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SiNCRONiZACiON POR
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SEPTiCEMiA TEAM - GMTeam
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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
and mysterious animal on Earth.
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I thought if I studied them,
I could learn about life.
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About balance in the ocean
and how to survive on Earth.
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That the one animal
that we fear the most
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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
who enter the ocean,
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the very symbol
of lurking danger:
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That is the shark.
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What is he really?
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We know little,
except the shark was here
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before the continents
took their present form,
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before the dinosaur lived,
and he is still here,
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essentially unchanged.
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One of the oldest living things
on Earth.
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How has the shark survived,
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when almost all that lived
in the beginnings
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has either perished or changed?
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Man must know all there is to know
about this enemy.
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Whether the shark
is really an enemy.
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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,
since you're a kid,
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sharks are dangerous.
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You're warned about venturing
too far into the ocean,
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but then finally
you're underwater,
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and you see the thing
you were taught
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your whole life to fear,
and it's perfect,
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and it doesn't want to hurt you,
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and it's the most beautiful thing
you've ever seen,
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and your whole world changes.
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Ever since I was little,
I've loved the ocean.
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Like many kids,
I tried fishing,
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but realized I was much happier
swimming with fish than catching them.
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Sharks were my favourite animals
on Earth,
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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
and realized the only way
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to find out the truth about sharks
was to meet one for myself.
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I became
an underwater photographer
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and a biologist,
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and from that point on,
I followed sharks.
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So little is known
about what they really are
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and how important they are
to life on Earth.
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Two-thirds of the world's surface
is water,
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and over 80�/� of life on Earth
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lives in the ocean.
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I learned to dive
so I could get close to sharks,
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but photographing sharks
was harder than I thought.
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They're so afraid of us.
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Sharks can see us
with more than their eyes.
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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
for more than 400 million years,
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150 million years
before the dinosaurs,
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when life had just begun on land.
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There was little oxygen
in the atmosphere,
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and only two continents.
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Sharks were shaping this world.
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Life on Earth
evolved from the sea.
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The first animals were tiny,
single-celled organisms
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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,
including squids and mollusks.
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One of the first vertebrates
with jaws,
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and the only large animal
that's remained unchanged
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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
have been shaped by their predators,
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the sharks,
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giving rise to schooling behaviour,
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camouflage, speed,
size and communication.
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Sharks control
the populations below them,
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eliminating species
that were easy prey
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and creating new ones.
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Even though sharks
have very few young
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and take up to 25 years
to reach sexual maturity,
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they've managed to survive
through five major extinctions
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that wiped most life
from the planet.
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They're architects of our world.
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Most of what people
know about sharks
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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
nothing like what we're told.
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They are perfect predators
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that hold the underwater world
in balance,
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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
to film them.
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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
enemies of man.
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He is a wicked,
unpredictable opponent.
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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
of preventing attacks
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are directing a stream of bubbles
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from your life preserver
in his direction.
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Tearing up paper
into small pieces
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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
or damage the raft,
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do not try to shoot or knife him.
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Chances are you would only
slightly injure and infuriate him.
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Remember,
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his front end
is practically all mouth.
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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,
if you use your head.
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- Elephants kill more people
each year than sharks do,
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so there's some deep-seated
psychological revulsion
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about a cold-eyed monster
coming out of the deep
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and picking you to pieces,
but that is the myth, not the reality.
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- It's weird that white sharks
have such a bad reputation,
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because they really hardly bite.
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If we go into the statistics,
they are not the ones
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who bite the most.
Definitely not.
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And it's very hard, actually,
to approach a white shark.
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It's much easier to repel him
than to actually lure him in,
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bring him in,
and then trying to interact.
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So I think the main reason
why people are still afraid
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of a white shark
is based on the movie Jaws,
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and the misconception
is still floating around.
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And I think a big part
of the media still tries
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to present the white shark
as Jaws.
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- Three people were hurt Saturday
in another shark attack.
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- Time magazine is calling
it the "Summer of the Shark. "
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- And of course the question
being asked by some is:
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When will it be safe
to return to the water?
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- We love to have a monster,
we love to hate. So...
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And it's not good television
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if, you know, this monster
that we presented all these years
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actually is a very shy, hesitant animal
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that has a hard time,
like any other animal as well.
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So we like to have the monster,
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and that's why
it's still portrayed this way.
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I was on an assignment,
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photographing
the Galapagos Islands,
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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
found nowhere else on Earth.
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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
is the whole planet was like this.
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I think animals
were amazingly abundant;
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I think whales
were amazingly abundant,
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fish were amazingly abundant;
turtles, birds, everything,
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before man got in there
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and really hacked
the whole thing to pieces.
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- I travelled 160 miles
from the centre of the Galapagos
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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
congregate in schools.
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We're just getting ready
to go in for a dive
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where there's supposed to be
congregating hammerhead sharks.
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The undersea currents come up,
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bringing nutrient-rich water
to the surface,
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which causes a ton
of tiny plankton feeders to school here,
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and the hammerhead sharks
come up as well,
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and they circle in the current
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and go back down at night
to feed on squid.
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So we're gonna go down
to maybe 130 feet
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and see if we can find
some schooling hammerhead sharks,
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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
reserves on Earth,
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where sharks
are cherished and protected.
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Hammerheads are some
of the most misunderstood species.
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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
running along the sides of their bodies,
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that can detect movement
in the water.
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Their heads
are a giant sensory system
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that detects electro-magnetic fields,
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enabling them to find food
that's hidden from view
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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
anywhere near me.
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Hammerheads use
the Earth's magnetic field
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to follow undersea ridges
like road maps,
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navigating thousands of miles
through the oceans.
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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
of mostly females,
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with the largest vying
for position in the centre,
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where the males come
to look for mates.
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Dominant females,
which can be 12 feet long,
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control their position in the school
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using aggressive displays,
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pushing subordinate females
to the fringes.
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The schools break up at night,
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when they descend
into deeper water to feed.
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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
in the Atlantic Ocean in 2006.
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The shape of their head
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makes them one of the most
manoeuvrable and feared sharks.
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But the truth is,
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there's no record
of a hammerhead shark
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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
to outer space.
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The boats fled,
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because long-line fishing
is illegal in the Galapagos,
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and we were left with the lines.
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I hopped in the water
as soon as I could
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and brought my cameras in
and tried to film,
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whatever I could find
on the long lines,
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and we swam for probably
two or three kilometres,
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pulling ourselves along the lines,
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and unclipping
every baited hook we could find.
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The first fish I found
was a seven-foot-long sailfish,
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and it was dead.
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It suffocated because it wrapped itself
up in the long line.
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So it couldn't keep swimming
to keep breathing.
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Farther along the line,
I found a dorado.
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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
attached to it.
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I slowly pulled myself close
so I wouldn't scare it,
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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
and suffocate.
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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
was dying.
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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
in the surface waters
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are interested
in those baited hooks,
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so take the hooks
and subsequently get caught.
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And they may or may not be
what the fisherman are looking for,
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and things like leatherback turtles
or some marine mammals
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can simply get entangled
in that line of gear.
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There are more selective ways
of fishing,
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there's a lot of waste
that goes on out there.
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And I think one of the big reasons
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it continues to go on,
is because we don't see it.
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- We know that predators
are fundamental in controlling
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the structure and the functioning
of the ecosystems.
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So basically if you cut off
the head of the ecosystem,
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if you wish,
the top species,
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the top carnivores that control
a lot of the processes
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lower down in the food web,
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you're removing a really important
controlling agent,
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and that could cause upheaval
in the lower tropic levels
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like the plants
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and the zooplankton.
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The ocean is basically
the life-support system
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of the planet.
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To change
that life-support system
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in any major way
is a risky thing.
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We know from the past
that when oceans have changed
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that life on Earth has changed.
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- I needed to know
why people were killing sharks,
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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
to make a film about them,
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but they were gone.
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In places where I'd always
found hundreds of sharks,
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I only found a few.
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Shark populations have been decimated
all over the world
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and the last sharks
were being hunted down
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in the few remaining sanctuaries.
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Nobody noticed.
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Everyone wanted to save pandas,
elephants and bears,
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and the world
was afraid of sharks.
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- I read this story
about this boy who was 13, in Japan,
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and got swallowed whole.
It didn't even bite him,
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it just swallowed him.
Yeah?
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- And they cut out
and they found his body.
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And it wasn't even bit,
and that's scary.
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So if you're not seeing sharks here,
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why are you so afraid
of the water?
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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
of being bitten by a shark?
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They must be so small.
- No, not really.
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- No, it's small. I've never seen
a shark here in my life.
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- I've never heard
of anywhere else
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getting bit by sharks
as much as here.
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That's true.
322
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- Not even in Daytona.
Here is like the worst.
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- Sharks rarely bite human beings,
but never because they're hungry,
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and say, "Ah, look,
there's something juicy over there. "
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They try to figure out what we are.
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They don't know what we are,
so they explore us.
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On the very rare occasions
they come that close,
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they actually can just do
an exploratory bite
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and that's why the majority of all bites
are very, very superficial.
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You hardly have
really serious bites.
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So that tells us something,
60 to 100 bites every year
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out of these millions and millions
of encounters
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that we have with these animals.
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So just based on that,
sharks cannot be dangerous.
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People think: Well, they're dumb,
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they're stupid.
That's not true.
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Their intelligence is quite amazing.
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They have short-term memories,
long-term memories,
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they can learn by observation.
340
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So nothing is stupid or primitive
in these animals.
341
00:22:06,691 --> 00:22:10,354
So all the ideas,
well, they just follow a blood trail,
342
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they just bite everything that is shiny.
343
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Well, pretty quick you realize,
hey, that is all wrong.
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- In just one year,
crocodiles around the world
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wiped out as many people
as sharks have killed
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over the past 100.
347
00:22:40,458 --> 00:22:42,392
The crocodile is protected.
348
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No?
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The sharks not?
350
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Yeah?
351
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Yeah?
352
00:23:03,381 --> 00:23:04,814
So I should not...
353
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Like, it's not a good idea
to go swimming with sharks?
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- They're the scourge of the ocean
and everyone should go and catch one.
355
00:23:22,867 --> 00:23:25,597
All the greens can come around
and say that these things,
356
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"Let 'em live, let' em live. " Okay?
We can live on land too,
357
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but we don't go out there
and bite the bums off them, do we?
358
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But they come in here and get us.
359
00:23:34,312 --> 00:23:37,247
How bad
is the shark as a predator?
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You make it sound
as though it really is a direct threat
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to human beings
who dare swim in the water.
362
00:23:44,021 --> 00:23:46,012
- Well, you try swimming,
with a shark like that
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in 8 feet of water
and you'll find out,
364
00:23:48,426 --> 00:23:51,725
because we got no hope,
if they decide to eat us.
365
00:23:51,796 --> 00:23:54,731
But don't you think
that one effect of you going out
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and capturing sharks
and talking this way
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is that you bring about
an hysteria in people,
368
00:23:59,070 --> 00:24:00,401
they're going to panic?
