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00:00Our world is undergoing profound change.
00:04Science and technology are transforming our lives with dizzying speed.
00:10Astonishing innovations are ushering in a new era of opportunity.
00:16The high-tech revolution is fueling creativity around the globe,
00:21inspiring visionary solutions.
00:25So open your eyes and get ready for an amazing journey to 2050,
00:31to dream the future.
01:16From the dawn of time, the oceans have fascinated us.
01:24They conceal countless treasures and contain the most abundant biodiversity in the world.
01:35This is the heart of the Earth's climate system and biodiversity.
01:39It's not just the heart, it's probably the heart and the veins and all of the circulation system.
01:49Without the oceans, we could not survive.
01:52And now is the time when we must find a way to protect the oceans.
02:01We have a huge influence on the sea, and that influence is mainly negative.
02:06Gigantic as the sea is, these influences were only revealed gradually,
02:11but now we're seeing everything increase quickly.
02:16Our oceans are heating up, they're polluted, and species are fast disappearing.
02:25So, what will they look like tomorrow?
02:28Will we learn how to preserve their precious resources?
02:33Allowing them to sustain us?
02:40For each problem, we have 10, 20 solutions.
02:44What we really need is willpower, vision and courage.
02:52For me, building a bridge towards the abyss is a key factor in humanity's survival.
02:59The ultimate goal, I hope, is that we have healthy and good reefs.
03:03And the quicker decisions we can make, the better.
03:07Aquaculture is a real game changer, because fish has to come from somewhere,
03:11and it's not coming from the oceans anymore.
03:16We've now got the technology that can give people information in an incredibly engaging way.
03:24Ideally, we would want to take every single kid on a virtual dive.
03:30Aristotle said there are three kinds of men.
03:33Those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea.
03:40More than 25,000 years ago, the first seafaring peoples ventured onto the Pacific.
03:48In the 4th century BC, Alexander the Great explored in a barrel filled with air.
03:57On the surface, the Vikings crossed the ocean to Greenland.
04:03Then the great expeditions opened new horizons.
04:08In Italy, the diving bell allowed an underwater stay of one hour.
04:15In 1620, a forerunner of the submarine was tested.
04:21By the 18th century, real oceanographic expeditions were organized.
04:26James Cook left England to discover the immensity of the Pacific.
04:34The ocean became an object of scientific research.
04:39Ships crisscrossed the seas, collecting all manner of marine specimens.
04:45The 20th century brought underwater exploration.
04:50In 1925, the German ship Meteor produced the first map of the ocean floor.
04:58Soon, bioluminescent creatures were discovered at a depth of 3,000 feet.
05:06The sea had become humanity's next frontier.
05:11In 1960, explorer Jacques Piccard and his submersible descended to 35,000 feet, the greatest depth ever reached by man.
05:25Whenever man goes exploring, the ocean has a surprise in store.
05:34What magic spell would it take for us to live freely, under the sea, forever?
05:45I imagine people could go for a walk underwater much as they do in the woods.
05:49It would be a kind of combination of apnea and scuba diving, keeping the simplicity of apnea and bringing the
05:56freedom and that infinite time you could have underwater.
06:09It's absolutely fascinating to think that tens or hundreds of meters from the edge, there's a real unknown where nobody
06:17goes.
06:18It's a mysterious source of attraction. We have a strong bond with water.
06:28In 2050, will we all be sea people?
06:36Explorers already visit the undersea world.
06:40Tomorrow, everyone may dive deep.
06:44Will we take our submarine, much as we take our car, to tour the oceans?
06:54We use the armor of technology to go beyond our design specifications.
07:02And I believe the move into the ocean, whether for exploration or perhaps for habitation,
07:09is the first wave of continuation of this desire, this ability, this mindset to go outside of where we were
07:20born to be.
07:22From 20,000 leagues under the sea, to visions of a futuristic sea station, and experiments conducted by Jacques Cousteau,
07:33living under the sea is an old dream.
07:40I think you will find this interesting.
