
24:18and finds a small
24:19kerosene tablet.
24:21He lights it
24:22using a match stick.
24:23A tiny flame
24:24protects him from cold.
24:26To distract himself
24:27from thirst,
24:28the wanderer
24:28takes out
24:29an old MP3 player.
24:30He charged it
24:31during the day
24:32using the solar panels
24:33on his backpack.
24:34The man puts on
24:35headphones.
24:36Classical music
24:37calms him down.
24:38He lies on the ground
24:39next to the burning
24:40tablet.
24:41He needs to gain strength
24:42to continue his journey
24:43tomorrow.
24:47It's morning.
24:48In an hour,
24:49the sun will start
24:50burning the ground again.
24:51It's crucial to find water
24:52while he still
24:53has some time left.
24:54The wanderer inspects
24:56the territory
24:56and notices a spot
24:58where the ground
24:58is darker.
25:00In his previous life,
25:01the wanderer worked
25:02as a surveyor.
25:03He takes a few steps
25:04and touches the ground.
25:05It feels cool.
25:07There's an underground
25:08spring here.
25:09He begins to dig.
25:10The ground is getting wet.
25:12Water starts seeping
25:13out of the soil.
25:14The wanderer fills
25:15his empty bottles.
25:17Things don't look
25:17that bad anymore.
25:19It's getting a bit
25:20more difficult to breathe
25:21with each new day.
25:22In the past,
25:24phytoplankton
25:24and algae
25:25produced up to 70%
25:27of all the oxygen
25:28on the planet.
25:29But not anymore.
25:31Several days have passed.
25:32The wanderer runs out
25:34of water and food again.
25:35Fortunately,
25:36not for long.
25:37He's now walking
25:38among huge sunken ships.
25:40He sees modern
25:41aircraft carriers,
25:43liners,
25:43and even ancient
25:44pirate boats.
25:46In the distance,
25:47he spots huge mountains.
25:49The tops of these rocks
25:50are what used to be called
25:51the shore.
25:52The ocean floor
25:53is ending.
25:54The thoughts about
25:55reuniting with his family
25:56give him more strength.
25:58The man reaches the top
25:59and finds himself
26:00in the middle
26:01of a ruined city.
26:02It's empty.
26:03Where have all
26:04the people gone?
26:05Where is my family now?
26:07The wanderer asks himself.
26:09The man walks
26:10through the abandoned streets
26:11and meets an old man.
26:13He says that almost
26:14all the people
26:15he used to live here
26:16left the city
26:17and went to Antarctica.
26:18The wanderer
26:19has a new goal.
26:21He's going to get
26:22to the icy mainland
26:23no matter what.
26:24He will
26:25find his family.
26:33He's going to get
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