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00:24:00,471 --> 00:24:02,132
No, I've saved a lot of lives.
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00:24:02,206 --> 00:24:05,607
If it wasn't for me
and what I've done in the last 25 years,
371
00:24:05,676 --> 00:24:07,337
there'd be a lot more people killed.
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00:24:21,525 --> 00:24:24,756
- The fact is,
sharks do not eat people.
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If they did, I would've been eaten
a long time ago.
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00:24:31,068 --> 00:24:34,697
Most sharks have teeth
which are ineffective cutting tools,
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00:24:34,772 --> 00:24:37,172
and can't effectively remove flesh
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00:24:37,241 --> 00:24:39,709
from something larger
than their mouths.
377
00:24:39,777 --> 00:24:41,768
One hundred needles in your leg
378
00:24:41,846 --> 00:24:45,247
would have a tough time
removing a chunk of flesh.
379
00:24:45,316 --> 00:24:48,342
Most sharks lack
the equipment they'd need
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to go after large animals like us,
and they know that.
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00:24:52,757 --> 00:24:55,726
They've evolved
to eat certain prey items,
382
00:24:55,793 --> 00:24:58,057
and most sharks are picky eaters.
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00:24:59,630 --> 00:25:01,495
They won't bother wasting energy
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00:25:01,565 --> 00:25:04,728
going after something
they know they can't eat efficiently.
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00:25:06,437 --> 00:25:08,496
When a shark mistake does happen,
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00:25:08,572 --> 00:25:12,406
the person inevitably
ends up back on shore.
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00:25:13,944 --> 00:25:15,377
In most shark attacks,
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00:25:15,446 --> 00:25:17,437
flesh is never removed.
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00:25:17,515 --> 00:25:20,211
Even in the odd case
where someone dies,
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it's usually because of blood loss,
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00:25:22,753 --> 00:25:25,187
not because the shark
ate the person.
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00:25:25,256 --> 00:25:28,555
A twelve-foot
or even a six-foot fish
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00:25:28,626 --> 00:25:31,561
could do anything it wanted
to a human,
394
00:25:31,629 --> 00:25:33,062
and they don't.
395
00:25:33,130 --> 00:25:36,691
It's a huge testament
to sharks' sensory systems
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00:25:36,767 --> 00:25:38,860
how few people
are attacked each year.
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00:25:38,936 --> 00:25:42,337
You wouldn't go for a run
next to a pride of lions,
398
00:25:42,406 --> 00:25:45,273
but we do this with sharks
all the time.
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00:25:45,343 --> 00:25:47,937
There are millions of people
entering the water every year
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00:25:48,012 --> 00:25:49,775
in areas where sharks hunt,
401
00:25:49,847 --> 00:25:52,008
and very few people are bitten.
402
00:25:52,083 --> 00:25:54,711
If they wanted to eat us,
they would.
403
00:26:00,925 --> 00:26:04,019
The mythology about sharks
has traditionally been,
404
00:26:04,095 --> 00:26:07,030
uh, they're kind of
the embodiment of evil
405
00:26:07,098 --> 00:26:10,033
and they have sharp teeth
and they kill people.
406
00:26:10,101 --> 00:26:14,868
But the fact is,
people used to think of whales that way,
407
00:26:14,939 --> 00:26:18,397
whales used to be
dangerous Leviathans.
408
00:26:18,476 --> 00:26:20,808
I mean,
just read Moby Dick, you know.
409
00:26:20,878 --> 00:26:23,574
Moby Dick was portrayed
by Captain Ahab
410
00:26:23,647 --> 00:26:26,377
as being a monster of the deep.
411
00:26:26,450 --> 00:26:28,384
You know, a man hunter.
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00:26:32,857 --> 00:26:34,722
But everything in the environment,
413
00:26:34,792 --> 00:26:37,090
everything that exists,
eats something else.
414
00:26:50,341 --> 00:26:52,809
We tend to be afraid
of spiders and snakes,
415
00:26:52,877 --> 00:26:55,345
but, you know,
we love puppy dogs and seals.
416
00:26:57,581 --> 00:27:01,210
Once people see whales or sharks
in a different light,
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00:27:01,285 --> 00:27:03,082
they can change their mind.
418
00:27:03,154 --> 00:27:04,587
These are beautiful creatures,
419
00:27:04,655 --> 00:27:06,680
absolutely beautiful creatures
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00:27:06,757 --> 00:27:10,215
that have every right in the world
to live on this planet.
421
00:27:58,509 --> 00:28:01,376
- I went to all the major
conservation organizations
422
00:28:01,445 --> 00:28:06,405
and there was virtually no one
doing anything to save sharks.
423
00:28:06,484 --> 00:28:08,475
- Are you really concerned
or you just wanna call names?
424
00:28:08,552 --> 00:28:09,951
- Oh, / am very concerned,
extremely concerned.
425
00:28:10,020 --> 00:28:12,682
- Well, then, let's see some action
instead of all of this whining.
426
00:28:12,756 --> 00:28:15,156
Then I met up with Paul Watson.
427
00:28:15,226 --> 00:28:16,921
What is my type, sir?
428
00:28:16,994 --> 00:28:19,724
- The renegade
of the conservation movement.
429
00:28:21,432 --> 00:28:24,265
He sunk a whole Norwegian
whaling fleet
430
00:28:24,335 --> 00:28:27,964
and ended pirate whaling
in the North Atlantic
431
00:28:28,038 --> 00:28:30,336
when no one else could.
432
00:28:30,407 --> 00:28:33,001
Paul was one of the original
activists in Greenpeace
433
00:28:33,077 --> 00:28:36,274
and he's been at war against poaching
for 30 years.
434
00:28:36,347 --> 00:28:38,508
- I set up the Sea Shepherd
Conservation Society in 1977
435
00:28:38,582 --> 00:28:40,914
as an organization
to intervene directly
436
00:28:40,985 --> 00:28:44,113
to uphold international conservation
laws, regulations and treaties,
437
00:28:44,188 --> 00:28:46,918
so it's not a protest organization,
438
00:28:46,991 --> 00:28:50,119
but an organization
to really fill a vacuum,
439
00:28:50,194 --> 00:28:54,528
because there really is no enforcement
agencies anywhere in the world
440
00:28:54,598 --> 00:28:57,431
to uphold these international
laws and treaties.
441
00:29:04,174 --> 00:29:06,301
They're trying to sink the ship;
442
00:29:06,377 --> 00:29:08,072
they are trying to sink the ship.
443
00:29:08,145 --> 00:29:11,581
- So part of the role of the activist,
like Paul Watson, is:
444
00:29:11,649 --> 00:29:13,947
"Don't let them get away with it,
445
00:29:14,018 --> 00:29:16,350
or make 'em do it in the light of day. "
446
00:29:16,420 --> 00:29:17,751
He's a hero,
447
00:29:17,821 --> 00:29:20,551
someone who just does
448
00:29:20,624 --> 00:29:23,354
what the politicians
haven't got the guts to do.
449
00:29:23,427 --> 00:29:24,985
Captain Paul Watson
450
00:29:25,062 --> 00:29:26,962
leads possibly the most violent,
451
00:29:27,031 --> 00:29:30,228
and radical, green movement
in the world.
452
00:29:30,301 --> 00:29:33,668
- Well, if you kill anybody,
I'm holding you personally responsible.
453
00:29:33,737 --> 00:29:37,468
You have no authority over us,
we're in international waters. Over.
454
00:29:37,541 --> 00:29:39,736
Move aside, get 'em!
455
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,579
Launched from the gunboat,
police attack Sea Shepherd
456
00:29:46,650 --> 00:29:49,847
with tear gas bullets
and tear gas canisters.
457
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:54,789
It's the first time in history
that an unarmed conservation vessel
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00:29:54,858 --> 00:29:56,792
has been fired at.
459
00:29:59,063 --> 00:30:02,191
- No, really what we're here to do
is to, you know,
460
00:30:02,266 --> 00:30:05,895
to rock the boat, to make noise;
to make people think.
461
00:30:05,970 --> 00:30:07,938
That's really the main objective
462
00:30:08,005 --> 00:30:09,973
of the Sea Shepherd
Conservation Society.
463
00:30:13,777 --> 00:30:16,041
Why aren't you people
doing anything?
464
00:30:19,717 --> 00:30:21,548
The only violence
that's being committed
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00:30:21,619 --> 00:30:23,211
is the illegal slaughter of whales,
466
00:30:23,287 --> 00:30:27,018
and that is violent
and that is the crime. Over.
467
00:30:42,306 --> 00:30:44,399
- Paul and Sea Shepherd
were launching a campaign
468
00:30:44,475 --> 00:30:48,935
against poaching in two of the world's
last sanctuaries for sharks:
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00:30:49,013 --> 00:30:50,844
The Galapagos, Ecuador,
470
00:30:50,914 --> 00:30:54,077
and in Cocos, Costa Rica.
471
00:30:55,953 --> 00:30:58,513
Cocos is a tiny island
in the middle of the Pacific,
472
00:30:58,589 --> 00:31:01,820
360 miles from Costa Rica.
473
00:31:01,892 --> 00:31:05,055
It's a national park
and a world heritage site
474
00:31:05,129 --> 00:31:08,428
with the greatest concentration
of sharks in the world.
475
00:31:10,934 --> 00:31:13,494
But Costa Rica has no money
to protect it,
476
00:31:13,570 --> 00:31:15,561
and poachers
raid the waters every day.
477
00:31:15,639 --> 00:31:18,233
No, it's been cut in the head!
478
00:31:18,308 --> 00:31:19,832
The sharks were being wiped out.
479
00:31:19,910 --> 00:31:22,777
Well, Jesus Christ,
put it out of its misery.
480
00:31:31,388 --> 00:31:35,290
- So the President of Costa Rica
asked Sea Shepherd for help.
481
00:31:36,794 --> 00:31:39,092
Why, it's illegal as well.
482
00:31:39,163 --> 00:31:42,132
- Paul was my kinda guy,
the only one I knew
483
00:31:42,199 --> 00:31:45,430
who was doing anything
to save sharks.
484
00:31:45,502 --> 00:31:49,871
He asked me to join the campaign
to stop the illegal fishing of sharks.
485
00:31:49,940 --> 00:31:51,237
Okay.
486
00:31:53,877 --> 00:31:55,742
I joined Paul in Los Angeles
487
00:31:55,813 --> 00:31:58,509
aboard the Sea Shepherd ship,
the Ocean Warrior,
488
00:31:58,582 --> 00:32:00,607
and we started our journey south,
489
00:32:00,684 --> 00:32:03,744
3,000 miles to Costa Rica.
490
00:32:06,223 --> 00:32:10,057
They repaint and rename the boat
on every new campaign
491
00:32:10,127 --> 00:32:13,255
to avoid being recognized
by the poachers.
492
00:32:13,330 --> 00:32:17,391
The Ocean Warrior has been
in battle against poachers
493
00:32:17,468 --> 00:32:20,198
dozens of times
and proudly displays its kill flags,
494
00:32:20,270 --> 00:32:23,933
the flags of boats it has rammed
or sunk, on the side of the ship.