07:43An underwater city.
07:46Fascinating, isn't it?
07:47The only hope for the future of mankind.
07:51We all have our dreams.
07:52No dream, Mr. Sterling.
07:55Soon a reality.
08:00We must go and understand what is going on in the deep ocean.
08:08We will have colonies, to start with, under the sea, very much like the idea of the Mars colony.
08:16And in my stranger moments, I think of a young boy sitting on his father's knee and looking his father
08:25in the eye and saying,
08:26Father, is it true that there used to be people up there?
08:34Underwater homes unleash our imagination.
08:39The cities of 2050 could be offshore, or under the depths.
08:53A team of Japanese architects plans to ensure mankind's survival by building an underwater city by 2030.
09:04Their project, Ocean Spiral, relies on the resources of the deep ocean.
09:14My name is Masaki Takeuchi.
09:17I'm 58 years old.
09:25When the population reaches 10 billion inhabitants, it won't just be a question of space.
09:31We would have to think in terms of supplies of energy, water, and food.
09:37I think the ocean could easily provide all that.
09:44At the top, a floating sphere, 1600 feet in diameter, accommodates thousands of people.
09:53This area includes hotels, offices, and apartments.
10:02It's a sphere, so there's no need to run electric ventilation.
10:08Thanks to the ocean's temperature, a descending cold air current is created along the wall.
10:15In the center, heat from the dwellings generates an ascending current.
10:20So the air circulates perfectly.
10:23And as part of the structure sticks out of the water, the air can be renewed regularly.
10:34We will be able to recreate the cycle of days and seasons, thanks to computer-controlled temperature, air, and light.
10:44It will create a better environment for the inhabitants.
10:54After two years of simulations, the colossal $20 billion project is itching to leave the drawing board.
11:06It's a huge challenge to make plexiglass panels capable of withstanding the enormous pressure.
11:14So they enlisted Nippura, world leader in giant aquariums.
11:23My name is Yasuhiro Shikiyama, and I'm 55.
11:46I'm 55.
11:48Mr. Takeuchi came to see me with a special request.
11:54He wanted transparent windows three meters thick.
11:59Until now, the thickest panels we'd produced for aquariums were 75 centimeters thick.
12:07There, the final thickness was more than three times that.
12:18We developed expertise that allowed us to avoid casting a single block and to stick thinner panels together to obtain
12:26the required thickness.
12:34During the bonding, they tried to minimize the distortions to keep the block as homogenous as possible.
12:43It is also treated to increase resistance and remain transparent for several decades.
12:59Under the sphere, a long spiral twists down to the ocean floor.
13:04It will strengthen the structure and transport people, electricity, materials, and water.
13:13Smaller spheres will house power stations.
13:15They harvest energy created by the temperature difference between, for example, extracting mineral resources or using bacteria to absorb CO2.
13:29And all this in a reasoned, sustainable way.
13:37The abysses are the final frontier on our planet.
13:42Rich but fragile, this environment is less understood than the surface of the moon.
13:52But its raw materials and energy resources are full of promise.
14:01From the sediment samples they've collected, oceanographers are particularly interested in the billion microorganisms living in the seabed.
14:12Capable of turning CO2 into methane, these microbes could capture some of the carbon we emit and supplies with a
14:22new source of energy.
14:28To me, the ocean spiral project is not just a technological challenge.
14:34It is also the way to a vision of a new, environmentally friendly lifestyle.
14:41And the invention of an entire economic system that goes with it.
14:50To build this new system, the ocean offers us immense resources, a wonderful reservoir of blue energy.
15:01Seaweed helps us make new biofuels.
15:05And we're innovating to maximize energy from the wind, the currents, and the waves.
15:14Thanks to marine renewables, we could drastically reduce our CO2 emissions and realize the dream of a blue society.
15:28Nowadays, thankfully, though it hasn't been the case for long,
15:32investment in renewable energies far outstrips investment in fossil fuels.
15:38Here we have a new industrial model.
