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Sharkwater
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For as long as I can remember... |
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...I've been drawn to sharks. |
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They're the most amazing |
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I thought if I studied them, |
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About balance in the ocean |
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That the one animal |
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...is the one we can't live without. |
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Predator of the sea... |
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...terror of all men |
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...the very symbol |
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That is the shark. |
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What is he really? |
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We know little, |
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...before the continents |
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...before the dinosaur lived, |
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...essentially unchanged. |
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One of the oldest living things |
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How has the shark survived... |
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...when almost all that lived |
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...has either perished or changed? |
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Man must know all there is to know |
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Whether the shark |
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If he is... |
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...how to protect against him. |
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If he isn't... |
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...how to live with him. |
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You're told your whole life, |
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...sharks are dangerous. |
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You're warned about venturing |
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...but then finally |
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...and you see the thing |
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...your whole life to fear, |
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...and it doesn't want to hurt you... |
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...and it's the most beautiful thing |
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...and your whole world changes. |
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Ever since I was little, |
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Like many kids, |
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...but realized I was much happier |
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Sharks were my favourite animals |
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...but all I'd heard about... |
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...was how dangerous they were. |
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I hated being afraid |
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...to find out the truth about sharks |
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I became |
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...and a biologist... |
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...and from that point on, |
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So little is known |
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...and how important they are |
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Two-thirds of the world's surface |
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...and over 80º/º of life on Earth... |
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...lives in the ocean. |
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I learned to dive |
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...but photographing sharks |
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They're so afraid of us. |
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Sharks can see us |
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They can sense our energy... |
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...and they viewed me as a threat. |
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Sharks have been here |
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150 million years |
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...when life had just begun on land. |
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There was little oxygen |
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...and only two continents. |
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Sharks were shaping this world. |
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Life on Earth |
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The first animals were tiny, |
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...that gave rise to algae, coral... |
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...and tiny planktonic animals. |
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More invertebrates followed, |
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One of the first vertebrates |
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...and the only large animal |
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...for 400 million years... |
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...is the shark. |
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New animals to evolve in the ocean |
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...the sharks... |
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...giving rise to schooling behaviour... |
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...camouflage, speed, |
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Sharks control |
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...eliminating species |
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...and creating new ones. |
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Even though sharks |
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...and take up to 25 years |
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...they've managed to survive |
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...that wiped most life |
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They're architects of our world. |
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Most of what people |
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...they've heard from the media. |
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The more time I spent with sharks... |
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...the more I realized that they're |
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They are perfect predators... |
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...that hold the underwater world |
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...the lions and tigers of the seas. |
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I spent so much time underwater... |
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...so I could gain their trust... |
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...and get close enough |
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Everything moved together... |
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...lived together... |
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...and died with a purpose. |
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This shark and his relatives... |
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...are long-established |
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He is a wicked, |
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If sharks are in the area... |
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...you can repel them with sounds... |
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...by striking the surface of the water... |
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...with your cupped hand. |
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Or you can shout underwater. |
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Among the visual methods |
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...are directing a stream of bubbles... |
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...from your life preserver |
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Tearing up paper |
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...and scattering them... |
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...all around the raft. |
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If a shark threatens to attack you |
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...do not try to shoot or knife him. |
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Chances are you would only |
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Remember... |
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...his front end |
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Once in your raft... |
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...stay there and remain quiet. |
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Remember that as a human being... |
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...you are smarter than a shark, |
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Elephants kill more people |
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...so there's some deep-seated |
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...about a cold-eyed monster |
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...and picking you to pieces, |
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It's weird that white sharks |
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...because they really hardly bite. |
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If we go into the statistics, |
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...who bite the most. |
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And it's very hard, actually, |
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It's much easier to repel him |
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...bring him in, |
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So I think the main reason |
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...of a white shark |
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...and the misconception |