495
00:32:24,007 --> 00:32:26,134
It's equipped with a can opener,
496
00:32:26,210 --> 00:32:27,734
a hydraulic steel blade
497
00:32:27,811 --> 00:32:30,473
that extends from the side of the boat
in case of battle.
498
00:32:33,984 --> 00:32:38,785
We traveled south on the open ocean
for 12 days straight.
499
00:32:42,159 --> 00:32:46,118
2,500 miles from Los Angeles
and 50 miles inside Guatemalan waters,
500
00:32:46,196 --> 00:32:49,495
we found a pirate long-lining boat
illegally poaching sharks.
501
00:32:49,566 --> 00:32:53,525
Doesn't take much
to catch illegal fishing around here,
502
00:32:53,604 --> 00:32:55,037
I'll tell ya.
503
00:32:55,105 --> 00:32:56,504
Jesus Christ,
504
00:32:56,573 --> 00:32:58,063
they're going slower.
505
00:32:59,510 --> 00:33:03,412
The Varadero was from Costa Rica
and had no permit
506
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:07,041
to fish outside of Costa Rica
or inside Guatemala.
507
00:33:07,117 --> 00:33:08,482
Which way?
508
00:33:08,552 --> 00:33:10,213
We radioed Guatemala,
509
00:33:10,287 --> 00:33:13,222
who asked us to escort the boat
into port for arrest.
510
00:33:14,792 --> 00:33:17,818
We asked that they bring in their lines
and release any sharks
511
00:33:17,895 --> 00:33:19,863
that were caught,
512
00:33:19,930 --> 00:33:21,227
but they weren't releasing
the sharks.
513
00:33:21,298 --> 00:33:23,926
They're not answering?
514
00:33:24,001 --> 00:33:26,162
We were racing them to the lines;
515
00:33:26,236 --> 00:33:29,728
every time they got ahead of us,
they killed more sharks.
516
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,476
- All these boats,
from many countries,
517
00:33:33,544 --> 00:33:35,705
when they go fishing -
518
00:33:35,779 --> 00:33:38,612
and that's actually
everywhere in the world -
519
00:33:38,682 --> 00:33:41,344
all they want is profit.
520
00:33:41,418 --> 00:33:43,079
Once they've left port,
521
00:33:43,153 --> 00:33:46,213
it's like the ocean is a free place;
522
00:33:46,290 --> 00:33:48,724
you do what you want out there.
523
00:33:48,792 --> 00:33:51,056
They got another shark!
524
00:33:51,128 --> 00:33:52,755
Got a shark?
525
00:33:52,830 --> 00:33:55,128
Tell that guy
to release that shark.
526
00:33:55,199 --> 00:33:58,532
Tell him that if he doesn't release
those sharks,
527
00:33:58,602 --> 00:34:00,866
we're gonna sink his line.
528
00:34:02,773 --> 00:34:05,367
Hey, Rob, did you get a picture
of that shark?
529
00:34:05,442 --> 00:34:09,037
If he doesn't stop,
we'll run up ahead and grab the line.
530
00:34:09,112 --> 00:34:11,410
Actually hold on,
I'm gonna stop right here.
531
00:34:22,626 --> 00:34:26,084
Bring it up to the bow and see
if you can get it on the winch.
532
00:34:29,166 --> 00:34:30,929
Got their line?
Grab the line.
533
00:34:31,001 --> 00:34:33,902
If you can grab the line on...
Where's the next one?
534
00:34:35,305 --> 00:34:38,240
Get it? Goddamn,
as fast as we get up to it,
535
00:34:38,308 --> 00:34:39,775
they're pulling it off.
536
00:34:39,843 --> 00:34:43,074
- They wouldn't stop
killing sharks.
537
00:34:43,146 --> 00:34:46,411
The sharks were incredibly
important to them.
538
00:34:52,756 --> 00:34:55,452
They were killing them
for their fins.
539
00:34:57,261 --> 00:34:59,661
Shark-fin soup
is a symbol of wealth
540
00:34:59,730 --> 00:35:02,824
and served as a sign of respect.
541
00:35:02,900 --> 00:35:05,300
The soup has been around
for centuries,
542
00:35:05,369 --> 00:35:09,533
but only in the last two decades
has it boomed in popularity.
543
00:35:09,606 --> 00:35:11,369
The fin is tasteless,
544
00:35:11,441 --> 00:35:15,571
adding only texture to a soup
flavoured with chicken or pork broth.
545
00:35:15,646 --> 00:35:17,944
It became a status symbol,
546
00:35:18,015 --> 00:35:19,880
served at weddings, banquets,
547
00:35:19,950 --> 00:35:21,281
and expensive dinners.
548
00:35:21,351 --> 00:35:24,149
A single pound of fin
is worth more than $200 US,
549
00:35:24,221 --> 00:35:26,689
and the shark-fin industry
550
00:35:26,757 --> 00:35:29,225
is a billion-dollar juggernaut.
551
00:35:29,293 --> 00:35:32,456
Every year,
an estimated 30 to 70 million sharks
552
00:35:32,529 --> 00:35:35,123
are killed to support
a growing worldwide trade
553
00:35:35,198 --> 00:35:38,167
in their fins and other products.
554
00:35:38,235 --> 00:35:40,931
But the biggest prize is the shark fin.
555
00:35:41,004 --> 00:35:42,972
Half a world away,
in Hong Kong and China,
556
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,803
shark-fin soup is a delicacy.
557
00:35:44,875 --> 00:35:47,002
It sells for up to $90 a bowl.
558
00:35:47,077 --> 00:35:49,204
It's a royal food;
559
00:35:49,279 --> 00:35:51,144
it's the food of the emperors.
560
00:35:51,214 --> 00:35:53,341
They make a soup out of the fins,
561
00:35:53,417 --> 00:35:55,817
and any Chinese chef
that's worth his weight
562
00:35:55,886 --> 00:35:58,582
has to be able to make
great shark-fin soup,
563
00:35:58,655 --> 00:36:01,886
as strange as that may seem,
and this is causing the demise
564
00:36:01,959 --> 00:36:04,120
of the populations of sharks
in the ocean.
565
00:36:22,746 --> 00:36:24,213
The word was out
566
00:36:24,281 --> 00:36:25,839
that fins meant money,
567
00:36:25,916 --> 00:36:28,441
and sharks were being killed
solely for their fins
568
00:36:28,518 --> 00:36:30,509
in virtually every country
with a coastline.
569
00:36:41,832 --> 00:36:44,562
There's so much money in fins,
570
00:36:44,634 --> 00:36:47,831
that only trafficking drugs
rivals fins for profit.
571
00:37:05,422 --> 00:37:09,415
- People thousands of years from now,
if we manage to survive,
572
00:37:09,493 --> 00:37:12,394
aren't gonna have much respect
for cultures
573
00:37:12,462 --> 00:37:16,091
that deprived them of the things
that we now have
574
00:37:16,166 --> 00:37:17,633
that diminish their world for them.
575
00:37:17,701 --> 00:37:20,693
They're not gonna have any respect
for those cultures at all,
576
00:37:20,771 --> 00:37:24,036
just as we don't have any respect
for the culture of slavery.
577
00:37:31,615 --> 00:37:35,381
- For the first time
in over 400 million years,
578
00:37:35,452 --> 00:37:37,079
sharks were prey.
579
00:37:45,395 --> 00:37:47,693
They were even killing whale sharks.
580
00:37:53,603 --> 00:37:55,366
The largest fish on Earth
581
00:37:55,439 --> 00:37:58,704
that eats only microscopic plankton
and has no teeth.
582
00:38:05,082 --> 00:38:09,348
They are the gentle giants
that roam the warm waters of the world
583
00:38:09,419 --> 00:38:11,353
following plankton blooms.
584
00:38:24,601 --> 00:38:27,365
We know nothing
about their life cycles,
585
00:38:27,437 --> 00:38:29,029
where they mate,
586
00:38:29,106 --> 00:38:31,165
or how long they live,
587
00:38:31,241 --> 00:38:34,233
though they're thought
to live as long as us.
588
00:38:42,319 --> 00:38:45,015
And now the whale shark,
along with their relatives,
589
00:38:45,088 --> 00:38:48,649
the great white shark
and the basking shark,
590
00:38:48,725 --> 00:38:50,352
are endangered.
591
00:39:13,617 --> 00:39:15,517
A large fin like this
592
00:39:15,585 --> 00:39:19,180
can now sell
for more than $10,000 in China,
593
00:39:19,256 --> 00:39:22,191
and conservationists say
the growing trade in shark fin
594
00:39:22,259 --> 00:39:25,592
has become a serious threat
not only to whale sharks,
595
00:39:25,662 --> 00:39:28,688
but also to other shark species
almost everywhere.
596
00:39:28,765 --> 00:39:30,665
By the time it gets to Asia,
597
00:39:30,734 --> 00:39:35,262
it's gonna be up to $200 US a pound
for the dry shark fin.
598
00:39:35,338 --> 00:39:38,364
So it goes from 80 cents here
to a myriad of middlemen,
599
00:39:38,441 --> 00:39:41,069
ending up at $200 US
from 80 cents,
600
00:39:41,144 --> 00:39:43,442
so it's a magical little process
601
00:39:43,513 --> 00:39:46,846
that we've gotta figure out
how it gets there.
602
00:39:46,917 --> 00:39:49,715
Yeah, it's the fin, fish.
603
00:39:49,786 --> 00:39:53,620
They make some kind of pills
of a shark fin.
604
00:39:53,690 --> 00:39:58,059
- In Asia, they think
because sharks don't get sick
605
00:39:58,128 --> 00:40:00,722
as easily as other animals do
606
00:40:00,797 --> 00:40:04,289
that sharks
have some magical power to heal,
607
00:40:04,367 --> 00:40:06,961
and it's all false information
608
00:40:07,037 --> 00:40:10,097
because sharks get cancer,
sharks get problems.
609
00:40:13,810 --> 00:40:16,142
- He doesn't want us to film.
- Not allowed to film?
610
00:40:16,213 --> 00:40:18,875
He tells us to leave.
611
00:40:18,949 --> 00:40:21,509
Uh, we just went in restaurant
Lun Fung and got kicked out.
612
00:40:21,585 --> 00:40:24,110
They do serve shark fin,
you can get it in a takeout form.
613
00:40:24,187 --> 00:40:27,179
You can even go to pharmacies
to buy shark fin in pill form,
614
00:40:27,257 --> 00:40:29,122
because of its powers
to make you strong.
615
00:40:29,192 --> 00:40:31,990
That shows you the misconceptions
everyone has about sharks,
616
00:40:32,062 --> 00:40:35,156
that they think because sharks
are resilient to some parasites,
617
00:40:35,232 --> 00:40:38,668
and they don't get sick
as often as people do,
618
00:40:38,735 --> 00:40:42,466
that if you eat sharks
that power's gonna transfer to you.
