1 00:01:05,157 --> 00:01:06,767 ROB STEWART: I got lost in the ocean. 2 00:01:09,596 --> 00:01:11,119 I was underwater. 3 00:01:11,163 --> 00:01:13,382 Took a wrong turn, got stuck in some currents. 4 00:01:13,426 --> 00:01:15,210 By the time I surfaced, I was a mile and a half 5 00:01:15,254 --> 00:01:16,690 away from where I should've been. 6 00:01:19,606 --> 00:01:21,086 I thought I was gonna die. 7 00:01:27,657 --> 00:01:29,572 The only option I had was to not give up. 8 00:01:39,669 --> 00:01:42,846 That was very much a metaphor for what we're going through now. 9 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:47,721 'Cause if you give up, 100% you're dead. 10 00:01:50,115 --> 00:01:51,812 I think we're in that situation right now. 11 00:01:52,813 --> 00:01:54,336 You can't give up. 12 00:02:23,278 --> 00:02:27,108 ROB: So we just snuck into Costa Rica. 13 00:02:27,152 --> 00:02:30,894 The first time since 2002, 14 years ago, 14 00:02:32,418 --> 00:02:36,248 to check out what's going on with the fin industry here 15 00:02:36,291 --> 00:02:38,902 and what we might be able to do about it. 16 00:02:38,946 --> 00:02:42,776 And we had a local contact set up to do interviews for us. 17 00:02:42,819 --> 00:02:46,736 So, the word is already in the Costa Rican government now that... 18 00:02:48,434 --> 00:02:50,740 I'm here and that Sharkwateris here, 19 00:02:50,784 --> 00:02:52,612 and we're making Sharkwater 2. 20 00:02:52,655 --> 00:02:55,092 We're not here without a filming permit, we already know the country. 21 00:02:56,268 --> 00:02:57,878 So we gotta watch our back. 22 00:03:16,897 --> 00:03:18,507 ROB: 15 years ago, 23 00:03:18,551 --> 00:03:22,337 I began a quest to save sharks from shark fin soup, 24 00:03:22,381 --> 00:03:23,947 a Chinese delicacy. 25 00:03:27,081 --> 00:03:29,649 Millions of sharks were being finned, 26 00:03:29,692 --> 00:03:32,478 where they were pulled out of the water, their fins were cut off, 27 00:03:32,521 --> 00:03:36,046 and were thrown back into the oceans to die, 28 00:03:36,090 --> 00:03:40,268 destroying the populations of some of the most important predators 29 00:03:40,312 --> 00:03:42,009 the planet has ever had. 30 00:03:50,757 --> 00:03:53,499 And I thought that if I could change the public's view of sharks 31 00:03:53,542 --> 00:03:56,719 if I could make them love these animals like I did... 32 00:03:56,763 --> 00:04:00,288 See that they're beautiful and amazing and magnificent and important, 33 00:04:00,332 --> 00:04:02,247 then maybe they'd wanna fight for their protection 34 00:04:02,290 --> 00:04:04,684 like they fight for pandas and elephants and bears. 35 00:04:12,692 --> 00:04:14,781 Well, the movie, you know, it took me five years, 36 00:04:14,824 --> 00:04:17,305 and nearly killed me half a dozen times. 37 00:04:20,830 --> 00:04:22,702 We had to run from the country while the coast guard 38 00:04:22,745 --> 00:04:24,704 was firing machine guns at us. 39 00:04:24,747 --> 00:04:27,315 And it, you know, turned into this crazy story 40 00:04:27,359 --> 00:04:30,753 that shows you how much money there is in the exploitation of sharks. 41 00:04:43,984 --> 00:04:45,812 The film, Sharkwater, 42 00:04:45,855 --> 00:04:48,641 brought the plight of sharks for shark fin soup into the spotlight, 43 00:04:48,684 --> 00:04:51,078 resulting in the creation of conservation groups, 44 00:04:51,121 --> 00:04:53,689 government policy changing all around the world, 45 00:04:53,733 --> 00:04:57,345 and an empowered youth that knew they could change the world. 46 00:04:59,913 --> 00:05:03,133 Today, shark finning is banned throughout most of the world. 47 00:05:09,270 --> 00:05:12,578 But now, sharks are in more trouble than ever before. 48 00:05:14,580 --> 00:05:18,888 We're killing up to 150 million sharks a year, 49 00:05:18,932 --> 00:05:21,935 but scientists can only account for 70 million of those. 50 00:05:23,763 --> 00:05:27,549 There are 80 million sharks every year that are getting killed, 51 00:05:27,593 --> 00:05:31,074 and nobody knows why, or where those sharks are going. 