00:04we were all kind of like a bit shocked what Chuck wouldn't be the the right
00:11wording because it's negative we were amazed in a way also well fingers were
00:16trembling that's for sure was a big animal big and bigger than ourselves
00:20which is not that often underwater and we didn't expect this at all
00:35he swam by and then he turned around and faced us and came back and it seemed
00:43clear that he was curious and not aggressive he didn't seem aggressive at
00:47all he was really laid-back like he had the attitude of being the boss down
00:52there and when we started releasing a few bubbles from our mouth which is a very
00:57unusual sound he started speeding up a little bit and vanished into the blue
01:17ghost nets are nets which are lost or abandoned by the fishing industry and
01:23they often get entangled on wrecks artificial structures underwater and
01:28when they get entangled there they tend to fish on because they are made to kill
01:34fish and they still do that when they're not attached to the fishing boat anymore
01:42between one to ten percent of all fishing gear of all fishing vessels in the world
01:49gets lost every given year this might add up to more than half a million ton per year
01:57this is a huge amount and every diver going to any holiday destination
02:02he will encounter some fishing gear
02:24we feel somehow blessed to have this encounter which also shows us the importance of our work
02:30because if a predator like that is hunting close to this wreck that also means that there's a big
02:38amount of fish and a big amount of of things he could hunt there or animals you could hunt there
02:43and if they are trapped there's also a chance we trap some of these predators and if we trap them
02:49there
02:49are only very few around there that would be a big disaster i mean any animal is a disaster but
02:54this
02:54like adds up and adds up so it also feels somehow very well to be on a mission to remove
03:00a net to
03:00make this habitat better for the living of uh fishers again
03:05so
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