619
00:41:00,056 --> 00:41:04,493
- Some companies have capitalized
on the sharks' resilience to disease,
620
00:41:04,561 --> 00:41:07,997
marketing shark cartilage
as a cancer or arthritis treatment.
621
00:41:08,064 --> 00:41:11,056
But there's no scientific backing
to this at all.
622
00:41:11,134 --> 00:41:12,761
It's actually been proven
623
00:41:12,836 --> 00:41:15,168
to do nothing to cure disease,
624
00:41:15,238 --> 00:41:17,968
and now sharks are so contaminated
with mercury and other pollutants
625
00:41:18,041 --> 00:41:19,668
we've put in the ocean
626
00:41:19,743 --> 00:41:21,176
that eating shark products
627
00:41:21,244 --> 00:41:24,111
is more likely
to cause disease than cure it.
628
00:41:33,023 --> 00:41:35,355
The Varadero
continued finning sharks
629
00:41:35,425 --> 00:41:37,791
and throwing the bodies overboard.
630
00:41:40,096 --> 00:41:41,996
We tried to talk with them:
631
00:41:42,065 --> 00:41:45,626
They are illegally fishing
and they have to come with us.
632
00:41:45,702 --> 00:41:49,399
- It was easy to see their motivation -
money, big money -
633
00:41:49,472 --> 00:41:51,667
but they were poaching sharks
illegally.
634
00:41:51,741 --> 00:41:54,676
On instructions
from the authorities in Guatemala,
635
00:41:54,744 --> 00:41:57,736
we ordered them
to stop killing sharks
636
00:41:57,814 --> 00:41:59,873
and follow us into port.
Yeah, ask him.
637
00:41:59,949 --> 00:42:01,416
He's got to make a decision,
638
00:42:01,484 --> 00:42:05,443
whether we're gonna tow him
or he's going in under his own power.
639
00:42:05,522 --> 00:42:09,686
- They're dragging a shark!
- But they refused and took off.
640
00:42:09,759 --> 00:42:11,818
Now they decided to run from us.
641
00:42:11,895 --> 00:42:13,726
They know that if we take them there,
642
00:42:13,797 --> 00:42:16,493
they're gonna lose their boat there,
that's pretty sure.
643
00:42:16,566 --> 00:42:19,558
So we're gonna have to go back
and force them back.
644
00:42:19,636 --> 00:42:21,467
- We chased them
with water cannons,
645
00:42:21,538 --> 00:42:23,972
in hopes of flooding
or stalling their engines.
646
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,201
So we can arrest them?
647
00:42:39,255 --> 00:42:40,813
We gonna hit 'em?
648
00:42:50,433 --> 00:42:52,025
Unless people are prepared
649
00:42:52,102 --> 00:42:54,764
to devote their lives
to solving these problems,
650
00:42:54,838 --> 00:42:56,829
nothing's really going to change.
651
00:42:56,906 --> 00:42:58,897
But you don't need everybody.
652
00:43:13,123 --> 00:43:14,522
You just simply need
a small percentage.
653
00:43:14,591 --> 00:43:16,616
Five, seven percent
is starting to make a big impact.
654
00:43:18,661 --> 00:43:21,323
Okay, let's get ready.
This is gonna be close.
655
00:43:35,979 --> 00:43:38,641
- The Varadero finally agreed
to follow us into port,
656
00:43:38,715 --> 00:43:41,115
where we could deliver them
to the authorities.
657
00:43:57,767 --> 00:43:59,826
About three hours from port,
we got word
658
00:43:59,903 --> 00:44:03,100
that Guatemala had sent a gunboat out
to come and arrest us.
659
00:44:07,177 --> 00:44:09,407
The Varadero
had pulled some strings.
660
00:44:09,479 --> 00:44:12,141
With so much money
in the fin industry,
661
00:44:12,215 --> 00:44:14,581
and much of it
on the black market,
662
00:44:14,651 --> 00:44:16,744
we knew something
had gone terribly wrong.
663
00:44:19,823 --> 00:44:22,053
Lives have been lost
over shark fins
664
00:44:22,125 --> 00:44:26,061
and we had no interest
in battling a Guatemalan gunboat.
665
00:44:26,129 --> 00:44:28,461
So we ditched the Varadero,
666
00:44:28,531 --> 00:44:30,795
and continued south
to Costa Rica.
667
00:44:32,869 --> 00:44:35,667
- The United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization,
668
00:44:35,738 --> 00:44:39,265
based in Rome,
is really the top UN body,
669
00:44:39,342 --> 00:44:42,334
the top international body
that deals with fisheries;
670
00:44:42,412 --> 00:44:45,904
they don't have
any rule-making authority
671
00:44:45,982 --> 00:44:47,711
over the international waters.
672
00:44:47,784 --> 00:44:49,979
Guess what? No one does.
673
00:44:50,053 --> 00:44:52,715
So until the countries of the world
come together
674
00:44:52,789 --> 00:44:56,122
to create some kind of body
that can actually make rules
675
00:44:56,192 --> 00:44:57,819
over the catch limits
676
00:44:57,894 --> 00:45:00,385
and conservation
for the deep seas,
677
00:45:00,463 --> 00:45:04,126
they're not going to be regulated
in any effective way.
678
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,601
It's just basically
a hunting-and-gathering operation,
679
00:45:07,670 --> 00:45:10,332
and, in fact,
a pure exploitive operation,
680
00:45:10,406 --> 00:45:14,035
with people just taking
and not giving anything back.
681
00:45:14,110 --> 00:45:20,674
- Imagine if you went into the forest
and laid down some kind of trap line
682
00:45:20,750 --> 00:45:24,242
that caught, you know,
moose, deer, skunks, porcupines,
683
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:25,378
squirrels, dogs,
684
00:45:25,455 --> 00:45:28,754
you know,
caught all these species -
685
00:45:28,825 --> 00:45:31,316
when really what you were only after
was one or two,
686
00:45:31,394 --> 00:45:34,124
or perhaps three or four,
but you had all these other species
687
00:45:34,197 --> 00:45:35,755
that were caught,
or dying or dead.
688
00:45:37,166 --> 00:45:39,760
I mean,
clearly it wouldn't last a day.
689
00:45:41,471 --> 00:45:42,904
I mean, you know,
690
00:45:42,972 --> 00:45:46,032
nobody could put a trap line down
for 30 miles
691
00:45:46,109 --> 00:45:49,806
and throw away half the animals
he or she killed or caught.
692
00:45:49,879 --> 00:45:52,143
Nobody would tolerate it
for a minute,
693
00:45:52,215 --> 00:45:56,481
but it's going on out there
on a massive scale every day.
694
00:45:58,421 --> 00:46:00,514
Oh
695
00:46:00,590 --> 00:46:02,751
Can't anybody see
696
00:46:08,097 --> 00:46:10,725
we've got a war to fight
697
00:46:13,603 --> 00:46:16,071
Never found our way
698
00:46:17,774 --> 00:46:21,733
Regardless of what they say
699
00:46:23,446 --> 00:46:28,406
How can it feel this wrong
700
00:46:32,789 --> 00:46:34,723
From this moment
701
00:46:34,791 --> 00:46:41,094
How can it feel this wrong
702
00:47:01,417 --> 00:47:04,978
How can it feel
703
00:47:05,054 --> 00:47:07,420
This wrong
704
00:47:14,097 --> 00:47:15,394
From this moment
705
00:47:15,465 --> 00:47:20,061
How can it feel
706
00:47:20,136 --> 00:47:22,468
This wrong
707
00:47:27,510 --> 00:47:31,002
- When we got to Costa Rica,
we were all over the news.
708
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:34,413
The crew of the Varadero,
the illegal shark-fishing boat,
709
00:47:34,484 --> 00:47:37,180
claimed that we tried to kill them.
710
00:47:37,253 --> 00:47:39,551
Okay.
711
00:47:39,622 --> 00:47:42,113
I don't know what this is, either.
712
00:47:42,191 --> 00:47:44,853
- You know... you know what this?
- I don't know what it is.
713
00:47:44,927 --> 00:47:46,986
- Yeah, uh...
- It's the order.
714
00:47:47,063 --> 00:47:48,997
It's the order of the judge,
715
00:47:49,065 --> 00:47:51,556
it's the official order
to come on board
716
00:47:51,634 --> 00:47:52,896
and to make...
717
00:47:52,969 --> 00:47:57,702
- We were charged
with seven counts of attempted murder.
718
00:47:57,774 --> 00:48:00,242
- Crowded in here.
- We do what we normally do,
719
00:48:00,309 --> 00:48:02,504
and the tapes went to Canada
for processing.
720
00:48:02,578 --> 00:48:05,741
- They were after Paul
because he's the captain of the boat,
721
00:48:05,815 --> 00:48:09,216
and me because I filmed it
722
00:48:09,285 --> 00:48:11,378
and they wanted my footage.
723
00:48:11,454 --> 00:48:14,651
Do you have any form
to get your original information
724
00:48:14,724 --> 00:48:16,453
since the beginning
of this situation?
725
00:48:16,526 --> 00:48:18,153
Do I have any way to get that?
726
00:48:18,227 --> 00:48:19,694
- Yeah.
- No.
727
00:48:19,762 --> 00:48:23,220
- Someone else got it?
- Someone else has it.
728
00:48:23,299 --> 00:48:24,630
Okay...
729
00:48:24,701 --> 00:48:26,566
Arrest?
730
00:48:26,636 --> 00:48:28,035
Did you ask them?
731
00:48:28,104 --> 00:48:30,538
Can I ask them? Yeah, probably.
732
00:48:30,606 --> 00:48:32,073
What you have to do,
733
00:48:32,141 --> 00:48:35,577
you have to call them by phone
or what?
734
00:48:35,645 --> 00:48:38,705
- Uh, yeah.
- Could you call them, right now?
735
00:48:38,781 --> 00:48:40,214
- Right now?
- Yeah.
736
00:48:40,283 --> 00:48:42,342
It's important
to get that information.
737
00:48:42,418 --> 00:48:43,715
It's better...
738
00:48:43,786 --> 00:48:46,880
They set the fishing boat free...
739
00:48:46,956 --> 00:48:49,584
and we were being arrested
740
00:48:49,659 --> 00:48:54,153
And, uh, we have all of the law,
in all of Costa Rica here,
741
00:48:54,230 --> 00:48:55,663
talking to us.
742
00:48:55,732 --> 00:48:57,256
They want to see...
743
00:48:57,333 --> 00:49:00,325
- They're totally blank,
there's no pictures on them yet.
744
00:49:00,403 --> 00:49:03,270
- You sure they're not in here?
- Yeah.
745
00:49:03,339 --> 00:49:05,273
Not everyone's gonna fit;
746
00:49:05,341 --> 00:49:08,640
there's about this much room
in the whole room.
747
00:49:08,711 --> 00:49:12,238
It didn't make any sense
why they were arresting us
748
00:49:12,315 --> 00:49:14,909
and ignoring the fishing boat.