15:40The political world is starting to understand this, as is the economic world.
15:46If they come to an agreement, then it will happen.
15:53Deepening our connection to the sea means protecting marine ecosystems now.
15:59Coral reefs are especially sensitive to environmental disturbance.
16:09These tiny animals are the greatest builders in the world, creating massive living structures.
16:16Colored cities, oases of life that shelter 30% of marine biodiversity.
16:25They serve as nurseries, larders, and shelters.
16:33And that's not all.
16:35By breaking the waves, these reefs protect the coast from erosion.
16:42But today, fishing, tourism, and the rise in ocean temperature are killing coral reefs at an alarming rate.
16:54If we do nothing, another 25% will be threatened by 2050.
17:05We must evaluate their health, and fast.
17:11On Curacao, in the Caribbean, that's the aim of two researchers.
17:17They're testing an instrument that analyzes the state of the reefs.
17:28It's a unique ecosystem, which we don't know so much about yet.
17:33We're constantly finding out new things.
17:39My name is Joosten Haan. I'm 33 years old.
17:43My ultimate dream is that we are able to successfully protect coral reefs.
18:01There's a lot of stake protecting coral reefs.
18:04And one way to look at it is doing surveys.
18:07And this is a very time-consuming process.
18:10Because you cannot dive forever.
18:14And afterwards, you have to go look through all your pictures, through your film material, through all the notes that
18:19you took.
18:20And so it can take hours and hours of just trying to find out how healthy is your reef.
18:26But with climate change, time is not on our side.
18:30To speed observations, a new tool combines AI and real-time imaging, allowing analysis of the entire reef.
18:40They call it the hyperdiver.
18:47The ultimate goal, I hope, is that we have healthy and good reefs.
18:51This is a tool to perhaps make that faster, and the quicker decisions we can make, the better.
18:59I am Arjun Chenu. I am 31 years old.
19:02I believe that we all deserve and can have healthy oceans if we get together and work on it.
19:17The human eye is sensitive to light in only three small bands.
19:21And this is a band that corresponds to red color and green color and blue color, right?
19:26And therefore, our normal cameras that we use only pick up those three colors and throws everything away, all the
19:32other data.
19:33So, if you ask yourself, how can we do better?
19:37The answer is quite simple, which is don't throw the light information away.
19:42And for that, we built the hyperdiver.
19:47This camera can take pictures in all wavelengths of the visible spectrum, plus infrared and ultraviolet.
19:58It precisely measures the light signatures of the elements that make up the reef.
20:05To be fair to the hyperdiver, it is not just a camera.
20:09It's a floating observatory.
20:11We're measuring light intensity.
20:13I have a little way of understanding the altitude of the hyperdiver from the bottom.
20:18And I have a depth sensor on there.
20:20And using this, we can identify precisely where we are relative to the reef bottom.
20:25And therefore, map the bottom of the reef and find the topographic profile.
20:29And depending on the setting, we also include chemical sensors to measure the oxygen level, the pH, and capture all
20:36that data at one go.
20:38So that you get a comprehensive view of the reef, an ecological snapshot as we swim along.
20:49So that's a nine-meter line.
20:51Okay.
20:52And we're going along it.
20:54So this should be the line starting here.
20:57Back on the surface, the hyperdiver's digital brain reveals its extraordinary potential.
21:04Oh, this big patch here.
21:06What's that?
21:07Just stop it here for a second and we can take a close look at it.
21:11So this is a coral called madrasis.
21:15The hyperdiver doesn't know it so well yet.
21:18Right, so I'll mark this patch here.
21:21The hyperdiver is built on a machine learning technique.
21:25After we've done a survey, we compare our scan that we made with a high-definition video.
21:32And when I, for example, see an organism that it does not yet know, we have to teach it that.
21:37Because you have to see it as a brain, as a young child, basically.
21:41So these two correspond with one another.
21:43Look at the spectrum of this coral we picked out.
21:46It's got a massive absorption and the spectra just drops down here.