52 00:05:42,825 --> 00:05:46,176 ROB: And what's changed in Costa Rica in the last ten years? 53 00:05:46,220 --> 00:05:50,616 RANDALL ARAUZ: Well, it's changed dramatically from Sharkwater. 54 00:05:50,659 --> 00:05:54,228 We're actually turning into marine conservation leaders 55 00:05:54,271 --> 00:05:55,795 in these conventions. 56 00:05:55,838 --> 00:05:57,666 The Costa Rican is doing a great job. 57 00:05:57,710 --> 00:06:00,582 Unfortunately, we had a new president step in, 58 00:06:00,626 --> 00:06:03,106 and in the matter of a stroke of a pen, 59 00:06:03,150 --> 00:06:06,240 in one year, many of these policies were reversed. 60 00:06:06,283 --> 00:06:09,591 We saw Costa Rica export 900 kilos of hammerhead shark fins 61 00:06:09,635 --> 00:06:11,506 against the CITES convention. 62 00:06:11,550 --> 00:06:14,422 They actually did two exportations, um, to do this. 63 00:06:14,466 --> 00:06:18,034 The government of Costa Rica just decided to ignore its commitments with CITES 64 00:06:18,078 --> 00:06:19,471 and the international community, 65 00:06:19,514 --> 00:06:20,907 and Costa Rica just decided, 66 00:06:20,950 --> 00:06:22,430 "We're gonna export these hammerhead shark fins 67 00:06:22,474 --> 00:06:23,823 "because they're public interest." 68 00:06:23,866 --> 00:06:25,215 And they did. 69 00:06:31,961 --> 00:06:34,529 RANDALL: And they even got the president of Costa Rica 70 00:06:34,573 --> 00:06:39,055 to sign a statement saying that the government was no longer going to protect sharks 71 00:06:39,099 --> 00:06:40,970 in international conventions. 72 00:06:43,233 --> 00:06:45,148 And that's when we really flipped, 73 00:06:45,192 --> 00:06:49,109 because the work that we had done for ten years over three presidents, 74 00:06:49,152 --> 00:06:52,504 in a matter of months, it's all, you know, torn to pieces. 75 00:06:52,547 --> 00:06:54,027 Costa Rica's not going that way anymore. 76 00:08:01,442 --> 00:08:04,358 Um, is shark finning still happening in Costa Rica? 77 00:08:04,401 --> 00:08:08,362 Uh, it's happening, but without the permission 78 00:08:08,405 --> 00:08:10,103 and without the support, 79 00:08:10,146 --> 00:08:13,889 and without the, uh, willingness of the Costa Rican government. 80 00:08:13,933 --> 00:08:16,544 Finning is happening simply because it's an illegal action. 81 00:08:16,588 --> 00:08:19,765 And just as it happens with narcotrafficking 82 00:08:19,808 --> 00:08:22,028 or any other action, it continues to happen, 83 00:08:22,071 --> 00:08:23,464 and I regret it. 84 00:08:23,508 --> 00:08:25,597 And the authorities of Costa Rica 85 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:29,078 are taking all the necessary steps to prevent it. 86 00:08:31,428 --> 00:08:34,519 REGI DOMINGO: It's always the same with them. Say one thing and do another. 87 00:08:43,005 --> 00:08:45,138 ROB: We're headed to Puntarenas 88 00:08:45,181 --> 00:08:50,143 because we'd figured out that if you want to bring illicit fins into Costa Rica, 89 00:08:50,186 --> 00:08:53,407 all you have to do is land them in port on the weekend 90 00:08:53,450 --> 00:08:57,193 when the fisheries body that looks after fish 91 00:08:57,237 --> 00:08:58,978 isn't working. 92 00:08:59,021 --> 00:09:01,720 So we're gonna rock up to Puntarenas, pull out our cameras, 93 00:09:01,763 --> 00:09:04,549 and see if we can film anything illegal 94 00:09:04,592 --> 00:09:08,857 happening on the weekends and happening without any official body watching. 95 00:09:28,485 --> 00:09:30,183 ROB: Are you going to be your real name? 96 00:09:30,226 --> 00:09:31,358 No. 97 00:09:32,838 --> 00:09:35,144 I'm gonna be Laurette. 98 00:09:35,188 --> 00:09:36,798 ROB: How about when they ask you for your ID? 99 00:09:38,670 --> 00:09:41,107 So do you think they'd have to take my ID? 100 00:09:41,150 --> 00:09:42,630 ROB: Just trying to watch your back, Regi. 101 00:09:47,548 --> 00:09:49,898 ROB: People don't realize there's so much money in the trade of animals, 102 00:09:49,942 --> 00:09:51,378 there's so much money in the trade of fins. 103 00:09:51,421 --> 00:09:53,554 It's a billion-dollar industry. 