749
00:49:14,984 --> 00:49:17,851
We were invited here
by the President of the country
750
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:19,854
to protect Cocos
from illegal fishing.
751
00:49:19,922 --> 00:49:22,516
What do you think
they're gonna do?
752
00:49:22,592 --> 00:49:24,651
I have no idea;
753
00:49:24,727 --> 00:49:26,786
I don't think they know
what they're doing.
754
00:49:26,863 --> 00:49:30,355
What kind of weapons
do you have on the boat?
755
00:49:30,433 --> 00:49:32,094
A shotgun.
756
00:49:32,168 --> 00:49:33,430
Can we see them?
757
00:49:33,503 --> 00:49:35,061
Oh, yeah, sure.
758
00:49:35,138 --> 00:49:36,867
There's just one.
759
00:49:36,939 --> 00:49:39,237
Yeah,
but there's one that's...
760
00:49:40,777 --> 00:49:43,245
- It wasn't an issue
between two boats anymore.
761
00:49:44,881 --> 00:49:48,339
They were going to stop us
from protecting sharks.
762
00:49:55,024 --> 00:49:57,015
The authorities left us
under house arrest,
763
00:49:57,093 --> 00:49:59,721
but we had to fight the charges
in court.
764
00:50:02,799 --> 00:50:05,199
Questions
I need to know is, one:
765
00:50:05,268 --> 00:50:07,668
What are the chances
of them seizing the ship,
766
00:50:07,737 --> 00:50:10,228
and what are the chances
of them arresting me, today?
767
00:50:10,306 --> 00:50:11,773
- We were summoned
to the courthouse,
768
00:50:11,841 --> 00:50:13,570
where we met with Milton,
our lawyer,
769
00:50:13,643 --> 00:50:17,204
to figure out our options
and try and find a way out of this.
770
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,511
- How come everybody's ignoring
that the Varadero,
771
00:50:20,583 --> 00:50:23,416
one: Violated Guatemalan law,
Costa Rican law,
772
00:50:23,486 --> 00:50:27,047
and international law,
and we have the evidence on that.
773
00:50:27,123 --> 00:50:29,591
They cannot take sharks
for fins alone,
774
00:50:29,659 --> 00:50:31,786
they cannot fish
in Guatemalan waters,
775
00:50:31,861 --> 00:50:34,329
they cannot fish
outside of Costa Rica
776
00:50:34,397 --> 00:50:36,558
without a permit.
That's illegal!
777
00:50:36,632 --> 00:50:38,099
Everybody's ignoring that.
778
00:50:38,167 --> 00:50:39,759
Paul's been in this situation before,
779
00:50:39,836 --> 00:50:43,101
and he knows we're in big trouble
if we don't fight back.
780
00:50:43,172 --> 00:50:46,141
- Well, the fact is, if we were
in any Central American country
781
00:50:46,209 --> 00:50:49,042
other than Costa Rica,
we wouldn't even try this.
782
00:50:49,111 --> 00:50:52,774
One other thing: If they have a trial,
is it in Puntarenas;
783
00:50:52,849 --> 00:50:56,842
and if they have a trial,
is it a jury or a judge?
784
00:50:56,919 --> 00:50:59,080
- Three judges.
- Three judges?
785
00:50:59,155 --> 00:51:01,885
- Yes
- Is it in Puntarenas?
786
00:51:01,958 --> 00:51:04,358
Oh, geez,
you don't have a chance there.
787
00:51:04,427 --> 00:51:07,885
But I find it amazing
that the Costa Rican judicial system
788
00:51:07,964 --> 00:51:11,400
is coming at us so viciously
789
00:51:11,467 --> 00:51:15,062
when what they're defending
is an illegal fishing operation.
790
00:51:15,137 --> 00:51:17,196
And, of course, when you see
791
00:51:17,273 --> 00:51:20,037
the number of long-liners
that are operating,
792
00:51:20,109 --> 00:51:22,873
including Taiwanese long-liners
operating in Costa Rica;
793
00:51:22,945 --> 00:51:25,072
and the judicial system
in Puntarenas,
794
00:51:25,147 --> 00:51:28,708
they are certainly not interested
in anything to do with illegal fishing,
795
00:51:28,784 --> 00:51:31,753
but they seem to be very determined
to stop anybody
796
00:51:31,821 --> 00:51:34,221
who's going to interfere
with illegal fishing.
797
00:51:35,958 --> 00:51:37,721
Then I met William,
798
00:51:37,793 --> 00:51:39,988
a conservationist who believed
that the authorities
799
00:51:40,062 --> 00:51:42,587
were being paid out
by the Taiwanese Mafia,
800
00:51:42,665 --> 00:51:46,829
who ran the shark-fishing business
in Costa Rica.
801
00:51:46,903 --> 00:51:50,168
Finning sharks is illegal
in Costa Rica,
802
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:52,207
but huge shipments
of Costa Rican fins
803
00:51:52,275 --> 00:51:54,004
were turning up all over Asia
804
00:51:54,076 --> 00:51:55,566
and no one knew how.
805
00:51:55,645 --> 00:51:58,113
William believed
that the Taiwanese
806
00:51:58,180 --> 00:51:59,704
had private docks
807
00:51:59,782 --> 00:52:02,410
where no one would know
if they were finning sharks.
808
00:52:03,986 --> 00:52:06,614
I needed to know
if William was right,
809
00:52:06,689 --> 00:52:08,657
if they were really finning sharks.
810
00:52:08,724 --> 00:52:12,751
So we broke house arrest
and went undercover into town.
811
00:52:14,430 --> 00:52:18,628
In all our time filming sharks,
we've never been so scared.
812
00:52:20,136 --> 00:52:22,400
There was a whole street
of shark-fishing operations
813
00:52:22,471 --> 00:52:23,961
along a secluded bay,
814
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:25,769
all with private docks.
815
00:52:32,481 --> 00:52:35,575
These plants process,
pack and distribute shark fins
816
00:52:35,651 --> 00:52:38,745
coming mostly
from Costa Rica and Ecuador.
817
00:52:38,821 --> 00:52:41,949
They dry the fins on the roof,
818
00:52:42,024 --> 00:52:44,857
behind huge cement walls,
so no one can see them.
819
00:52:44,927 --> 00:52:47,919
Virtually all of the fins
are shipped to Asia,
820
00:52:47,997 --> 00:52:49,988
making it out of Costa Rica
821
00:52:50,066 --> 00:52:51,727
without being noticed.
822
00:52:56,072 --> 00:52:59,508
This operation had fins from nearly
a dozen different species of sharks.
823
00:53:08,951 --> 00:53:13,786
There were millions of dollars in fins
and dozens of illegal operations
824
00:53:13,856 --> 00:53:16,689
that the authorities
must have known about,
825
00:53:16,759 --> 00:53:18,750
all controlled
by big business in Asia.
826
00:53:25,401 --> 00:53:28,962
The fins were bringing Costa Rica
millions of dollars
827
00:53:29,038 --> 00:53:31,802
and we were trying to stop it.
828
00:53:31,874 --> 00:53:35,105
Now I knew
why we were being arrested
829
00:53:35,177 --> 00:53:38,442
and I knew
we were in serious trouble.
830
00:53:56,132 --> 00:53:59,260
I couldn't believe
how big the shark-fin trade was,
831
00:53:59,335 --> 00:54:01,963
especially in a country
that depends on ecotourism.
832
00:54:03,439 --> 00:54:05,339
At another fin operation,
I found a trailer
833
00:54:05,408 --> 00:54:07,603
sitting next to the building
and climbed on top
834
00:54:07,676 --> 00:54:11,043
to film the fins in broad daylight.
835
00:54:11,113 --> 00:54:13,104
There were at least 10,000 fins
836
00:54:13,182 --> 00:54:16,083
drying on the roof,
and the employees ran out,
837
00:54:16,152 --> 00:54:19,087
trying to push the fins
out of sight of my camera.
838
00:54:22,124 --> 00:54:24,592
Then they stormed out of the building
and headed straight for us,
839
00:54:24,660 --> 00:54:28,926
so we jumped into William's car
and took off.
840
00:54:28,998 --> 00:54:30,727
The corruption was real;
841
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:34,736
we'd uncovered a huge
illegal-fin industry in Costa Rica
842
00:54:34,804 --> 00:54:36,999
that the authorities ignored.
843
00:54:37,073 --> 00:54:39,098
Taiwan donated
millions of dollars
844
00:54:39,175 --> 00:54:41,609
to Puntarenas -
building major highways,
845
00:54:41,677 --> 00:54:44,942
bridges and buildings -
and they didn't want any interference.
846
00:54:48,617 --> 00:54:51,177
One hundred million sharks
are killed each year
847
00:54:51,253 --> 00:54:53,653
to support a billion-dollar
shark-fin industry
848
00:54:53,722 --> 00:54:55,713
that Costa Rica was profiting from.
849
00:54:59,595 --> 00:55:01,722
I knew we were in serious trouble.
850
00:55:03,099 --> 00:55:05,693
We'd be lucky
to get out of Costa Rica.
851
00:55:09,538 --> 00:55:12,769
William told me
not to go back into town;
852
00:55:12,842 --> 00:55:16,073
the shark-fin Mafia
would be looking for me.
853
00:55:19,448 --> 00:55:22,781
Oh Sinnerman
where you gonna run to
854
00:55:22,852 --> 00:55:26,083
Sinnerman
where you gonna run to
855
00:55:27,123 --> 00:55:29,023
where you gonna run to
856
00:55:30,392 --> 00:55:31,723
All along dem day
857
00:55:31,794 --> 00:55:33,853
well / run to the rock
858
00:55:33,929 --> 00:55:36,727
Please hide me
/ run to the rock...
859
00:55:36,799 --> 00:55:38,528
When we got back on the boat,
860
00:55:38,601 --> 00:55:40,865
we heard from our lawyer
that the Coast Guard
861
00:55:40,936 --> 00:55:44,303
was on their way to arrest us
and we would be detained indefinitely.
862
00:55:53,249 --> 00:55:56,514
We had to get out of there,
so we pulled anchor
863
00:55:56,585 --> 00:55:59,179
and made a break
for international waters.
864
00:55:59,255 --> 00:56:01,519
/ said rock
865
00:56:01,590 --> 00:56:04,024
what's a matter with you rock
866
00:56:04,093 --> 00:56:06,584
- I think it's heading this way.
- How fast? 10?
867
00:56:08,597 --> 00:56:10,189
Within minutes,
868
00:56:10,266 --> 00:56:12,666
the Coast Guard was chasing us
with machine guns,
869
00:56:12,735 --> 00:56:15,704
telling us that they will shoot
if we don't stop.
870
00:56:15,771 --> 00:56:18,934
/t was bleedin'
/ run to the sea
871
00:56:19,008 --> 00:56:23,968
/t was bleedin' / run to the sea
/t was bleedin'
872
00:56:24,046 --> 00:56:27,174
- I don't like guys waving machine guns,
demanding to come on board.
873
00:56:27,249 --> 00:56:30,912
No, just the barbed wire right now.