21:49It looks to have a lot of pigment.
21:51Yeah.
21:51So I guess it's doing pretty well.
21:53Quite healthy.
21:54Yeah.
21:55Okay, so I'll mark this for training.
21:56Yes.
22:04We're essentially creating a little teaching library so that we can train a computer program
22:11to then learn all of that knowledge that we've taken from multiple human experts
22:17condensed into a library of knowledge which basically identifies reef organisms versus spectra.
22:22And now the smart thing is that when we tell it what it is, and we tell it more often
22:27what it is,
22:27it actually gets very, very good at recognizing this coral.
22:31So the more often we feed it information, the smarter it actually gets, the more universal it gets.
22:39Then this program can turn around and say, now I would like to try to identify a reef.
22:43And then you can give him images that you have not analyzed, you have not touched,
22:47and it will automatically analyze that image and give you information and very, very rich information.
22:57Tomorrow, the hyper diver will analyze the world's reefs and create a massive database.
23:05We'll compare that data to fresh measurements of our reefs and oceans, zone by zone.
23:16This will allow us to react quickly to manage resources and preserve species.
23:25I think the biggest challenge is to understand that it's okay to have a complex story.
23:31We try and oversimplify everything and therefore we either jump to immediate and extreme optimism
23:39or then just sustained pessimism, whereas what we need is a more nuanced response.
23:47The oceans evolve over these very slow timescales, thousands of years,
23:51but we're hitting the system right now with a change in forcing that is absolutely abrupt and sudden and profound.
23:59In terms of turning this all around and changing the trajectory we're on,
24:03there's really only one way to do this effectively and that is to stop our emissions of carbon dioxide.
24:11Today, each human consumes an average of 45 pounds of fish per year.
24:18For one person in six, it's the sole source of animal protein.
24:24Fishing is a colossal industry, exploiting and exhausting finite resources.
24:30In 50 years, fish stocks have halved.
24:38Long-line fishing vessels deploy 1.4 billion hooks a year.
24:431.4 billion hooks, each with a slice of fish hanging from them as bait.
24:52There are trawling vessels that cast nets with an opening of up to 23,000 meters squared.
25:00The size of four football pitches, and big enough to hold 13 jumbo jets, or more commonly, more than 500
25:10tons of fish.
25:12If this continues, soon there will be no fish left.
25:19We can take as many resources as we like from anywhere using military technology to catch fish.
25:26They can't hide. The war's over.
25:35We must return to setting limits.
25:39We had agreements not to fish half the oceans, for example, 30 years ago.
25:43And we fished more then than now.
25:46Isn't it worth returning to a state where we fished more?
25:55To return to that state, quotas and fishing zones must be respected.
26:03Eradicate illegal fishing and restore order on the high seas.
26:08That's the dream of the Eyes on the Sea project.
26:1423 million tons of fish will be caught each year.
26:18And these are the figures associated with what may be illegal, which is one in five fish.
26:25My name's Tony Long. I work for the Pew Charitable Trust and direct their campaign to end illegal fishing.
26:33The idea is that we can get information to every port official anywhere in the world,
26:37with the right level of credibility that they can understand why are fishing vessels entering their port and where it
26:44fished.
26:45It's also important for retailers.
26:47Retailers can now know where their fishing vessels are operating
26:50and that they are not allowing illegally caught fish to enter the market.
26:55What are the fishing vessels?
26:56Who is authorised to fish?
26:58Who is not authorised to fish?
27:00Where can they fish?
27:01This needs to be in one place.
27:04With Project Eyes on the Seats, we bring all these data sources together into a single set system.
27:10And we can analyse those data sources with computer techniques.
27:14And as such, we can bring forward the same sorts of information to the analyst in milliseconds rather than hours.
27:20Vastly reducing the amount of time they have to look at data
27:23and bringing to their attention the suspicious vessels first.
27:28We can automate such things as when vessels come together.
27:31This could be a transshipment at sea where they are exchanging fish to bring them to port.