104 00:09:53,598 --> 00:09:56,513 There's multimillionaires playing mafia rings 105 00:09:56,557 --> 00:09:58,951 like puppeteers trying to exploit the resource. 106 00:10:05,697 --> 00:10:06,872 ROB: You've got to be kidding me. 107 00:10:07,916 --> 00:10:09,526 REGI: I'm not surprised. 108 00:10:22,148 --> 00:10:24,324 We're gonna meet Williams Flores, 109 00:10:24,367 --> 00:10:26,456 who, when we were last in Puntarenas, 110 00:10:26,500 --> 00:10:28,676 told us about these mafia warehouses 111 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:30,373 drying shark fins. 112 00:10:30,417 --> 00:10:33,594 And so now we're back in Costa Rica, we're gonna go meet him 113 00:10:33,638 --> 00:10:37,990 and see how the situation has changed, where they're drying fins, 114 00:10:38,033 --> 00:10:41,297 and what we might be able to do 115 00:10:41,341 --> 00:10:43,212 to help save sharks in Costa Rica. 116 00:10:50,655 --> 00:10:51,917 -Hello. -Hi. 117 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,007 -How are you? -Good. Come here. 118 00:11:18,465 --> 00:11:20,467 -REGI: Thanks. -MAN: That's yours. 119 00:11:20,510 --> 00:11:23,992 MAN: Get a life jacket. It's better. 120 00:11:24,036 --> 00:11:26,603 -For what? To look like a tourist? -To seem more tourist. 121 00:11:26,647 --> 00:11:28,431 Sure. Good idea. 122 00:12:10,735 --> 00:12:12,127 ROB: Which one is the Varadero? 123 00:12:12,171 --> 00:12:14,695 BROCK CAHILL: That one, right there, Franju. 124 00:12:14,739 --> 00:12:16,828 ROB: Sharks are worth an enormous amount of money, 125 00:12:16,871 --> 00:12:18,525 and it's mostly for their fins. 126 00:12:18,568 --> 00:12:22,311 And, you know, a single pound of fin is worth over $200 US. 127 00:12:22,355 --> 00:12:25,184 So, to fishermen around the world in third-world countries, 128 00:12:25,227 --> 00:12:27,447 you can pull up a shark, cut off its fins, 129 00:12:27,490 --> 00:12:29,579 throw the rest of the body back, dry the fin. 130 00:12:29,623 --> 00:12:31,407 You don't need refrigeration systems on your boat, 131 00:12:31,451 --> 00:12:33,888 so even the most decrepit boats can go out there 132 00:12:33,932 --> 00:12:35,455 and make enormous amounts of money. 133 00:12:35,498 --> 00:12:38,501 And it's... Sharks are being fished everywhere. 134 00:12:40,112 --> 00:12:41,940 ROB: Oh, look, he's got something. 135 00:12:41,983 --> 00:12:43,680 What is it? 136 00:12:43,724 --> 00:12:45,552 REGI: Looks like a hammerhead to me. 137 00:12:48,337 --> 00:12:50,209 ROB: So, you wanna buy it off him? 138 00:12:50,252 --> 00:12:51,558 He looks like he's interested in... 139 00:12:53,778 --> 00:12:55,736 ROB: Blacktips? 140 00:12:55,780 --> 00:12:59,479 REGI: Ehm, no, this is a little hammerhead. 141 00:13:16,322 --> 00:13:18,977 They have 30 of these ones. 142 00:13:19,020 --> 00:13:21,718 ROB: 30, and they're little blacktips, right? 143 00:13:21,762 --> 00:13:24,765 -REGI: Yeah. -ROB: Yeah. Okay. 144 00:13:24,809 --> 00:13:26,332 ABRAHAM STERN: You have to be careful. 145 00:13:26,375 --> 00:13:27,724 Okay. 146 00:13:27,768 --> 00:13:29,596 That's a must. 147 00:13:29,639 --> 00:13:32,729 You cannot go... Especially if you're gonna be shooting in Puntarenas. 148 00:13:32,773 --> 00:13:35,907 You already know how dangerous it is right there. 149 00:13:35,950 --> 00:13:37,691 You guys run for your life. 150 00:13:37,734 --> 00:13:40,607 I remember one shooting... You were meeting, 151 00:13:40,650 --> 00:13:44,132 or you went into a warehouse, I think so, 152 00:13:44,176 --> 00:13:47,570 and you saw the shark fins on the roof. 153 00:13:47,614 --> 00:13:50,095 And you guys were running, literally. 154 00:13:50,138 --> 00:13:51,661 So we have to be careful. 155 00:13:53,576 --> 00:13:55,535 Costa Rica is a good country. 