It'll make it difficult for them...
874
00:56:30,986 --> 00:56:32,817
But we knew we couldn't stop.
875
00:56:32,888 --> 00:56:35,413
So we strung barbed wire
around the sides of the ship,
876
00:56:35,491 --> 00:56:39,689
so the Coast Guard couldn't
jump on board, and kept running.
877
00:56:39,762 --> 00:56:41,821
We're not stopping.
878
00:56:43,098 --> 00:56:45,089
Please hide me Lord
879
00:56:45,167 --> 00:56:49,627
Don't you see me prayin'
880
00:56:49,705 --> 00:56:52,572
Don't you see me
down here prayin'
881
00:56:52,641 --> 00:56:56,077
- Tell everybody to be very careful
if those guys got guns.
882
00:56:56,145 --> 00:56:59,012
If they shoot,
they're gonna be really stupid.
883
00:57:00,416 --> 00:57:02,008
Well, tell 'em to shoot.
884
00:57:02,084 --> 00:57:04,814
We're not stopping.
He said go to the devil
885
00:57:04,887 --> 00:57:07,355
All along dem day
886
00:57:07,423 --> 00:57:09,152
So / ran to the devil
887
00:57:09,225 --> 00:57:12,888
He was waitin'
/ ran to the devil
888
00:57:12,962 --> 00:57:15,897
He was waitin'
Ran to the devil
889
00:57:15,965 --> 00:57:19,298
He was waitin'
We did everything right,
890
00:57:19,368 --> 00:57:21,529
we did everything
we were told to do.
891
00:57:21,604 --> 00:57:23,538
Uh, what do they want to do?
892
00:57:23,606 --> 00:57:25,665
Start another international incident
over this?
893
00:57:27,276 --> 00:57:29,801
Tell 'em we have to call our lawyer.
894
00:57:29,878 --> 00:57:34,008
See if we can call Milton on the radio
and tell him they're chasing us.
895
00:57:34,083 --> 00:57:36,643
Sinnerman you oughta be prayin'
896
00:57:38,887 --> 00:57:42,448
Oughta be prayin' Sinnerman
897
00:57:42,524 --> 00:57:44,583
Oughta be prayin'
898
00:57:44,660 --> 00:57:46,093
All on that day
899
00:57:46,161 --> 00:57:48,129
/ cried power
900
00:57:48,197 --> 00:57:49,687
Power
901
00:57:49,765 --> 00:57:53,326
Power
Power
902
00:57:53,402 --> 00:57:55,996
- Finally, we made it out
of Costa Rican waters
903
00:57:56,071 --> 00:57:58,198
and the Coast Guard stopped.
904
00:58:05,547 --> 00:58:07,208
We continued southwest
905
00:58:07,283 --> 00:58:08,807
to the Galapagos,
906
00:58:08,884 --> 00:58:11,478
leaving Cocos to the poachers.
907
00:58:11,553 --> 00:58:14,181
The fins were worth
too much money
908
00:58:14,256 --> 00:58:17,123
and there was a whole industry
behind it.
909
00:58:17,192 --> 00:58:20,389
We knew we could never go back
to Costa Rica.
910
00:58:28,270 --> 00:58:29,737
Four days from Costa Rica
911
00:58:29,805 --> 00:58:32,239
and 800 miles later,
912
00:58:32,308 --> 00:58:35,402
we arrived
in the Galapagos Islands.
913
00:58:35,477 --> 00:58:38,037
Sea Shepherd was invited
by the national park
914
00:58:38,113 --> 00:58:40,911
to protect the marine reserve
from illegal fishing
915
00:58:40,983 --> 00:58:43,850
and we were making our way
through the archipelago
916
00:58:43,919 --> 00:58:46,683
to the main town of Santa Cruz,
917
00:58:46,755 --> 00:58:49,087
where we would meet with the navy
918
00:58:49,158 --> 00:58:50,853
who control the park.
919
00:58:53,729 --> 00:58:56,857
Although the Galapagos
is a marine reserve,
920
00:58:56,932 --> 00:58:58,627
some fishing has always
been allowed
921
00:58:58,701 --> 00:59:00,692
to provide the island residents
with food.
922
00:59:02,838 --> 00:59:04,772
The fishermen soon realized
923
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:07,604
that their underwater treasure
was worth a fortune
924
00:59:07,676 --> 00:59:10,406
and started
shipping their catch overseas.
925
00:59:10,479 --> 00:59:13,175
The government noticed
and started imposing quotas
926
00:59:13,248 --> 00:59:15,614
to protect the resource,
927
00:59:15,684 --> 00:59:18,084
but the fishermen rioted,
928
00:59:18,153 --> 00:59:19,848
destroying national-park offices,
929
00:59:19,922 --> 00:59:22,117
holding national-park officials
hostage,
930
00:59:22,191 --> 00:59:26,093
and threatening to kill
the last giant tortoises.
931
00:59:26,161 --> 00:59:28,686
The government gave in
932
00:59:28,764 --> 00:59:30,755
and raised the quotas.
933
00:59:58,660 --> 01:00:01,925
- Ecuador is on the side
of conserving the Galapagos,
934
01:00:01,997 --> 01:00:05,398
but laws written down
and laws applied
935
01:00:05,467 --> 01:00:08,595
are something very different.
936
01:00:08,670 --> 01:00:12,003
And one of the problems
with the extraction of resources
937
01:00:12,074 --> 01:00:15,771
is that we really often don't understand
how ecosystems work.
938
01:00:17,146 --> 01:00:18,636
At this present moment,
939
01:00:18,714 --> 01:00:22,411
sharks are protected
within the marine reserve.
940
01:00:22,484 --> 01:00:25,282
It is not legal to take sharks.
941
01:00:27,356 --> 01:00:32,293
One of the very strong pressures
at this time in Galapagos
942
01:00:32,361 --> 01:00:34,591
is to open long-lining.
943
01:00:35,998 --> 01:00:39,456
Then you're really talking
about a shark fishery.
944
01:00:41,970 --> 01:00:44,097
We know relatively little
945
01:00:44,173 --> 01:00:48,041
about the general ecology
of the ocean
946
01:00:48,110 --> 01:00:50,340
and to risk removing
947
01:00:50,412 --> 01:00:53,381
a large number of predators
from the area
948
01:00:53,449 --> 01:00:55,383
may have consequences
949
01:00:55,451 --> 01:00:58,215
which we have
absolutely no concept of.
950
01:01:08,764 --> 01:01:11,426
Shark finning is a very profitable
and cheap way
951
01:01:11,500 --> 01:01:14,333
to make a lot of money,
952
01:01:14,403 --> 01:01:18,737
and it has the similar sort of ring,
financially,
953
01:01:18,807 --> 01:01:20,604
to sea cucumbers.
954
01:01:23,645 --> 01:01:26,307
And even
with the humble sea cucumber,
955
01:01:26,381 --> 01:01:28,281
we're already changing situations.
956
01:01:33,155 --> 01:01:36,249
I doubt very much
there'll be a sea-cucumber industry,
957
01:01:36,325 --> 01:01:39,123
simply because
the resource is gone.
958
01:01:43,599 --> 01:01:47,467
- A few men from some
of the cucumber fishing boats -
959
01:01:47,536 --> 01:01:49,868
they're actually
fishing here illegally -
960
01:01:49,938 --> 01:01:53,169
just came up to our boat
to ask if we had any advice,
961
01:01:53,242 --> 01:01:55,710
because they had two of their fishermen
that were bent.
962
01:01:55,777 --> 01:01:57,802
One man had been bent
for four days,
963
01:01:57,880 --> 01:01:59,575
he'd had severe pain
in his shoulders
964
01:01:59,648 --> 01:02:02,640
and it hasn't gone away;
another guy got bent today.
965
01:02:02,718 --> 01:02:05,482
He went back down,
did some in-water recompression,
966
01:02:05,554 --> 01:02:07,419
came back up and feels fine.
967
01:02:07,489 --> 01:02:09,923
If he's been bent four days
and has severe problems
968
01:02:09,992 --> 01:02:12,222
in his shoulder,
he needs to get into a chamber.
969
01:02:12,294 --> 01:02:15,786
The bends is a disease
caused by diving too deep
970
01:02:15,864 --> 01:02:17,798
and surfacing quickly.
971
01:02:17,866 --> 01:02:20,198
It's incredibly painful
and you can die
972
01:02:20,269 --> 01:02:22,931
if you don't get
to a recompression chamber.
973
01:02:23,005 --> 01:02:27,066
If someone's paying them
to go diving for cucumbers,
974
01:02:27,142 --> 01:02:29,975
someone should be able
to pay to take them back
975
01:02:30,045 --> 01:02:32,309
to Santa Cruz
to get to a chamber.
976
01:02:32,381 --> 01:02:34,246
Because he's really sick.
977
01:02:34,316 --> 01:02:36,784
He could die
if he doesn't get to a chamber.
978
01:02:39,855 --> 01:02:43,586
But the problem is,
they have 12 days left of fishing,
979
01:02:43,659 --> 01:02:47,459
so they don't want to go back
to Santa Cruz to go to the chamber.
980
01:02:47,529 --> 01:02:49,997
Lose four days of fishing,
981
01:02:50,065 --> 01:02:52,056
or lose your man?
982
01:02:54,770 --> 01:02:58,001
The cucumbers were worth more
than the lives of the fisherman.
983
01:03:00,542 --> 01:03:02,373
With the cucumbers nearly gone,
984
01:03:02,444 --> 01:03:05,709
the fishermen are pushing
to legalize long-lining,
985
01:03:05,781 --> 01:03:08,341
which catches mostly sharks.
986
01:03:08,417 --> 01:03:11,511
Sharks have always been protected
in the Galapagos.
987
01:03:11,587 --> 01:03:14,181
Now that Costa Rica
was finning sharks,
988
01:03:14,256 --> 01:03:17,589
the Galapagos is one
of the last strongholds for sharks.
989
01:03:19,895 --> 01:03:21,590
Legalizing long-lining here
990
01:03:21,663 --> 01:03:24,757
would wipe out
more than just sharks.
991
01:03:24,833 --> 01:03:27,700
Every animal and ecosystem
in the Galapagos
992
01:03:27,769 --> 01:03:30,237
depends on the ocean
for survival.
993
01:03:39,815 --> 01:03:41,749
Sharks have a really tough time
994
01:03:41,817 --> 01:03:44,217
catching seals and sea lions.
995
01:03:44,286 --> 01:03:47,119
They shaped these animals,
putting pressure on them
996
01:03:47,189 --> 01:03:49,714
so they evolved ways
of avoiding sharks.
997
01:03:53,128 --> 01:03:55,653
The seal evolved
hyper-mobile backbones,
998
01:03:55,731 --> 01:03:59,030
making them extremely agile
in the water
999
01:03:59,101 --> 01:04:00,898
and a difficult target for sharks.
1000
01:04:02,604 --> 01:04:05,732
The sharks have to ambush the seals
or find an injured one.