27:36But also the patterns that the vessels move in will allow us to see what sort of fishing they are
27:41doing.
27:41So we know whether they are trying to hide their activity by transmitting the wrong information but then acting in
27:48a different way.
27:50We can identify that this piece of movement is laying a net or this piece of movement is retrieving it.
27:57The computer can then learn these patterns and start to look for them elsewhere.
28:01So the machine learning is an important element of being able to identify key vessel movements for analysts to look
28:07at.
28:11In a decade's time systems like this combined with the policy and the leadership from those countries who need to
28:18work it most will make a difference on the water.
28:26It's a shared asset. It's the one great shared asset. The solutions can only be political.
28:34We should at least agree to exploit, say, 5% of the oceans and make the rest a sanctuary.
28:40It's a resource that we need on every level.
28:46For now, only 3% of the oceans are protected.
28:51To restore the natural environment and enable sustainable development,
28:56new protected marine areas are essential.
29:03There are success stories. The Ross Sea in Antarctica was recently protected.
29:08And in the Pacific, the US gave sanctuary to nearly 600,000 square miles.
29:20Marine protected areas have an advantage. They manufacture surplus.
29:24Fish, when left in peace, reproduce well and things are fine.
29:28So this fish surplus will fuel peripheral fishing.
29:32That's the ideal model to aim for.
29:36Well-managed, small-scale fishing around protected areas would preserve habitats,
29:41banish the monsters and create a surplus of fish.
29:48Will that be enough to feed 9 billion earthlings in 2050?
29:53Half the fish we eat already comes from farming.
29:59Is aquaculture the magic trick?
30:02Fish farms are spreading their shapes on the seas.
30:07But this also leads to the depletion of stocks.
30:11Most fish eat other fish.
30:17With predators, the ratios are frightening.
30:22These lions we put into the water must be fed with lambs.
30:26It takes 4 kilos of fish, anchovies and sardines, to produce 1 kilo of salmon.
30:33Tuna is 20 times more.
30:36We use 20 kilos of sardines to make 1 kilo of tuna.
30:40So the bluefin tuna that feeds in the Mediterranean goes to Japan because of the high prices.
30:45And we have a food security problem because our economy in general is geared towards luxury.
30:50So we've got a real problem of distribution and ecological equity.
30:58Aquaculture can harm the environment.
31:01The pens are often overcrowded.
31:04And the water circulation isn't enough to disperse the waste.
31:09This generates pollution and illnesses.
31:16In Mexico, a new type of farm seeks to raise fish sustainably, without polluting the oceans.
31:29We believe it is a more sustainable way of raising fish in the sea.
31:40My name is Pablo Konietzko.
31:42I'm 46 years old.
31:44And I am a sustainable fish farmer contributing to the wealth of the ocean.
31:54We want to go offshore.
31:55That's where many of the fish species live.
31:58And we know that the deeper, the better, and the more pristine the water is out there.
32:06Having stronger currents, better water quality, not an enclosed base gives us the ability and the certainty that the fish
32:15are going to be very healthy, like if they were in the wild.
32:25Once I go underwater, I see this planet, this huge sphere, this huge ball with fish, not only inside but
32:37outside, because these domes act as fish aggregating devices.
32:46And then you enter through one of the hatches, and you're surrounded by this beautiful looking fish that just swims
32:55with you.
32:56It's an amazing experience.
33:03Five stories high, the aquapod cages are perfectly adapted for offshore conditions.
33:10They contain up to 60,000 fish, and their triangular steel panels are rock solid.
33:23It's a very robust structure.
33:25It's been through category two, three, four hurricanes, and survived.
33:29And it's proven to be predator proof against sea lions, seals, sharks, other animals that might want to attack the
33:37fish.
33:39My name is David Kelly.
33:42My vision for ocean farming is that we have a sustainable, scalable, ecologically sound farm system and approach.
33:53The aquapod, one of its major features is its ability to change its buoyancy to raise and lower in the
33:59water column.