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And I think a big part |
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...to present the white shark |
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Three people were hurt Saturday |
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Time magazine is calling |
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And of course the question |
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When will it be safe |
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We love to have a monster, |
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And it's not good television... |
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...if, you know, this monster |
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...actually is a very shy, hesitant animal... |
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...that has a hard time, |
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So we like to have the monster... |
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...and that's why |
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I was on an assignment... |
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...photographing |
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600 miles from Ecuador... |
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...in the middle of the Pacific... |
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...in total isolation... |
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...from the rest of the world. |
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It's a world heritage site... |
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...full of species |
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This is where Charles Darwin... |
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...developed his theory of evolution. |
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What I believe |
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I think animals |
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I think whales |
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...fish were amazingly abundant; |
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...before man got in there... |
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...and really hacked |
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I travelled 160 miles |
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...to Darwin and Wolf... |
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...two remote undersea volcanoes... |
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...that barely broke the surface. |
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One of the few places on Earth... |
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...where hammerhead sharks |
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We're just getting ready |
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...where there's supposed to be |
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The undersea currents come up... |
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...bringing nutrient-rich water |
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...which causes a ton |
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...and the hammerhead sharks |
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...and they circle in the current... |
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...and go back down at night |
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So we're gonna go down |
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...and see if we can find |
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...possibly a silky shark or two. |
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The Galapagos hosts... |
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...one of the largest marine |
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...where sharks |
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Hammerheads are some |
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They are incredibly shy animals. |
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Hammerheads, like all sharks... |
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...have two more senses than people. |
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They have lateral lines |
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...that can detect movement |
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Their heads |
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...that detects electro-magnetic fields... |
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...enabling them to find food |
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...and to feel my heartbeat. |
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They can feel me... |
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...and know if I'm excited or scared. |
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They're so afraid of us... |
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...that if I'm not calm... |
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...keeping my heart rate low... |
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...they won't come |
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Hammerheads use |
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...to follow undersea ridges |
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...navigating thousands of miles |
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Sharks are normally solitary... |
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...but hammerheads come together... |
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...only at a few undersea pinnacles... |
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...to socialize and mate. |
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The schools are made up |
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...with the largest vying |
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...where the males come |
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Dominant females, |
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...control their position in the school... |
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...using aggressive displays... |
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...pushing subordinate females |
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The schools break up at night... |
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...when they descend |
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We know so little about sharks... |
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...that a new species of hammerhead... |
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...was just found |
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The shape of their head... |
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...makes them one of the most |
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But the truth is... |
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...there's no record |
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...ever killing anyone. |
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When we surfaced from the dive... |
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...we found two fishing boats... |
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...trailing 60 miles of long lines. |
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A line with 16,000 baited hooks... |
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...that would stretch from Earth |
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The boats fled... |
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...because long-line fishing |
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...and we were left with the lines. |
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I hopped in the water |
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...and brought my cameras in |
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...whatever I could find |
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...and we swam for probably |
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...pulling ourselves along the lines... |
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...and unclipping |
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The first fish I found |
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...and it was dead. |
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It suffocated because it wrapped itself |
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So it couldn't keep swimming |
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Farther along the line, |
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It was still alive. |
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It was swimming in a circle... |
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...the largest it could... |
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...considering the long line |
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I slowly pulled myself close |
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...and I cut it loose. |
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Then I found the sharks. |
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For 60 miles... |
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...sharks were dying on those lines. |
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They struggle so much... |
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...that they entangle themselves |
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There were only a few left alive... |
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...and I cut them loose. |
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In total... |
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...we found 160 sharks... |
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...five sailfish... |
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...four dorado and a tuna. |
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It felt like part of my family |
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Something shifted that day... |
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...and I changed. |
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This is just a line... |
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...a long line with baited hooks on it... |
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...but many, many animals... |
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...most animals swimming around |
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...are interested |