1001
01:04:07,109 --> 01:04:09,373
To ambush a seal,
they swim below,
1002
01:04:09,444 --> 01:04:11,139
out of visible range,
1003
01:04:11,213 --> 01:04:14,705
looking for the silhouette
of a seal -
1004
01:04:14,783 --> 01:04:19,083
a very similar silhouette
to a human on the surface.
1005
01:04:19,554 --> 01:04:22,022
A healthy seal
moves through the water
1006
01:04:22,090 --> 01:04:23,887
without any noise or bubbles.
1007
01:04:23,959 --> 01:04:26,018
But an injured one
will flail about,
1008
01:04:26,094 --> 01:04:27,891
creating a disturbance
in the water,
1009
01:04:27,963 --> 01:04:31,899
just like humans when we swim.
1010
01:04:31,967 --> 01:04:35,596
It's amazing how few people
are attacked each year,
1011
01:04:35,671 --> 01:04:38,572
considering how much
we look like shark food.
1012
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:41,040
- We treat animals differently,
but they're all doing the same thing.
1013
01:04:41,109 --> 01:04:44,169
So the cute little baby harp seal
grows up and goes out and eats fish,
1014
01:04:44,246 --> 01:04:46,612
just as viciously as a shark.
1015
01:04:46,682 --> 01:04:49,674
But we think of the seal
as sort of cute and cuddly,
1016
01:04:49,751 --> 01:04:51,981
and we think of the shark
as something vicious,
1017
01:04:52,054 --> 01:04:53,544
but that's just human mythology.
1018
01:05:25,921 --> 01:05:28,219
Then my mission stopped cold,
1019
01:05:28,290 --> 01:05:31,748
I had a pain in my leg
and was taken to the hospital.
1020
01:05:33,295 --> 01:05:35,786
It was diagnosed
as flesh-eating disease.
1021
01:05:35,864 --> 01:05:38,731
Doctors said
I was lucky to be alive,
1022
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:40,995
that I would only lose my leg.
1023
01:05:43,438 --> 01:05:46,805
I had a pain in my lymph gland
to the right of -
1024
01:05:46,875 --> 01:05:48,604
to the left of my groin -
1025
01:05:48,677 --> 01:05:51,976
and I came to the hospital,
asked them what's wrong;
1026
01:05:52,047 --> 01:05:56,711
they said I got Staphylococcal
bacteria in my leg.
1027
01:05:56,785 --> 01:06:00,084
Staphylococcus,
or flesh-eating disease,
1028
01:06:00,155 --> 01:06:02,214
infects the body through any wound,
1029
01:06:02,290 --> 01:06:06,556
even a tiny cut,
like the ones I had on my feet.
1030
01:06:06,628 --> 01:06:09,893
It destroys tissue,
consuming the body,
1031
01:06:09,965 --> 01:06:13,230
and if untreated, can kill you.
1032
01:06:17,072 --> 01:06:20,235
I was hospitalized,
fighting to save my leg.
1033
01:06:22,277 --> 01:06:25,041
Watching the IV
of antibiotics and saline solution
1034
01:06:25,113 --> 01:06:27,013
drip into my arm.
1035
01:06:27,082 --> 01:06:30,483
Now that I couldn't be
in the ocean,
1036
01:06:30,552 --> 01:06:33,214
they were dripping the ocean
into me.
1037
01:06:35,957 --> 01:06:38,391
I'll be fine, okay?
1038
01:06:38,460 --> 01:06:40,553
I promise.
1039
01:06:40,629 --> 01:06:44,087
I lay there, watching the red line
creep up my leg.
1040
01:06:45,500 --> 01:06:49,527
It was halfway through my thigh
and if it made it to my hip,
1041
01:06:49,604 --> 01:06:52,698
I would lose more than my leg.
1042
01:06:54,743 --> 01:06:57,678
I'm probably way more likely
to die working in Toronto than here.
1043
01:07:03,952 --> 01:07:07,547
Dude... Brian, don't get stressed
and don't get upset, okay?
1044
01:07:09,090 --> 01:07:12,992
It's fine, it's just...
it's just another bump, alright?
1045
01:07:14,496 --> 01:07:16,930
Then I heard from Paul.
1046
01:07:16,998 --> 01:07:19,660
He said there was nothing
they could do,
1047
01:07:19,734 --> 01:07:23,170
Sea Shepherd was being
kicked out of the Galapagos...
1048
01:07:25,774 --> 01:07:29,232
...because the Galapagos
had legalized long-lining.
1049
01:07:31,847 --> 01:07:34,782
The fishermen wanted more money
and had turned to shark fins.
1050
01:07:34,850 --> 01:07:37,375
The government gave in,
1051
01:07:37,452 --> 01:07:40,615
and long-lining was legalized.
1052
01:07:41,556 --> 01:07:44,116
Now we've lost Cocos
and the Galapagos
1053
01:07:44,192 --> 01:07:46,183
to the fin industry.
1054
01:07:47,729 --> 01:07:50,823
I think the world needs to know
1055
01:07:50,899 --> 01:07:52,696
that sharks are probably
1056
01:07:52,767 --> 01:07:55,235
the most threatened
group of species
1057
01:07:55,303 --> 01:07:58,670
that we have
in the ocean right now.
1058
01:07:58,740 --> 01:08:01,800
And that a lot of shark species
are declining very rapidly;
1059
01:08:01,877 --> 01:08:04,744
that this is not
a natural phenomenon.
1060
01:08:04,813 --> 01:08:08,510
It's because of fishing
and other human impacts
1061
01:08:08,583 --> 01:08:14,385
and that there's a lot we can do
about this to change it.
1062
01:08:16,491 --> 01:08:19,654
- Sharks are going to be difficult
to conserve,
1063
01:08:19,728 --> 01:08:23,687
because on one hand,
you have people afraid of them
1064
01:08:23,765 --> 01:08:27,394
and not really wanting
to go anywhere near them.
1065
01:08:27,469 --> 01:08:30,029
People can sort of fish them
with impunity.
1066
01:08:30,105 --> 01:08:32,369
There's nobody
looking after the sharks.
1067
01:08:32,440 --> 01:08:34,203
There's no campaign,
1068
01:08:34,276 --> 01:08:36,039
like a Greenpeace campaign,
1069
01:08:36,111 --> 01:08:37,908
to save the sharks.
1070
01:10:40,435 --> 01:10:43,097
Paul left to start a campaign
1071
01:10:43,171 --> 01:10:46,197
against illegal whaling
in Antarctica.
1072
01:10:46,541 --> 01:10:48,736
And I was alone.
1073
01:10:50,678 --> 01:10:53,841
Two of the world's
last sanctuaries for sharks
1074
01:10:53,915 --> 01:10:56,042
were going to be wiped out.
1075
01:10:56,117 --> 01:10:58,881
During my last six days
in the hospital,
1076
01:10:58,953 --> 01:11:02,081
more than 1.5 million sharks
had been killed.
1077
01:11:03,458 --> 01:11:06,018
Everyone told me to go home,
1078
01:11:06,094 --> 01:11:07,322
forget about sharks,
1079
01:11:07,395 --> 01:11:09,989
and try and save my leg.
1080
01:11:10,065 --> 01:11:14,331
I didn't know if what I was doing
made sense anymore,
1081
01:11:14,402 --> 01:11:16,495
but all I could think about
1082
01:11:16,571 --> 01:11:18,698
was getting back underwater
with sharks.
1083
01:11:24,179 --> 01:11:27,080
Sharks' presence in the ocean
has provided a framework
1084
01:11:27,148 --> 01:11:29,412
for the populations below them,
1085
01:11:29,484 --> 01:11:31,111
including phytoplankton,
1086
01:11:31,186 --> 01:11:34,155
tiny aquatic plants
that consume more carbon dioxide
1087
01:11:34,222 --> 01:11:35,985
than anything else on Earth.
1088
01:11:36,057 --> 01:11:38,787
Carbon dioxide
is the global-warming gas,
1089
01:11:38,860 --> 01:11:41,192
and plankton converts it to oxygen,
1090
01:11:41,262 --> 01:11:44,857
providing 70�/� of the oxygen
we breathe on land.
1091
01:11:44,933 --> 01:11:46,833
Without sharks to prey on them,
1092
01:11:46,901 --> 01:11:49,768
plankton feeders below sharks
could grow out of control,
1093
01:11:49,838 --> 01:11:52,739
consuming the plankton
that we depend on for survival.
1094
01:11:54,275 --> 01:11:56,835
The ocean
is the most important ecosystem,
1095
01:11:56,911 --> 01:12:01,007
regulating climate
and feeding much of the planet.
1096
01:12:01,082 --> 01:12:04,415
Life on land
depends on life in the ocean.
1097
01:12:05,587 --> 01:12:09,648
I finally realized
that it's not just about saving sharks,
1098
01:12:09,724 --> 01:12:12,488
it's about saving ourselves.
1099
01:12:15,463 --> 01:12:18,557
There was nothing I could do
to save sharks in the Galapagos,
1100
01:12:18,633 --> 01:12:21,796
but shark finning
was still illegal in Costa Rica.
1101
01:12:21,870 --> 01:12:24,338
If I could get back
into Costa Rica,
1102
01:12:24,405 --> 01:12:26,532
maybe I could finally
get to Cocos
1103
01:12:26,608 --> 01:12:28,769
and do something
to stop the finning.
1104
01:12:30,311 --> 01:12:33,075
I lay there,
hoping the red line would stop,
1105
01:12:33,148 --> 01:12:35,616
and after a week it did.
1106
01:12:36,451 --> 01:12:40,012
The infection subsided
and I was finally free.
1107
01:12:41,723 --> 01:12:43,452
I think the problem is,
1108
01:12:43,525 --> 01:12:46,688
that we don't really understand
what we are.
1109
01:12:46,761 --> 01:12:50,060
In essence,
we're, uh, you know,
1110
01:12:50,131 --> 01:12:52,497
just a conceited naked ape,
1111
01:12:52,567 --> 01:12:55,695
but in our minds
we're some sort of divine legend
1112
01:12:55,770 --> 01:12:59,365
and we see ourselves
as some sort of god,
1113
01:12:59,440 --> 01:13:03,843
that we can walk around the Earth
deciding who will live and who will die,
1114
01:13:03,912 --> 01:13:06,813
and what will be destroyed
and what will be saved.
1115
01:13:06,881 --> 01:13:11,011
But the fact is, we're just a bunch
of primates out of control.
1116
01:13:30,605 --> 01:13:33,506
We're now in the midst
of a Third World War,
1117
01:13:33,575 --> 01:13:35,406
but this time
the enemy is ourselves
1118
01:13:35,476 --> 01:13:38,639
and the objective is to save
the planet from ourselves.
1119
01:13:38,713 --> 01:13:41,580
There is no hope
for the masses of humanity
1120
01:13:41,649 --> 01:13:43,082
to do anything.
1121
01:13:43,151 --> 01:13:45,346
They never have, they never will.