156 00:13:56,797 --> 00:13:59,887 Unfortunately, there's very bad layers in it. 157 00:14:01,976 --> 00:14:03,369 WILL: Ready, Rob. 158 00:15:13,787 --> 00:15:15,397 ROB: Holy shit, there's one clear panel 159 00:15:15,441 --> 00:15:16,703 and I think there's fins in it. 160 00:15:18,705 --> 00:15:21,534 ROB: When we realized how much money there was in fins 161 00:15:21,577 --> 00:15:23,362 and all of these operations, 162 00:15:23,405 --> 00:15:26,321 and how much money was going to Costa Rica for the fin industry, 163 00:15:26,365 --> 00:15:28,280 that was a major eye-opener. 164 00:15:29,324 --> 00:15:32,849 ROB: Wow, that's a lot of fins. 165 00:15:32,893 --> 00:15:38,029 ROB: You think of Costa Rica and you think, you know, lots of conservation happening. 166 00:15:38,072 --> 00:15:40,161 You don't expect one of the most progressive countries 167 00:15:40,205 --> 00:15:41,946 down there to encounter that, but we did. 168 00:16:04,011 --> 00:16:06,100 REGI: We have to leave this place right now. 169 00:16:06,144 --> 00:16:07,580 ROB: What's going on? 170 00:16:07,623 --> 00:16:12,411 REGI: This hotel is from the owner of Mariscos Wang. 171 00:16:12,454 --> 00:16:15,240 It's Diego, so it's one of the big mafia 172 00:16:15,283 --> 00:16:16,589 in Puntarenas. 173 00:16:16,632 --> 00:16:18,025 BROCK: That makes perfect sense. 174 00:16:18,069 --> 00:16:20,549 We have been sleeping here, 175 00:16:20,593 --> 00:16:21,898 so it's not nice. 176 00:16:21,942 --> 00:16:25,032 You know, we've been here thus far. 177 00:16:25,076 --> 00:16:28,296 WILL: Yeah, but we were flying drones off the roof yesterday. 178 00:16:28,340 --> 00:16:29,732 What do you mean? 179 00:16:29,776 --> 00:16:32,257 We're being a little more conspicuous today. 180 00:16:32,300 --> 00:16:35,695 Taking off remote control helicopters 181 00:16:35,738 --> 00:16:38,045 off the roof and flying over the ports. 182 00:16:38,915 --> 00:16:40,961 So, now, 183 00:16:41,005 --> 00:16:43,616 a few people have seen us do that. 184 00:16:43,659 --> 00:16:46,053 REGI: I think we have to check out and go our separate ways. 185 00:16:46,097 --> 00:16:47,185 For sure. 186 00:16:56,977 --> 00:16:58,892 REGI: After that, I got death threats, 187 00:16:58,935 --> 00:17:00,502 and I had to leave Costa Rica. 188 00:17:03,114 --> 00:17:06,508 The next time I saw Rob was just before the last dive. 189 00:17:27,312 --> 00:17:29,314 ROB: I was a fish nerd when I was a kid. 190 00:17:32,926 --> 00:17:35,059 I was chubby, I stuttered, 191 00:17:35,102 --> 00:17:37,583 and I ended up liking animals more than people. 192 00:17:46,070 --> 00:17:49,334 I had a goldfish bowl, I think, from the time I was zero, 193 00:17:49,377 --> 00:17:51,292 and just fell in love with fish, 194 00:17:51,336 --> 00:17:53,512 and looked into that world and saw these creatures 195 00:17:53,555 --> 00:17:56,732 that I didn't really understand, that could breathe water, that could fly. 196 00:18:07,874 --> 00:18:09,832 I had the opportunity to go underwater 197 00:18:09,876 --> 00:18:11,486 and hang out in the Caribbean as a kid. 198 00:18:15,099 --> 00:18:17,057 Because I was so young, I wasn't allowed to dive. 199 00:18:17,101 --> 00:18:19,407 The only way I could go down there and hang out with these fish 200 00:18:19,451 --> 00:18:21,148 was holding my breath and swimming down. 201 00:18:23,194 --> 00:18:26,022 And it just... It was the most magical world possible. 202 00:18:26,066 --> 00:18:28,460 You know, you're in a three-dimensional world, you can fly. 203 00:18:29,548 --> 00:18:31,898 And, uh, as a kid that just enthralled me. 204 00:18:43,257 --> 00:18:45,346 I met my first shark when I was nine. 205 00:18:49,176 --> 00:18:51,222 I saw the shark out of the corner of my eye, 206 00:18:52,179 --> 00:18:54,703 and it swam in my direction. 207 00:18:58,881 --> 00:19:02,494 And the second it made eye contact with me, it freaked out, 208 00:19:02,537 --> 00:19:04,148 and swam the other direction. 