34:00So it can be at the surface for harvesting and stocking activities, but it can be submerged for feeding and
34:06grow out of the fish.
34:07And that puts the fish out of the surface energy to less current environment.
34:15I think there needs to be a respect for the environment, respecting a lower density for fish to be able
34:22to swim, have a good health, grow as they should with a proper nutrition.
34:27And so far, with the tides and with the currents that we have on site, we have not seen any
34:34sedimentation on our seafloor concession.
34:42As we look to the future with the aquapod and the farm system, one of the areas we're most excited
34:47about is real-time data from the farm.
34:50So an ability to get data on temperature, dissolved oxygen, current, the conditions at the farm, so before a crew
34:57leaves shore, they know what they're going to encounter.
34:59An ability to track data cycles across the grow out of the fish to understand better the grow out and
35:06understand better the science of the fish.
35:08The goal would be to be able to operate the farm from the surface without divers.
35:25We want to work with species that have a low feed conversion ratio that might be very sustainable on one
35:33-on-one.
35:34That's what we try to aim. One fish in, one fish out.
35:42They've chosen to raise a species of fish native to this region and facing extinction.
35:49The Toto Abba.
35:56We are part of our restocking plan together with the government and science institutions to release some fish into the
36:04wild every year.
36:05Therefore, part of our juvenile production goes back to the Sea of Cortez.
36:15The Sea of Cortez was named the Aquarium of the World by Jacques Cousteau.
36:20I would like to see that we don't lose more species to extinction.
36:27And I don't want to see the oceans being overfished and empty as they are with fish.
36:40The marine farms of the future will help fish species survive and thrive.
36:51One example is Have Farm, a Norwegian farm boat project.
36:57This giant of the seas is as long as the Empire State Building.
37:02It will have a capacity of 10,000 tons of salmon or 2 million fish.
37:11Beyond aquaculture, maritime transport is being reinvented to make it more environmentally friendly.
37:21Soon, goods and passengers will cross the seas aboard new types of vessels,
37:27automated drone ships and maybe even a new kind of sailboat.
37:35The wind is pretty much a certainty, however it disrupted the climate.
37:39You can imagine any scenario, but there will always be wind.
37:44So why not use it?
37:45We'll obviously have to manage the aerodynamics of boats and all means of transport as efficiently as possible,
37:52so as to waste as little energy as possible.
37:57Tomorrow's cargo ships will be streamlined.
38:01Some envision the entire hull acting as a sail.
38:06Others dream of shipping goods via merchant submarines,
38:11running quiet and clean on electricity.
38:26In the future, will we have found a way to clean the oceans?
38:38Most of the garbage moves into the center of the large-scale ocean gyres,
38:42and once it's there, it very slowly breaks down.
38:46It becomes much smaller pieces of plastic and rubbish that actually enter the food chain.
38:52And so, in a way, it's out of sight, out of mind.
38:57150 million tons of plastic fouls the oceans, and that could double by 2050.
39:06Every minute, a full garbage truck is dumped into the seas.
39:12These garbage patches, they're actually thousands of kilometers in size,
39:16like a soup, like a very thick soup of rubbish.
39:21To round all that up over thousands of kilometers would be very difficult.
39:25Obviously, the best situation is to have no rubbish going into the ocean.
39:29In many countries, we can regulate this and stop this happening.
39:32But there are other solutions as well, and that's to make the plastics we use biodegradable,
39:37so that actually when the rubbish goes in there, it degrades much more quickly than the plastics we've been using
39:43for so long,
39:44that don't degrade at all, or when they do degrade, they degrade into toxic food for fish.
39:54Imagine truly edible packaging.
39:59Right now, efforts are underway to gather the waste.
40:06Ocean Cleanup aims to do just that with long, floating dams.
40:13Straddling the ocean currents, the dams will draw in plastic waste.
40:22These initiatives are small steps in the bigger project.
40:26Raising awareness that our fate is intimately tied to the oceans.
40:38To create solutions by 2050, our mindset must change.
40:48New technologies help us reach the greatest number of people.