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...so take the hooks |
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And they may or may not be |
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...and things like leatherback turtles |
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...can simply get entangled |
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There are more selective ways |
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...there's a lot of waste |
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And I think one of the big reasons... |
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...it continues to go on, |
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We know that predators |
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...the structure and the functioning |
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So basically if you cut off |
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...if you wish, |
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...the top carnivores that control |
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...lower down in the food web... |
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...you're removing a really important |
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...and that could cause upheaval |
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...like the plants... |
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...and the zooplankton. |
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The ocean is basically |
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...of the planet. |
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To change |
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...in any major way |
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We know from the past |
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...that life on Earth has changed. |
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I needed to know |
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...and what I could do to stop it. |
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So I left my job as a photographer... |
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...and set out |
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...but they were gone. |
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In places where I'd always |
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I only found a few. |
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Shark populations have been decimated |
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...and the last sharks |
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...in the few remaining sanctuaries. |
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Nobody noticed. |
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Everyone wanted to save pandas, |
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...and the world |
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I read this story |
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...and got swallowed whole. |
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...it just swallowed him. |
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And they cut out |
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And it wasn't even bit, |
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So if you're not seeing sharks here... |
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...why are you so afraid |
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Because they'll still bite you... |
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...and I... I panic, I always panic. |
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I'm such a wimp. |
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Well, what are your chances |
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They must be so small. |
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No, it's small. I've never seen |
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I've never heard |
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...getting bit by sharks |
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That's true. |
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- Not even in Daytona. |
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Sharks rarely bite human beings, |
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...and say, "Ah, look, |
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They try to figure out what we are. |
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They don't know what we are, |
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On the very rare occasions |
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...they actually can just do |
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...and that's why the majority of all bites |
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You hardly have |
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So that tells us something, |
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...out of these millions and millions |
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...that we have with these animals. |
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So just based on that, |
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People think: Well, they're dumb... |
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...they're stupid. |
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Their intelligence is quite amazing. |
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They have short-term memories, |
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...they can learn by observation. |
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So nothing is stupid or primitive |
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So all the ideas, |
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...they just bite everything that is shiny. |
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Well, pretty quick you realize, |
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In just one year, |
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...wiped out as many people |
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...over the past 100. |
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The crocodile is protected. |
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No? |
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The sharks not? |
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Yeah? |
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Yeah? |
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So I should not... |
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Like, it's not a good idea |
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They're the scourge of the ocean |
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All the greens can come around |
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"Let 'em live, let' em live. " Okay? |
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...but we don't go out there |
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But they come in here and get us. |
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How bad |
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You make it sound |
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...to human beings |
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Well, you try swimming, |
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...in 8 feet of water |
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...because we got no hope, |
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But don't you think |
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...and capturing sharks |
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...is that you bring about |
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...they're going to panic? |
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No, I've saved a lot of lives. |
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If it wasn't for me |
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...there'd be a lot more people killed. |
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The fact is, |
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If they did, I would've been eaten |
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Most sharks have teeth |
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...and can't effectively remove flesh... |
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...from something larger |
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One hundred needles in your leg... |
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...would have a tough time |
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Most sharks lack |
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...to go after large animals like us, |
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They've evolved |
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...and most sharks are picky eaters. |
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They won't bother wasting energy... |
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...going after something |
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When a shark mistake does happen... |
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...the person inevitably |
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In most shark attacks... |
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...flesh is never removed. |
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Even in the odd case |
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...it's usually because of blood loss... |
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...not because the shark |
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A twelve-foot |
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...could do anything it wanted |
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...and they don't. |
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It's a huge testament |
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...how few people |
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You wouldn't go for a run |
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...but we do this with sharks |
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There are millions of people |
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...in areas where sharks hunt... |
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...and very few people are bitten. |
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If they wanted to eat us, |
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The mythology about sharks |
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...uh, they're kind of |