209 00:19:20,816 --> 00:19:22,949 For me, that whole experience, 210 00:19:22,992 --> 00:19:24,690 five-foot Caribbean Reef shark 211 00:19:24,733 --> 00:19:27,214 terrified of a nine-year-old kid, 212 00:19:27,258 --> 00:19:30,391 removed all the fear I had of sharks in the ocean 213 00:19:30,435 --> 00:19:33,568 and allowed me to go explore it further, fall deeper in love. 214 00:20:24,793 --> 00:20:26,839 ROB: And I'm here in Cat Island in the Bahamas 215 00:20:26,882 --> 00:20:29,842 because one of the most amazing sharks in the world, 216 00:20:29,885 --> 00:20:33,324 the oceanic whitetip shark, come here only in the month of May. 217 00:20:33,367 --> 00:20:37,545 Now, the oceanic whitetip shark was once the most abundant large predator on the planet. 218 00:20:37,589 --> 00:20:40,722 They were everywhere, but because they have massive fins 219 00:20:40,766 --> 00:20:43,072 that are highly valued in the fin industry, 220 00:20:43,116 --> 00:20:46,162 oceanic whitetip shark populations in the Atlantic and Caribbean 221 00:20:46,206 --> 00:20:48,164 have dropped 99%. 222 00:20:51,429 --> 00:20:54,562 When I heard these creatures were spotted in this area, 223 00:20:54,606 --> 00:20:56,651 my team decided to take a chance 224 00:20:56,695 --> 00:20:58,479 and see if we could capture them on film 225 00:20:58,523 --> 00:21:00,525 so others could see the reality 226 00:21:00,568 --> 00:21:02,831 behind what Jacques Cousteau once called, 227 00:21:02,875 --> 00:21:05,312 "The most dangerous of all sharks." 228 00:21:11,492 --> 00:21:14,887 Having never filmed them before, and with a serious reputation, 229 00:21:14,930 --> 00:21:18,064 I'm a bit cautious as I learned to understand these sharks. 230 00:22:14,729 --> 00:22:17,341 Oceanics turned out to be absolute sweethearts. 231 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:24,478 They had the most expressive and curious eyes I've seen in any shark. 232 00:22:24,522 --> 00:22:27,916 And you can really feel them reading you. 233 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,919 They're also a little cheeky and very intelligent. 234 00:22:44,455 --> 00:22:47,414 The most important thing for me when filming sharks 235 00:22:47,458 --> 00:22:50,199 is to try to understand what life is like for them, 236 00:22:50,243 --> 00:22:54,595 how they see the world, and what makes them special, 237 00:22:54,639 --> 00:22:58,469 because my goal is to make people fall in love with sharks. 238 00:22:58,512 --> 00:23:01,863 And for that, people need to see a bit of their softer side, 239 00:23:01,907 --> 00:23:03,474 a bit of their intelligence, 240 00:23:03,517 --> 00:23:06,302 and maybe see a bit of themselves in the sharks. 241 00:23:55,090 --> 00:23:57,049 MARK QUARTIANO: Something big today, baby. Something big. 242 00:23:58,529 --> 00:24:00,531 Stand by, we're gonna hang 'em high. 243 00:24:03,882 --> 00:24:05,710 I got a good feeling today, baby. 244 00:24:15,807 --> 00:24:18,505 Oh, do we have to? 245 00:24:18,549 --> 00:24:20,942 Well, they say 100,000, but I don't think that's true. 246 00:24:20,986 --> 00:24:22,509 I say more like 50. 247 00:24:22,553 --> 00:24:24,424 -ROB: 50,000? -Yeah. 248 00:24:24,468 --> 00:24:27,471 ROB: What kind of shark you'd like to catch today more than any other? 249 00:24:27,514 --> 00:24:32,214 MARK: Right now? Uh, I'd like to catch, uh, either a mako or a tiger. 250 00:24:32,258 --> 00:24:35,348 Hammerheads are probably the most common sharks we catch out here. 251 00:24:39,178 --> 00:24:41,528 No. Negative. 252 00:24:41,572 --> 00:24:43,182 No, hammerheads aren't endangered. 253 00:24:43,225 --> 00:24:45,227 There's plenty of them out there and we catch them every trip. 254 00:24:46,533 --> 00:24:48,883 That's all Shark Weekpropaganda. 255 00:24:58,676 --> 00:25:00,721 MARK: I mean, you know, you gotta put it in perspective. 256 00:25:00,765 --> 00:25:03,550 I mean, this is just an animal that's on Earth 257 00:25:03,594 --> 00:25:05,596 for... For what reason? 