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Vast, wild, yet extremely fragile. The coldest place on our planet is also one of the most affected by global warming and needs to be protected. The expedition focuses on exploring, documenting, and surfing in the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula, in the area known as Domain 1, which is being pushed for Marine Protected Area (MPA) status. Protected areas are very important for mitigating climate change and, in this case, also for regulating human activities such as concentrated fishing. This film helps us understand the importance of this area and the threats affecting it.
Transcript
00:03Antarctica belongs to all of us. Its future and its inhabitants are in our
00:08hands. And that's why all of us are responsible for what happens to it.
00:20First time for you in a sailing boat? Yeah, my first time. We started this
00:26journey to Antarctica to help Domain One become a marine protected area and to
00:32surf the southernmost waves of the planet.
00:39We are going to be exposed to one of the most hostile climates on the planet. We
00:45don't know what we are going to encounter. They're big. They have a lot, a lot of
00:52teeth, big teeth. So they can be very intimidating and of course you're on your
00:57surfboard and you cannot see them on the water.
01:04And if something goes wrong, no one will be able to help us there.
01:10What worries me most is if my brother will survive the trip. Joaquin has not eaten for two days.
01:28We are able to see how the sea ice thaws and glaciers collabs.
01:41They have to come. Russia and China have to come because it's a
01:47great deal. The whole fauna depends on Antarctica. This is a historic moment in
02:02world history to create marine protected areas in Antarctica.
02:29even though we don't want to see a look at the
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