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...and they have sharp teeth |
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But the fact is, |
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...whales used to be |
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I mean, |
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Moby Dick was portrayed |
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...as being a monster of the deep. |
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You know, a man hunter. |
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But everything in the environment... |
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...everything that exists, |
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We tend to be afraid |
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...but, you know, |
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Once people see whales or sharks |
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...they can change their mind. |
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These are beautiful creatures... |
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...absolutely beautiful creatures... |
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...that have every right in the world |
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I went to all the major |
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...and there was virtually no one |
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Are you really concerned |
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Oh, / am very concerned, |
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Well, then, let's see some action |
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Then I met up with Paul Watson. |
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What is my type, sir? |
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The renegade |
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He sunk a whole Norwegian |
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...and ended pirate whaling |
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...when no one else could. |
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Paul was one of the original |
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...and he's been at war against poaching |
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I set up the Sea Shepherd |
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...as an organization |
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...to uphold international conservation |
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...so it's not a protest organization... |
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...but an organization |
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...because there really is no enforcement |
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...to uphold these international |
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They're trying to sink the ship; |
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...they are trying to sink the ship. |
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So part of the role of the activist, |
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"Don't let them get away with it... |
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...or make 'em do it in the light of day. " |
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He's a hero... |
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...someone who just does... |
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...what the politicians |
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Captain Paul Watson... |
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...leads possibly the most violent... |
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...and radical, green movement |
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Well, if you kill anybody, |
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You have no authority over us, |
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Move aside, get 'em! |
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Launched from the gunboat, |
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...with tear gas bullets |
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It's the first time in history |
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...has been fired at. |
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No, really what we're here to do |
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...to rock the boat, to make noise; |
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That's really the main objective... |
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...of the Sea Shepherd |
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Why aren't you people |
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The only violence |
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...is the illegal slaughter of whales... |
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...and that is violent |
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Paul and Sea Shepherd |
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...against poaching in two of the world's |
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The Galapagos, Ecuador... |
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...and in Cocos, Costa Rica. |
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Cocos is a tiny island |
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360 miles from Costa Rica. |
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It's a national park |
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...with the greatest concentration |
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But Costa Rica has no money |
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...and poachers |
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No, it's been cut in the head! |
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The sharks were being wiped out. |
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Well, Jesus Christ, |
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So the President of Costa Rica |
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Why, it's illegal as well. |
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Paul was my kinda guy, |
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...who was doing anything |
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He asked me to join the campaign |
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Okay. |
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I joined Paul in Los Angeles... |
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...aboard the Sea Shepherd ship, |
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...and we started our journey south... |
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3,000 miles to Costa Rica. |
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They repaint and rename the boat |
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...to avoid being recognized |
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The Ocean Warrior has been |
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...dozens of times |
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...the flags of boats it has rammed |
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It's equipped with a can opener... |
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...a hydraulic steel blade... |
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...that extends from the side of the boat |
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We traveled south on the open ocean |
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2,500 miles from Los Angeles |
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...we found a pirate long-lining boat |
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Doesn't take much |
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I'll tell ya. |
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Jesus Christ... |
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...they're going slower. |
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The Varadero was from Costa Rica |
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...to fish outside of Costa Rica |
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Which way? |
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We radioed Guatemala... |
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...who asked us to escort the boat |
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We asked that they bring in their lines |
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...that were caught... |
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...but they weren't releasing |
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They're not answering? |
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We were racing them to the lines; |
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...every time they got ahead of us, |
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All these boats, |
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...when they go fishing... |
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...and that's actually |
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...all they want is profit. |
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Once they've left port... |
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...it's like the ocean is a free place; |
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...you do what you want out there. |
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They got another shark! |
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Got a shark? |
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Tell that guy |
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Tell him that if he doesn't release |
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...we're gonna sink his line. |
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Hey, Rob, did you get a picture |
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If he doesn't stop, |
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Actually hold on, |
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Bring it up to the bow and see |
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Got their line? |
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If you can grab the line on... |
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Get it? Goddamn, |
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...they're pulling it off. |
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They wouldn't stop |
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The sharks were incredibly |