258 00:25:06,466 --> 00:25:08,033 For man to eat. 259 00:25:12,428 --> 00:25:14,648 I mean, sure, there's a decline in the sharks 260 00:25:14,692 --> 00:25:17,259 because of the commercial guys are whacking them pretty good. 261 00:25:19,044 --> 00:25:21,394 And there's a demand for them. 262 00:25:21,437 --> 00:25:26,573 So, you put a trophy price on something, it's gonna die. 263 00:25:26,617 --> 00:25:28,575 Simple. Show me the money. 264 00:25:38,629 --> 00:25:40,500 We normally get a bite right about now. 265 00:25:42,850 --> 00:25:44,939 Sometimes, you know, you're gonna wait a long time for a bite. 266 00:25:44,983 --> 00:25:46,593 Like today, when there's no current. 267 00:25:46,637 --> 00:25:47,855 Water's kinda dirty. 268 00:25:47,899 --> 00:25:50,162 A lot of trash in the water. 269 00:25:50,205 --> 00:25:53,426 And, uh, you just have to wait. 270 00:25:57,909 --> 00:26:01,913 What do you think it is people like about going and fishing for sharks? 271 00:26:01,956 --> 00:26:05,133 Sharks are the apex predator, you know. 272 00:26:05,177 --> 00:26:08,528 They always had been and they always will be. 273 00:26:08,572 --> 00:26:10,530 What was that? You got a bite there? 274 00:26:10,574 --> 00:26:12,488 Watch out! Get the nose Ryan. 275 00:26:12,532 --> 00:26:13,751 Getting a bite right now. 276 00:26:13,794 --> 00:26:15,361 I got a bomb. I got a bite here. 277 00:26:16,318 --> 00:26:17,668 He got a bite. 278 00:26:17,711 --> 00:26:20,061 Take a line. Take a line. Big fish here. Big fish. 279 00:26:20,105 --> 00:26:22,194 All right, get set up, guys. Get set up. 280 00:26:23,369 --> 00:26:25,501 Oh, yeah. Big fish here. Whoo! 281 00:26:25,545 --> 00:26:26,633 Right in his head. 282 00:26:27,765 --> 00:26:30,071 Easy now, easy. Very slow is good. 283 00:26:32,683 --> 00:26:34,772 Cheer up. Cheer up. 284 00:26:34,815 --> 00:26:36,338 Get ready to get it here. 285 00:26:36,382 --> 00:26:37,513 I am ready. 286 00:26:37,557 --> 00:26:39,124 How long is this going to take? 287 00:26:39,167 --> 00:26:40,952 Sometimes, they'll come right up to the boat, 288 00:26:40,995 --> 00:26:42,431 you get an identification on them, 289 00:26:42,475 --> 00:26:44,259 and it might be another hour after that, 290 00:26:44,303 --> 00:26:49,264 it's really, really, uh, average fight 291 00:26:49,308 --> 00:26:53,660 with this setup, with this type of rod and reel combination. 292 00:26:53,704 --> 00:26:56,184 Average fight on your average shark, 293 00:26:56,228 --> 00:26:59,361 which is a lot of different variables, obviously. 294 00:26:59,405 --> 00:27:01,842 It's about half-hour or 45 minutes. 295 00:27:01,886 --> 00:27:04,802 They could go a lot quicker or go a lot longer. 296 00:27:17,118 --> 00:27:19,338 ROB: People tell you your whole life to be afraid of sharks. 297 00:27:21,296 --> 00:27:23,559 Pretty well everything we've been receiving from the media, 298 00:27:23,603 --> 00:27:25,779 from just about everybody, is that sharks are dangerous, 299 00:27:25,823 --> 00:27:27,563 and they're gonna kill you and they're gonna eat you. 300 00:27:30,088 --> 00:27:31,916 But the reality is totally different. 301 00:27:39,053 --> 00:27:41,795 You know, they've been here for actually 400 million years. 302 00:27:45,277 --> 00:27:47,279 They survived five major extinctions on Earth 303 00:27:47,322 --> 00:27:49,803 that wiped out most life on the planet. 304 00:27:49,847 --> 00:27:52,980 They've seen life on Earth rebuilt from scratch five times. 305 00:27:56,114 --> 00:27:59,117 450 million years of shark's presence on Earth, 306 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,423 we've decimated them 30 years. 307 00:28:03,643 --> 00:28:08,343 Shark populations dropped 90% in 30 years. 90%. 308 00:28:10,694 --> 00:28:13,044 How could this be happening? How could this be happening? 309 00:28:57,784 --> 00:29:01,440 ROB: Sharks, in particular, a lot of them in particular, 310 00:29:01,483 --> 00:29:04,443 -hammerheads seem to not survive... -MARK: After you catch 'em? 311 00:29:04,486 --> 00:29:06,140 ROB: After you catch 'em. 312 00:29:06,184 --> 00:29:10,275 MARK: If you just keep by the boat for a few minutes or so, 313 00:29:10,318 --> 00:29:13,104 their chance of survival is really, really slim to none. 314 00:29:13,147 --> 00:29:14,540 -Yeah? -Yeah. 315 00:29:14,583 --> 00:29:16,281 You almost have to cut 'em off at the boat 316 00:29:16,324 --> 00:29:17,848 and let them keep going swimming. 