1122
01:13:45,420 --> 01:13:49,322
All social change comes
from the passionate intervention
1123
01:13:49,390 --> 01:13:52,382
of individuals
or small groups of individuals.
1124
01:13:53,728 --> 01:13:56,925
Slavery wasn't ended
by any government or any institution.
1125
01:13:56,998 --> 01:13:59,762
Women got the right to vote
1126
01:13:59,834 --> 01:14:02,029
not because of any government.
1127
01:14:02,103 --> 01:14:06,506
The civil-rights movement,
the same thing -
1128
01:14:06,574 --> 01:14:10,510
India with Mahatma Gandhi,
South Africa with Nelson Mandela.
1129
01:14:10,578 --> 01:14:12,773
Again, it's always individuals.
1130
01:14:12,847 --> 01:14:14,610
You need those individuals
1131
01:14:14,682 --> 01:14:16,775
with the passion and the energy
to get involved.
1132
01:14:16,851 --> 01:14:18,580
In fact, I don't know
1133
01:14:18,653 --> 01:14:20,382
of any governments or institutions
1134
01:14:20,455 --> 01:14:22,753
that are doing anything
to solve any of these problems.
1135
01:14:24,058 --> 01:14:26,788
All over the world, though,
I am seeing individuals
1136
01:14:26,861 --> 01:14:29,329
and non-government organizations
that are passionately involved
1137
01:14:29,397 --> 01:14:32,992
in protecting ecosystems
and species,
1138
01:14:33,067 --> 01:14:35,501
and that's where I see
some optimism,
1139
01:14:35,570 --> 01:14:37,595
that's where results
are happening.
1140
01:14:58,893 --> 01:15:00,258
Okay...
1141
01:15:00,328 --> 01:15:01,761
here we go.
1142
01:15:01,829 --> 01:15:05,196
As soon as I was let out
of the hospital,
1143
01:15:05,266 --> 01:15:08,326
I started making my way
back to Costa Rica.
1144
01:15:08,403 --> 01:15:12,396
Costa Rica was the last place
on Earth I should go.
1145
01:15:12,473 --> 01:15:14,373
I would be arrested immediately
1146
01:15:14,442 --> 01:15:17,138
if they found out I was there.
1147
01:15:17,211 --> 01:15:19,702
So I had to sneak in.
1148
01:15:19,781 --> 01:15:22,249
I took a boat
from the Galapagos Islands
1149
01:15:22,317 --> 01:15:23,875
to mainland Ecuador.
1150
01:15:23,951 --> 01:15:25,919
My friends in Costa Rica
1151
01:15:25,987 --> 01:15:29,150
told me not to fly back
into the country,
1152
01:15:29,223 --> 01:15:32,056
that I'd be caught if I did.
1153
01:15:35,997 --> 01:15:37,988
I had to avoid any major ports,
1154
01:15:38,066 --> 01:15:40,398
the police and the Coast Guard.
1155
01:15:40,468 --> 01:15:42,629
Even if I made it to the coast,
1156
01:15:42,704 --> 01:15:45,434
I'd also have to avoid
the shark-fin Mafia.
1157
01:15:52,747 --> 01:15:54,374
To avoid capture,
1158
01:15:54,449 --> 01:15:56,349
I travelled overland for days,
1159
01:15:56,417 --> 01:15:58,715
using public transportation
and tour buses
1160
01:15:58,786 --> 01:16:01,152
to get back into the country.
1161
01:16:01,222 --> 01:16:03,690
Still going, this bus?
1162
01:16:03,758 --> 01:16:07,023
I only narrowly escaped arrest
a few weeks earlier,
1163
01:16:07,095 --> 01:16:09,689
but I had to find a way in
1164
01:16:09,764 --> 01:16:12,392
and find a way
to help the sharks.
1165
01:16:18,773 --> 01:16:21,571
Avoiding arrest and staying
on public buses,
1166
01:16:21,642 --> 01:16:24,042
I made it to the coast
1167
01:16:24,112 --> 01:16:26,740
and entered Puntarenas.
1168
01:16:33,621 --> 01:16:37,523
Instead of the shark-fin Mafia
I was expecting to greet me,
1169
01:16:37,592 --> 01:16:40,254
there were protests
in the streets.
1170
01:16:41,996 --> 01:16:45,454
Costa Ricans were rallying
against shark finning.
1171
01:16:45,533 --> 01:16:48,593
The publicity surrounding our case
brought the shark-finning industry
1172
01:16:48,669 --> 01:16:50,159
into the spotlight.
1173
01:16:50,238 --> 01:16:52,866
We hadn't totally failed
in saving sharks.
1174
01:16:54,542 --> 01:16:57,443
We helped awaken a country
and the people.
1175
01:16:58,980 --> 01:17:00,470
Costa Ricans were outraged;
1176
01:17:00,548 --> 01:17:04,109
they held protests
against the private docks
1177
01:17:04,185 --> 01:17:06,244
and spoke out
against the corruption.
1178
01:17:07,989 --> 01:17:10,549
The world had started
rallying for sharks.
1179
01:17:24,539 --> 01:17:27,474
The police were busy
with the protest
1180
01:17:27,542 --> 01:17:30,102
and the Mafia was in hiding.
1181
01:17:31,946 --> 01:17:35,245
Now I knew I could make it to Cocos
without getting caught.
1182
01:17:42,089 --> 01:17:45,286
I found my friends
and we headed back out to sea.
1183
01:18:02,543 --> 01:18:04,738
Returning underwater,
1184
01:18:04,812 --> 01:18:07,940
finally I could swim
with sharks again,
1185
01:18:08,015 --> 01:18:11,712
in one of the last places on Earth
where sharks thrive.
1186
01:18:14,255 --> 01:18:17,019
Free diving...
1187
01:18:17,091 --> 01:18:19,525
I hold my breath and stay calm
1188
01:18:19,594 --> 01:18:22,062
so they're not afraid of me.
1189
01:18:27,435 --> 01:18:29,767
Ever since I was a kid,
1190
01:18:29,837 --> 01:18:31,395
I've loved sharks.
1191
01:18:36,611 --> 01:18:38,875
They taught me about life,
1192
01:18:38,946 --> 01:18:42,279
and that fear
was something I made up,
1193
01:18:42,350 --> 01:18:44,409
and it wasn't real.
1194
01:18:48,322 --> 01:18:51,814
Sharks have been here
since the beginning,
1195
01:18:51,893 --> 01:18:54,885
when there was only primitive life
in the oceans
1196
01:18:54,962 --> 01:18:57,692
and the land was mostly desert.
1197
01:18:59,467 --> 01:19:01,833
They were the top predator,
1198
01:19:01,903 --> 01:19:05,202
influencing any animal to evolve
since their inception.
1199
01:19:08,409 --> 01:19:10,707
Sharks have been gods
1200
01:19:10,778 --> 01:19:13,076
for 400 million years,
1201
01:19:13,147 --> 01:19:14,842
shaping this world
1202
01:19:14,916 --> 01:19:18,545
for the entire history
of life on land.
1203
01:19:24,225 --> 01:19:25,920
Seeing them again,
1204
01:19:25,993 --> 01:19:28,723
I knew that they're almost gone.
1205
01:19:31,098 --> 01:19:32,588
The killing of sharks
1206
01:19:32,667 --> 01:19:36,626
is the biggest ecological time bomb
we're going to face pretty soon.
1207
01:19:36,704 --> 01:19:39,468
We have to understand
that sharks are the most abundant
1208
01:19:39,540 --> 01:19:42,031
top predator on this planet,
at over 100 pounds,
1209
01:19:42,109 --> 01:19:45,169
so that tells you something.
Nature created them for a reason.
1210
01:19:45,246 --> 01:19:47,441
Now human beings just...
they don't care
1211
01:19:47,515 --> 01:19:50,279
they kill 100 million, 200 million.
"So what?" You know?
1212
01:19:50,351 --> 01:19:53,411
"Sharks are a nuisance,
a dead shark is a good shark,
1213
01:19:53,487 --> 01:19:56,547
let's kill 'em all. "
But if we kill 'em all,
1214
01:19:56,624 --> 01:19:59,388
we destroy all food chains
of an entire marine ecosystem
1215
01:19:59,460 --> 01:20:02,520
and, well, the majority of our oxygen
comes from the ocean,
1216
01:20:02,597 --> 01:20:04,292
so we should be more careful.
1217
01:20:04,365 --> 01:20:07,630
- There is no species on this planet
that has ever survived
1218
01:20:07,702 --> 01:20:09,761
by ignoring
the basic laws of ecology,
1219
01:20:09,837 --> 01:20:13,705
and we're now breaking those basic laws
every day in every way,
1220
01:20:13,774 --> 01:20:18,541
and that's going to mean our own demise
in a very short period of time,
1221
01:20:18,613 --> 01:20:21,605
unless we learn to live harmoniously
with the natural world.
1222
01:20:21,682 --> 01:20:24,879
- Future generations
are gonna look back on us
1223
01:20:24,952 --> 01:20:28,547
and they're gonna think of us
as barbarians,
1224
01:20:28,623 --> 01:20:31,820
the same way
we think of slave traders.
1225
01:20:31,892 --> 01:20:35,953
That they're gonna look at us
as barbarians for what we're doing,
1226
01:20:36,030 --> 01:20:38,931
the fact that we're burning
all the fossil fuels,
1227
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:42,163
in a few generations,
that we've wiped out the oceans,
1228
01:20:42,236 --> 01:20:44,227
that we've driven species
to extinction.
1229
01:20:44,305 --> 01:20:48,071
And worse - this is the worst part -
we know what we're doing.
1230
01:20:48,142 --> 01:20:49,837
The scientists know,
the environmentalists know,
1231
01:20:49,910 --> 01:20:52,208
the companies know
and the general public knows,
1232
01:20:52,279 --> 01:20:54,907
and yet we're allowing ourselves
to do it.
1233
01:20:57,385 --> 01:21:00,877
- Sharks have lived
in balance with the oceans
1234
01:21:00,955 --> 01:21:02,752
as the top predator.
1235
01:21:04,125 --> 01:21:07,686
Now we are the top predator,
1236
01:21:07,762 --> 01:21:10,595
deciding which species we'll use
1237
01:21:10,665 --> 01:21:13,031
and which we'll destroy.
1238
01:21:13,100 --> 01:21:16,467
I wonder if we've evolved enough
1239
01:21:16,537 --> 01:21:18,971
to survive as they have.
1240
01:21:22,743 --> 01:21:26,076
We depend on the oceans
for oxygen;
1241
01:21:26,147 --> 01:21:29,116
the oceans that sharks control.
1242
01:21:33,220 --> 01:21:35,085
If we lose sharks,
1243
01:21:35,156 --> 01:21:37,784
we'll disrupt the oxygen
we need to breathe.
1244
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We've only been here
for a few million years
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and in the last 100 years,
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we've greatly impacted
life in the ocean.
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But we also have the power
to change it for the better.
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People in Costa Rica
weren't just rallying for sharks.
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They were rallying for life...
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and for us.
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SiNCRONiZACiON POR
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