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They were killing them |
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Shark-fin soup |
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...and served as a sign of respect. |
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The soup has been around |
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...but only in the last two decades |
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The fin is tasteless... |
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...adding only texture to a soup |
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It became a status symbol... |
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...served at weddings, banquets... |
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...and expensive dinners. |
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A single pound of fin |
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...and the shark-fin industry... |
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...is a billion-dollar juggernaut. |
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Every year, |
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...are killed to support |
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...in their fins and other products. |
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But the biggest prize is the shark fin. |
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Half a world away, |
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...shark-fin soup is a delicacy. |
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It sells for up to $90 a bowl. |
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It's a royal food; |
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...it's the food of the emperors. |
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They make a soup out of the fins... |
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...and any Chinese chef |
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...has to be able to make |
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...as strange as that may seem, |
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...of the populations of sharks |
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The word was out... |
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...that fins meant money... |
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...and sharks were being killed |
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...in virtually every country |
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There's so much money in fins... |
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...that only trafficking drugs |
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People thousands of years from now, |
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...aren't gonna have much respect |
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...that deprived them of the things |
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...that diminish their world for them. |
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They're not gonna have any respect |
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...just as we don't have any respect |
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For the first time |
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...sharks were prey. |
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They were even killing whale sharks. |
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The largest fish on Earth... |
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...that eats only microscopic plankton |
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They are the gentle giants |
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...following plankton blooms. |
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We know nothing |
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...where they mate... |
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...or how long they live... |
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...though they're thought |
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And now the whale shark, |
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...the great white shark |
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...are endangered. |
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A large fin like this... |
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...can now sell |
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...and conservationists say |
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...has become a serious threat |
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...but also to other shark species |
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By the time it gets to Asia... |
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...it's gonna be up to $200 US a pound |
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So it goes from 80 cents here |
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...ending up at $200 US |
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...so it's a magical little process... |
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...that we've gotta figure out |
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Yeah, it's the fin, fish. |
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They make some kind of pills |
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In Asia, they think |
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...as easily as other animals do... |
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...that sharks |
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...and it's all false information... |
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...because sharks get cancer, |
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- He doesn't want us to film. |
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He tells us to leave. |
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Uh, we just went in restaurant |
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They do serve shark fin, |
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You can even go to pharmacies |
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...because of its powers |
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That shows you the misconceptions |
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...that they think because sharks |
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...and they don't get sick |
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...that if you eat sharks |
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Some companies have capitalized |
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...marketing shark cartilage |
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But there's no scientific backing |
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It's actually been proven... |
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...to do nothing to cure disease... |
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...and now sharks are so contaminated |
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...we've put in the ocean... |
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...that eating shark products... |
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...is more likely |
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The Varadero |
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...and throwing the bodies overboard. |
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We tried to talk with them: |
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They are illegally fishing |
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It was easy to see their motivation |
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...but they were poaching sharks |
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On instructions |
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...we ordered them |
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...and follow us into port. |
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He's got to make a decision... |
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...whether we're gonna tow him |
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- They're dragging a shark! |
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Now they decided to run from us. |
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They know that if we take them there... |
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...they're gonna lose their boat there, |
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So we're gonna have to go back |
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We chased them |
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...in hopes of flooding |
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So we can arrest them? |
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We gonna hit 'em? |
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Unless people are prepared... |
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...to devote their lives |
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...nothing's really going to change. |
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But you don't need everybody. |
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You just simply need |
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Five, seven percent |
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Okay, let's get ready. |
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The Varadero finally agreed |
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...where we could deliver them |
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About three hours from port, |
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...that Guatemala had sent a gunboat out |
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The Varadero |
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With so much money |
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...and much of it |
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...we knew something |
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Lives have been lost |
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...and we had no interest |
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So we ditched the Varadero... |
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...and continued south |
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The United Nations |
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...based in Rome, |
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...the top international body |
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...they don't have |