317 00:29:17,891 --> 00:29:19,110 -Yeah. -Yeah. 318 00:29:19,153 --> 00:29:21,155 You stop and take a picture, 319 00:29:21,199 --> 00:29:24,028 and try to get their hooks out and all that stuff. 320 00:29:24,071 --> 00:29:26,160 It's probably not gonna survive. 321 00:29:26,204 --> 00:29:30,077 Yeah. And that's okay with you? 322 00:29:30,121 --> 00:29:31,687 -If the sharks don't... -Well, what're you gonna do? 323 00:29:31,731 --> 00:29:34,647 You can't, um, put a sign on the hook and say, 324 00:29:34,690 --> 00:29:37,258 "Hey, I don't want any hammerheads biting this bait." 325 00:29:37,302 --> 00:29:38,782 I mean, how're you gonna do that? 326 00:29:44,004 --> 00:29:45,832 MARK: Well done. 327 00:29:45,876 --> 00:29:47,268 Well done. 328 00:29:47,312 --> 00:29:49,009 Pretty work, guys. Pretty work. 329 00:29:50,445 --> 00:29:51,969 ROB: Maddie, what's happening? 330 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:02,022 Grab the other side. 331 00:30:05,547 --> 00:30:07,071 MARK: Nice work, Maddie. 332 00:30:08,855 --> 00:30:10,465 It's a wrap. 333 00:30:10,509 --> 00:30:13,251 By the time you released, he swam away really good. 334 00:30:14,905 --> 00:30:16,776 Good job. 335 00:30:16,820 --> 00:30:19,779 Hey, you gotta break a couple of eggs if you wanna make an omelette. 336 00:30:19,823 --> 00:30:21,302 Remember that, all right? 337 00:30:21,346 --> 00:30:22,347 Good job. 338 00:30:27,961 --> 00:30:29,789 That was really fucked up, bro. 339 00:30:33,271 --> 00:30:37,928 I have seen, like, a hammerhead like that once in my lifetime, 340 00:30:37,971 --> 00:30:41,409 in the distance, on the Great Barrier Reef, 341 00:30:41,453 --> 00:30:45,109 for about 15 seconds before it swam off. 342 00:30:45,152 --> 00:30:47,981 And that was the closest I've ever been to a hammerhead, 343 00:30:48,025 --> 00:30:50,941 and that was terrible. 344 00:30:52,943 --> 00:30:56,250 He's thrashing around at the end, thrashing around. 345 00:30:58,296 --> 00:31:00,124 And he just, like, gave up. 346 00:31:01,734 --> 00:31:03,214 That's the worst thing about it, 347 00:31:03,257 --> 00:31:06,652 like, you can film that on a commercial fishing boat, 348 00:31:06,695 --> 00:31:09,785 and it's still messed up, which I understand why they do it. 349 00:31:09,829 --> 00:31:12,658 But when people do that kind of stuff for fun, 350 00:31:12,701 --> 00:31:18,707 I have absolutely no contemplation of what's going through that person's head, 351 00:31:18,751 --> 00:31:20,666 why that's fun for someone. 352 00:31:27,020 --> 00:31:29,022 MADISON: Rob said 353 00:31:29,066 --> 00:31:33,026 it was good to see me having so much care and sadness over an individual. 354 00:31:33,070 --> 00:31:36,247 And I could still cry over one animal after all we have seen. 355 00:31:38,510 --> 00:31:40,207 It was like an older brother. 356 00:32:08,627 --> 00:32:10,107 ROB: The killing of sharks is, I think, 357 00:32:10,150 --> 00:32:11,717 is one of the biggest concerns that we should have 358 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,458 on the planet ecologically today. 359 00:32:15,286 --> 00:32:17,549 We depend on ecosystems for survival. 360 00:32:17,592 --> 00:32:19,246 We depend on other species. 361 00:32:19,290 --> 00:32:22,815 They're part and parcel of ourselves, of our daily lives. 362 00:32:22,858 --> 00:32:25,339 Removing sharks is removing part of the framework 363 00:32:25,383 --> 00:32:27,820 that allows life to exist on land. 364 00:32:27,863 --> 00:32:31,389 It's the animal that sits on top of 70% of the oxygen 365 00:32:31,432 --> 00:32:35,001 in the air that we breathe from phytoplankton in the oceans. 366 00:32:35,045 --> 00:32:39,049 If you remove once species, the consequences ripple through entire ecosystems. 