40:53Real-time interaction, augmented and virtual reality.
40:58We can now immerse ourselves in the oceans.
41:09In Australia, two undersea photographers have a plan.
41:16They've taken the Google Street View platform underwater.
41:25Thanks to their images, we can all enjoy extraordinary virtual dives.
41:41My name is Christophe Bayache. I'm 46 years old.
41:44I really believe that people will soon realize how intimately connected they are with the ocean.
41:57When we started, we really wanted to reveal the oceans to the world in new ways.
42:02And so we came up with the ideas of effectively taking Google Street View underwater,
42:07which has never been done before.
42:11So, downward facing.
42:13Oh, yeah. Nice.
42:16Left image.
42:17Right in the middle of it.
42:19Oh, yes.
42:20Beautiful, eh?
42:21Okay, so let me just put it together very quick.
42:30We take things for granted. We've always thought that the oceans were too big to fail.
42:35When now, we started to realize very seriously that they are failing.
42:40And yet, there is this complete disconnect between this environment and people.
42:45You can't really protect what you can't see.
42:48And 99.9% of people don't die.
42:52I'm Richard Vivas. I'm 47 years old.
42:56I believe imagery is critical to protect the oceans.
43:10We're not really taught about the ocean at school, so people are so detached from this environment
43:17that it almost makes no sense when you just talk about what's happening in the ocean.
43:22So, what we thought we needed to do was reveal the oceans so people could go and explore them virtually.
43:40Three synchronized still cameras take images that are assembled as 360-degree panoramic views.
43:49They're creating a visual encyclopedia of a world on the brink.
44:00Every time we dive with this camera system, we take about a thousand of this panoramic imagery.
44:06So, you can really quickly see the power and the fact that this project really scales up the type of
44:12content we could capture and collect along the length of this incredible marine ecosystem.
44:26Now we've found ourselves in this unique position of having the only virtual reality record of the ocean, 600,000
44:33images in 26 different countries.
44:38These dreamers are just getting started.
44:42Here we come.
44:43Ah, yes.
44:44That's almost a perfect shot for doing MantaID.
44:49Yeah.
44:49Because what I'm thinking we should do is do a whole expedition, so a school program, on just Manta rays.
44:58Absolutely.
44:59I mean, there's so much to say, right?
45:01I mean, endangered species, the least known of all the rays species, yet so iconic.
45:08I mean, yeah, there's so much to say about them.
45:09Yeah.
45:11This would look really good in, with the VR headsets on.
45:15Yeah.
45:16The new concept here is that 30 to 40 to 50 people at the same time can experience the same
45:22content.
45:26This is so cool.
45:29This is so cool.
45:31So we now...
45:33I can't even speak.
45:36So you guys now are at a place called Lighthouse Bomi.
45:42So what do you think this Manta ray is called?
45:46Can you see the mark on the belly?
45:48It's got a V.
45:49So it's a V shape, and this one has been called Venus.
45:52Every single Manta has got its own marking.
45:55It's like a human fingerprint, basically.
45:57And that's how you differentiate each of them.
46:01So I can see all of you are there on the V for Venice.
46:08This technology with 360 photography is as if it was invented for underwater.
46:15Because you can look up, you can see fish all around you.
46:19You can look down, look at the coral reef underneath you, and you feel immersed.
46:23And it's the only real way, in my view, to feel what it's like to be underwater.
46:33Once you've got their interest, you can tell the stories.
46:36So we've had huge success in using this imagery to talk about issues that normally wouldn't get any coverage at
46:43all.
47:10Easily, we would want to take every single kid on a讓.
47:14virtual dive and ignite something in them so that they become the next generation of
47:20conservationists and that they can really try and do a much better job that we ourselves
47:25have done so far with the ocean.
47:29And rather than every story about the ocean as it is today, which is a negative story,
47:34we're losing fish, we've huge plastic problems, we're losing coral reefs, it should all be
47:41stories of recovery in 50 years time, and I believe that will happen.
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