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...over the international waters. |
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Guess what? No one does. |
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So until the countries of the world |
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...to create some kind of body |
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...over the catch limits... |
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...and conservation |
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...they're not going to be regulated |
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It's just basically |
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...and, in fact, |
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...with people just taking |
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Imagine if you went into the forest |
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...that caught, you know, |
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...squirrels, dogs... |
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...you know, |
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...when really what you were only after |
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...or perhaps three or four, |
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...that were caught, |
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I mean, |
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I mean, you know... |
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...nobody could put a trap line down |
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...and throw away half the animals |
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Nobody would tolerate it |
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...but it's going on out there |
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Oh |
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Can't anybody see |
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we've got a war to fight |
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Never found our way |
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Regardless of what they say |
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How can it feel this wrong |
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From this moment |
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How can it feel this wrong |
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How can it feel |
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This wrong |
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From this moment |
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How can it feel |
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This wrong |
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When we got to Costa Rica, |
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The crew of the Varadero, |
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...claimed that we tried to kill them. |
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Okay. |
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I don't know what this is, either. |
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- You know... You know what this? |
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- Yeah, uh... |
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It's the order of the judge... |
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...it's the official order |
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...and to make... |
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We were charged |
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- Crowded in here. |
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...and the tapes went to Canada |
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They were after Paul |
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...and me because I filmed it... |
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...and they wanted my footage. |
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Do you have any form |
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...since the beginning |
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Do I have any way to get that? |
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- Yeah. |
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- Someone else got it? |
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Okay... |
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Arrest? |
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Did you ask them? |
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Can I ask them? Yeah, probably. |
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What you have to do... |
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...you have to call them by phone |
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- Uh, yeah. |
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- Right now? |
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It's important |
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It's better... |
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They set the fishing boat free... |
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...and we were being arrested... |
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And, uh, we have all of the law, |
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...talking to us. |
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They want to see... |
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They're totally blank, |
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- You sure they're not in here? |
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Not everyone's gonna fit; |
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...there's about this much room |
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It didn't make any sense |
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...and ignoring the fishing boat. |
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We were invited here |
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...to protect Cocos |
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What do you think |
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I have no idea; |
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I don't think they know |
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What kind of weapons |
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A shotgun. |
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Can we see them? |
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Oh, yeah, sure. |
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There's just one. |
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Yeah, |
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It wasn't an issue |
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They were going to stop us |
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The authorities left us |
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...but we had to fight the charges |
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Questions |
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What are the chances |
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...and what are the chances |
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We were summoned |
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...where we met with Milton, |
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...to figure out our options |
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How come everybody's ignoring |
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...one: Violated Guatemalan law, |
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...and international law, |
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They cannot take sharks |
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...they cannot fish |
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...they cannot fish |
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...without a permit. |
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Everybody's ignoring that. |
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Paul's been in this situation before... |
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...and he knows we're in big trouble |
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Well, the fact is, if we were |
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...other than Costa Rica, |
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One other thing: If they have a trial, |
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...and if they have a trial, |
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- Three judges. |
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- Yes |
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Oh, geez, |
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But I find it amazing |
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...is coming at us so viciously... |
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...when what they're defending |
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And, of course, when you see... |
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...the number of long-liners |
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...including Taiwanese long-liners |
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...and the judicial system |
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...they are certainly not interested |
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...but they seem to be very determined |
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...who's going to interfere |
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Then I met William... |
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...a conservationist who believed |
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...were being paid out |
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...who ran the shark-fishing business |
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Finning sharks is illegal |
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...but huge shipments |
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...were turning up all over Asia... |
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...and no one knew how. |
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William believed |
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...had private docks... |
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...where no one would know |
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I needed to know |
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...if they were really finning sharks. |
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So we broke house arrest |
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In all our time filming sharks, |
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There was a whole street |
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...along a secluded bay... |
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...all with private docks. |
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These plants process, |
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...coming mostly |
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They dry the fins on the roof... |
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...behind huge cement walls, |
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Virtually all of the fins |
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...making it out of Costa Rica... |
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...without being noticed. |
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This operation had fins from nearly |
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There were millions of dollars in fins |
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...that the authorities |
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...all controlled |
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The fins were bringing Costa Rica |
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...and we were trying to stop it. |
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Now I knew |
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...and I knew |
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I couldn't believe |
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...especially in a country |
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At another fin operation, |
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...sitting next to the building |
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...to film the fins in broad daylight. |
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There were at least 10,000 fins... |
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...drying on the roof, |
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...trying to push the fins |
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Then they stormed out of the building |
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...so we jumped into William's car |
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The corruption was real; |
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...we'd uncovered a huge |
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...that the authorities ignored. |
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Taiwan donated |
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...to Puntarenas... |
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...bridges and buildings |
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One hundred million sharks |
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...to support a billion-dollar |
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...that Costa Rica was profiting from. |
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I knew we were in serious trouble. |
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We'd be lucky |
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William told me |
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...the shark-fin Mafia |
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Oh Sinnerman |
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Sinnerman |
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where you gonna run to |
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All along dem day |
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well / run to the rock |
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Please hide me |
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When we got back on the boat... |
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...we heard from our lawyer |
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...was on their way to arrest us |
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We had to get out of there, |
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...and made a break |
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/ said rock |
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what's a matter with you rock |
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- I think it's heading this way. |
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Within minutes... |
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...the Coast Guard was chasing us |
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...telling us that they will shoot |
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/t was bleedin' |
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/t was bleedin' / run to the sea |
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I don't like guys waving machine guns, |
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No, just the barbed wire right now. |
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But we knew we couldn't stop. |
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So we strung barbed wire |
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...so the Coast Guard couldn't |
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We're not stopping. |
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Please hide me Lord |
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Don't you see me prayin' |
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Don't you see me |
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Tell everybody to be very careful |
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If they shoot, |
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Well, tell 'em to shoot. |
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We're not stopping. |
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All along dem day |
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So / ran to the devil |
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He was waitin' |
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He was waitin' |
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He was waitin' |
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...we did everything |
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Uh, what do they want to do? |
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Start another international incident |
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Tell 'em we have to call our lawyer. |
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See if we can call Milton on the radio |
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Sinnerman you oughta be prayin' |
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Oughta be prayin' Sinnerman |
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Oughta be prayin' |
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All on that day |
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/ cried power |
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Power |
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Power |
| 00:57:53 |
Finally, we made it out |
| 00:57:56 |
...and the Coast Guard stopped. |
| 00:58:05 |
We continued southwest... |
| 00:58:07 |
...to the Galapagos... |
| 00:58:08 |
...leaving Cocos to the poachers. |
| 00:58:11 |
The fins were worth |
| 00:58:14 |
...and there was a whole industry |
| 00:58:17 |
We knew we could never go back |
| 00:58:28 |
Four days from Costa Rica... |
| 00:58:29 |
...and 800 miles later... |
| 00:58:32 |
...we arrived |
| 00:58:35 |
Sea Shepherd was invited |
| 00:58:38 |
...to protect the marine reserve |
| 00:58:40 |
...and we were making our way |
| 00:58:43 |
...to the main town of Santa Cruz... |
| 00:58:46 |
...where we would meet with the navy... |
| 00:58:49 |
...who control the park. |
| 00:58:53 |
Although the Galapagos |
| 00:58:56 |
...some fishing has always |
| 00:58:58 |
...to provide the island residents |
| 00:59:02 |
The fishermen soon realized... |
| 00:59:04 |
...that their underwater treasure |
| 00:59:07 |
...and started |
| 00:59:10 |
The government noticed |
| 00:59:13 |
...to protect the resource... |
| 00:59:15 |
...but the fishermen rioted... |
| 00:59:18 |
...destroying national-park offices... |
| 00:59:19 |
...holding national-park officials |
| 00:59:22 |
...and threatening to kill |
| 00:59:26 |
The government gave in... |
| 00:59:28 |
...and raised the quotas. |
| 00:59:58 |
Ecuador is on the side |
| 01:00:01 |
...but laws written down |
| 01:00:05 |
...are something very different. |
| 01:00:08 |
And one of the problems |
| 01:00:12 |
...is that we really often don't understand |
| 01:00:17 |
At this present moment... |
| 01:00:18 |
...sharks are protected |
| 01:00:22 |
It is not legal to take sharks. |
| 01:00:27 |
One of the very strong pressures |
| 01:00:32 |
...is to open long-lining. |
| 01:00:35 |
Then you're really talking |
| 01:00:41 |
We know relatively little... |
| 01:00:44 |
...about the general ecology |
| 01:00:48 |
...and to risk removing... |
| 01:00:50 |
...a large number of predators |
| 01:00:53 |
...may have consequences... |
| 01:00:55 |
...which we have |
| 01:01:08 |
Shark finning is a very profitable |
| 01:01:11 |
...to make a lot of money... |
| 01:01:14 |
...and it has the similar sort of ring, |
| 01:01:18 |
...to sea cucumbers. |
| 01:01:23 |
And even |
| 01:01:26 |
...we're already changing situations. |
| 01:01:33 |
I doubt very much |
| 01:01:36 |
...simply because |
| 01:01:43 |
A few men from some |
| 01:01:47 |
...they're actually |
| 01:01:49 |
...just came up to our boat |
| 01:01:53 |
...because they had two of their fishermen |
| 01:01:55 |
One man had been bent |
| 01:01:57 |
...he'd had severe pain |
| 01:01:59 |
...and it hasn't gone away; |
| 01:02:02 |
He went back down, |
| 01:02:05 |
...came back up and feels fine. |
| 01:02:07 |
If he's been bent four days |
| 01:02:09 |
...in his shoulder, |
| 01:02:12 |
The bends is a disease |
| 01:02:15 |
...and surfacing quickly. |
| 01:02:17 |
It's incredibly painful |
| 01:02:20 |
...if you don't get |
| 01:02:23 |
If someone's paying them |
| 01:02:27 |
...someone should be able |
| 01:02:30 |
...to Santa Cruz |
| 01:02:32 |
Because he's really sick. |
| 01:02:34 |
He could die |
| 01:02:39 |
But the problem is, |
| 01:02:43 |
...so they don't want to go back |
| 01:02:47 |
Lose four days of fishing... |
| 01:02:50 |
...or lose your man? |
| 01:02:54 |
The cucumbers were worth more |
| 01:03:00 |
With the cucumbers nearly gone... |
| 01:03:02 |
...the fishermen are pushing |
| 01:03:05 |
...which catches mostly sharks. |
| 01:03:08 |
Sharks have always been protected |
| 01:03:11 |
Now that Costa Rica |
| 01:03:14 |
...the Galapagos is one |
| 01:03:19 |
Legalizing long-lining here... |
| 01:03:21 |
...would wipe out |
| 01:03:24 |
Every animal and ecosystem |
| 01:03:27 |
...depends on the ocean |
| 01:03:39 |
Sharks have a really tough time... |
| 01:03:41 |
...catching seals and sea lions. |
| 01:03:44 |
They shaped these animals, |
| 01:03:47 |
...so they evolved ways |
| 01:03:53 |
The seal evolved |
| 01:03:55 |
...making them extremely agile |
| 01:03:59 |
...and a difficult target for sharks. |
| 01:04:02 |
The sharks have to ambush the seals |
| 01:04:07 |
To ambush a seal, |
| 01:04:09 |
...out of visible range... |
| 01:04:11 |
...looking for the silhouette |
| 01:04:14 |
...a very similar silhouette |
| 01:04:19 |
A healthy seal |
| 01:04:22 |
...without any noise or bubbles. |
| 01:04:23 |
But an injured one |
| 01:04:26 |
...creating a disturbance |
| 01:04:27 |
...just like humans when we swim. |
| 01:04:31 |
It's amazing how few people |
| 01:04:35 |
...considering how much |
| 01:04:38 |
We treat animals differently, |
| 01:04:41 |
So the cute little baby harp seal |
| 01:04:44 |
...just as viciously as a shark. |
| 01:04:46 |
But we think of the seal |
| 01:04:49 |
...and we think of the shark |
| 01:04:52 |
...but that's just human mythology. |
| 01:05:25 |
Then my mission stopped cold... |
| 01:05:28 |
I had a pain in my leg |
| 01:05:33 |
It was diagnosed |
| 01:05:35 |
Doctors said |
| 01:05:38 |
...that I would only lose my leg. |
| 01:05:43 |
I had a pain in my lymph gland |
| 01:05:46 |
...to the left of my groin... |
| 01:05:48 |
...and I came to the hospital, |
| 01:05:52 |
...they said I got Staphylococcal |
| 01:05:56 |
Staphylococcus, |
| 01:06:00 |
...infects the body through any wound... |
| 01:06:02 |
...even a tiny cut, |
| 01:06:06 |
It destroys tissue, |
| 01:06:09 |
...and if untreated, can kill you. |
| 01:06:17 |
I was hospitalized, |
| 01:06:22 |
Watching the IV |
| 01:06:25 |
...drip into my arm. |
| 01:06:27 |
Now that I couldn't be |
| 01:06:30 |
...they were dripping the ocean |
| 01:06:35 |
I'll be fine, okay? |
| 01:06:38 |
I promise. |
| 01:06:40 |
I lay there, watching the red line |
| 01:06:45 |
It was halfway through my thigh |
| 01:06:49 |
I would lose more than my leg. |
| 01:06:54 |
I'm probably way more likely |
| 01:07:03 |
Dude... Brian, don't get stressed |
| 01:07:09 |
It's fine, it's just... |
| 01:07:14 |
Then I heard from Paul. |
| 01:07:16 |
He said there was nothing |
| 01:07:19 |
Sea Shepherd was being |
| 01:07:25 |
...because the Galapagos |
| 01:07:31 |
The fishermen wanted more money |
| 01:07:34 |
The government gave in... |
| 01:07:37 |
...and long-lining was legalized. |
| 01:07:41 |
Now we've lost Cocos |
| 01:07:44 |
...to the fin industry. |
| 01:07:47 |
I think the world needs to know... |
| 01:07:50 |
...that sharks are probably... |
| 01:07:52 |
...the most threatened |
| 01:07:55 |
...that we have |
| 01:07:58 |
And that a lot of shark species |
| 01:08:01 |
...that this is not |
| 01:08:04 |
It's because of fishing |
| 01:08:08 |
...and that there's a lot we can do |
| 01:08:16 |
Sharks are going to be difficult |
| 01:08:19 |
...because on one hand, |
| 01:08:23 |
...and not really wanting |
| 01:08:27 |
People can sort of fish them |
| 01:08:30 |
There's nobody |
| 01:08:32 |
There's no campaign... |
| 01:08:34 |
...like a Greenpeace campaign... |
| 01:08:36 |
...to save the sharks. |
| 01:10:40 |
Paul left to start a campaign... |
| 01:10:43 |
...against illegal whaling |
| 01:10:46 |
And I was alone. |
| 01:10:50 |
Two of the world's |
| 01:10:53 |
...were going to be wiped out. |
| 01:10:56 |
During my last six days |
| 01:10:58 |
...more than 1.5 million sharks |
| 01:11:03 |
Everyone told me to go home... |
| 01:11:06 |
...forget about sharks... |
| 01:11:07 |
...and try and save my leg. |
| 01:11:10 |
I didn't know if what I was doing |
| 01:11:14 |
...but all I could think about... |
| 01:11:16 |
...was getting back underwater |
| 01:11:24 |
Sharks' presence in the ocean |
| 01:11:27 |
...for the populations below them... |
| 01:11:29 |
...including phytoplankton... |
| 01:11:31 |
...tiny aquatic plants |
| 01:11:34 |
...than anything else on Earth. |
| 01:11:36 |
Carbon dioxide |
| 01:11:38 |
...and plankton converts it to oxygen... |
| 01:11:41 |
...providing 70º/º of the oxygen |
| 01:11:44 |
Without sharks to prey on them... |
| 01:11:46 |
...plankton feeders below sharks |
| 01:11:49 |
...consuming the plankton |
| 01:11:54 |
The ocean |
| 01:11:56 |
...regulating climate |
| 01:12:01 |
Life on land |
| 01:12:05 |
I finally realized |
| 01:12:09 |
...it's about saving ourselves. |
| 01:12:15 |
There was nothing I could do |
| 01:12:18 |
...but shark finning |
| 01:12:21 |
If I could get back |
| 01:12:24 |
...maybe I could finally |
| 01:12:26 |
...and do something |
| 01:12:30 |
I lay there, |
| 01:12:33 |
...and after a week it did. |
| 01:12:36 |
The infection subsided |
| 01:12:41 |
I think the problem is... |
| 01:12:43 |
...that we don't really understand |
| 01:12:46 |
In essence, |
| 01:12:50 |
...just a conceited naked ape... |
| 01:12:52 |
...but in our minds |
| 01:12:55 |
...and we see ourselves |
| 01:12:59 |
...that we can walk around the Earth |
| 01:13:03 |
...and what will be destroyed |
| 01:13:06 |
But the fact is, we're just a bunch |
| 01:13:30 |
We're now in the midst |
| 01:13:33 |
...but this time |
| 01:13:35 |
...and the objective is to save |
| 01:13:38 |
There is no hope |
| 01:13:41 |
...to do anything. |
| 01:13:43 |
They never have, they never will. |
| 01:13:45 |
All social change comes |
| 01:13:49 |
...of individuals |
| 01:13:53 |
Slavery wasn't ended |
| 01:13:56 |
Women got the right to vote... |
| 01:13:59 |
...not because of any government. |
| 01:14:02 |
The civil-rights movement, |
| 01:14:06 |
India with Mahatma Gandhi, |
| 01:14:10 |
Again, it's always individuals. |
| 01:14:12 |
You need those individuals... |
| 01:14:14 |
...with the passion and the energy |
| 01:14:16 |
In fact, I don't know... |
| 01:14:18 |
...of any governments or institutions... |
| 01:14:20 |
...that are doing anything |
| 01:14:24 |
All over the world, though, |
| 01:14:26 |
...and non-government organizations |
| 01:14:29 |
...in protecting ecosystems |
| 01:14:33 |
...and that's where I see |
| 01:14:35 |
...that's where results |
| 01:14:58 |
Okay... |
| 01:15:00 |
...here we go. |
| 01:15:01 |
As soon as I was let out |
| 01:15:05 |
I started making my way |
| 01:15:08 |
Costa Rica was the last place |
| 01:15:12 |
I would be arrested immediately... |
| 01:15:14 |
...if they found out I was there. |
| 01:15:17 |
So I had to sneak in. |
| 01:15:19 |
I took a boat |
| 01:15:22 |
...to mainland Ecuador. |
| 01:15:23 |
My friends in Costa Rica... |
| 01:15:25 |
...told me not to fly back |
| 01:15:29 |
...that I'd be caught if I did. |
| 01:15:35 |
I had to avoid any major ports... |
| 01:15:38 |
...the police and the Coast Guard. |
| 01:15:40 |
Even if I made it to the coast... |
| 01:15:42 |
I'd also have to avoid |
| 01:15:52 |
To avoid capture... |
| 01:15:54 |
I travelled overland for days... |
| 01:15:56 |
...using public transportation |
| 01:15:58 |
...to get back into the country. |
| 01:16:01 |
Still going, this bus? |
| 01:16:03 |
I only narrowly escaped arrest |
| 01:16:07 |
...but I had to find a way in... |
| 01:16:09 |
...and find a way |
| 01:16:18 |
Avoiding arrest and staying |
| 01:16:21 |
I made it to the coast... |
| 01:16:24 |
...and entered Puntarenas. |
| 01:16:33 |
Instead of the shark-fin Mafia |
| 01:16:37 |
...there were protests |
| 01:16:41 |
Costa Ricans were rallying |
| 01:16:45 |
The publicity surrounding our case |
| 01:16:48 |
...into the spotlight. |
| 01:16:50 |
We hadn't totally failed |
| 01:16:54 |
We helped awaken a country |
| 01:16:58 |
Costa Ricans were outraged; |
| 01:17:00 |
...they held protests |
| 01:17:04 |
...and spoke out |
| 01:17:07 |
The world had started |
| 01:17:24 |
The police were busy |
| 01:17:27 |
...and the Mafia was in hiding. |
| 01:17:31 |
Now I knew I could make it to Cocos |
| 01:17:42 |
I found my friends |
| 01:18:02 |
Returning underwater... |
| 01:18:04 |
...finally I could swim |
| 01:18:08 |
...in one of the last places on Earth |
| 01:18:14 |
Free diving... |
| 01:18:17 |
I hold my breath and stay calm... |
| 01:18:19 |
...so they're not afraid of me. |
| 01:18:27 |
Ever since I was a kid... |
| 01:18:29 |
I've loved sharks. |
| 01:18:36 |
They taught me about life... |
| 01:18:38 |
...and that fear |
| 01:18:42 |
...and it wasn't real. |
| 01:18:48 |
Sharks have been here |
| 01:18:51 |
...when there was only primitive life |
| 01:18:54 |
...and the land was mostly desert. |
| 01:18:59 |
They were the top predator... |
| 01:19:01 |
...influencing any animal to evolve |
| 01:19:08 |
Sharks have been gods... |
| 01:19:10 |
...for 400 million years... |
| 01:19:13 |
...shaping this world... |
| 01:19:14 |
...for the entire history |
| 01:19:24 |
Seeing them again... |
| 01:19:25 |
I knew that they're almost gone. |
| 01:19:31 |
The killing of sharks... |
| 01:19:32 |
...is the biggest ecological time bomb |
| 01:19:36 |
We have to understand |
| 01:19:39 |
...top predator on this planet, |
| 01:19:42 |
...so that tells you something. |
| 01:19:45 |
Now human beings just... |
| 01:19:47 |
...they kill 100 million, 200 million. |
| 01:19:50 |
"Sharks are a nuisance, |
| 01:19:53 |
...let's kill 'em all. " |
| 01:19:56 |
...we destroy all food chains |
| 01:19:59 |
...and, well, the majority of our oxygen |
| 01:20:02 |
...so we should be more careful. |
| 01:20:04 |
There is no species on this planet |
| 01:20:07 |
...by ignoring |
| 01:20:09 |
...and we're now breaking those basic laws |
| 01:20:13 |
...and that's going to mean our own demise |
| 01:20:18 |
...unless we learn to live harmoniously |
| 01:20:21 |
Future generations |
| 01:20:24 |
...and they're gonna think of us |
| 01:20:28 |
...the same way |
| 01:20:31 |
That they're gonna look at us |
| 01:20:36 |
...the fact that we're burning |
| 01:20:39 |
...in a few generations, |
| 01:20:42 |
...that we've driven species |
| 01:20:44 |
And worse - This is the worst part - |
| 01:20:48 |
The scientists know, |
| 01:20:49 |
...the companies know |
| 01:20:52 |
...and yet we're allowing ourselves |
| 01:20:57 |
Sharks have lived |
| 01:21:00 |
...as the top predator. |
| 01:21:04 |
Now we are the top predator... |
| 01:21:07 |
...deciding which species we'll use... |
| 01:21:10 |
...and which we'll destroy. |
| 01:21:13 |
I wonder if we've evolved enough... |
| 01:21:16 |
...to survive as they have. |
| 01:21:22 |
We depend on the oceans |
| 01:21:26 |
...the oceans that sharks control. |
| 01:21:33 |
If we lose sharks... |
| 01:21:35 |
...we'll disrupt the oxygen |
| 01:21:42 |
We've only been here |
| 01:21:45 |
...and in the last 100 years... |
| 01:21:47 |
...we've greatly impacted |
| 01:21:52 |
But we also have the power |
| 01:22:01 |
People in Costa Rica |
| 01:22:05 |
They were rallying for life... |
| 01:22:10 |
...and for us. |