367 00:32:39,092 --> 00:32:43,009 And right now, we're removing, you know, the most important predator the planet has. 368 00:32:43,053 --> 00:32:46,317 And the consequences are going to not just affect oceanic ecosystems, 369 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,710 they're going to affect our ecosystems and ourselves. 370 00:33:43,461 --> 00:33:46,638 ROB: We're now killing up to 150 million sharks a year, 371 00:33:46,681 --> 00:33:49,293 and it's not just shark fin soup anymore. 372 00:33:50,946 --> 00:33:54,211 Sharks are now being killed and renamed and fed to us, 373 00:33:54,254 --> 00:33:55,908 so we don't know we're eating shark. 374 00:34:00,043 --> 00:34:03,655 This is a massive scandal representing tens of millions of sharks every year. 375 00:34:25,720 --> 00:34:27,200 ROB: Eating sharks is a bad idea. 376 00:34:29,463 --> 00:34:32,858 We're eating endangered super predators. 377 00:34:32,901 --> 00:34:36,166 We're eating animals that can take 40 years to reach sexual maturity. 378 00:34:36,209 --> 00:34:37,819 They can have very few young. 379 00:34:42,085 --> 00:34:44,522 Most of the pollution we've ever made as a species 380 00:34:44,565 --> 00:34:46,959 has gone into the environment untreated. 381 00:34:47,002 --> 00:34:50,354 And that accumulates in living animal matter 382 00:34:50,397 --> 00:34:54,184 and concentrates as you go up the food chain. 383 00:34:54,227 --> 00:34:57,012 By the time you get to sharks, they're enormously toxic. 384 00:34:57,056 --> 00:35:02,409 With things like lead and mercury and even neurotoxins. 385 00:35:02,453 --> 00:35:06,239 So it's important that we keep sharks out of our food. 386 00:35:09,199 --> 00:35:12,332 They're enormously toxic. 387 00:35:12,376 --> 00:35:15,118 Let's recommend to women and children, don't eat them at all. 388 00:35:17,772 --> 00:35:20,427 It's really important to bring this message to the public. 389 00:35:37,357 --> 00:35:38,576 Here are the fins. 390 00:35:45,626 --> 00:35:48,194 -ROB: It's worth a lot of money. -MAIKE: Here, it's $5. 391 00:35:48,238 --> 00:35:49,413 -$5? -Yeah. 392 00:35:49,456 --> 00:35:50,936 -MAN: This is $5 here. -Max. 393 00:35:50,979 --> 00:35:55,245 -So $5 here, and in China, 200 bucks? -Yeah. 394 00:35:55,288 --> 00:35:58,335 MAIKE: A pound of the little ones, it's 50 cents. 395 00:35:58,378 --> 00:36:00,250 -50 cents? -Here in... 396 00:36:21,096 --> 00:36:22,489 Baby hammerheads. 397 00:36:36,024 --> 00:36:37,243 MAIKE: As we have learned, 398 00:36:37,287 --> 00:36:39,898 there has been two confiscations. 399 00:36:39,941 --> 00:36:42,205 I checked the confiscations. 400 00:36:42,248 --> 00:36:44,119 Why do they keep the fins here? 401 00:36:44,163 --> 00:36:48,036 MAIKE: Because this is the coast and ocean department 402 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,778 of the environment ministry. 403 00:36:50,822 --> 00:36:52,432 Okay. 404 00:36:52,476 --> 00:36:54,347 MAIKE: And it's in their custody. 405 00:37:06,968 --> 00:37:09,971 ROB: We're here in a parking lot in Panama City 406 00:37:10,015 --> 00:37:11,843 with hundreds of thousands of dollars of shark fins 407 00:37:11,886 --> 00:37:15,107 confiscated from people that were trying to check these into airlines 408 00:37:15,150 --> 00:37:16,674 and fly them to Asia. 409 00:37:33,125 --> 00:37:36,476 This is a seizure of 800 pounds of shark fins in Panama 410 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:40,393 representing $300,000 in shark fins. 411 00:37:40,437 --> 00:37:43,744 Uh, many of which are illegal and on the endangered species list, 412 00:37:43,788 --> 00:37:46,486 including the scalloped hammerhead shark, our favorite species. 413 00:38:05,288 --> 00:38:07,072 These are all Scalloped hammerheads? 414 00:38:07,115 --> 00:38:09,553 Yup. In essence, they should. 415 00:38:10,554 --> 00:38:12,469 MAIKE: They are huge hammerheads. 416 00:38:20,912 --> 00:38:22,870 And there's 40,000 fins here? 417 00:38:22,914 --> 00:38:27,092 38,868. 418 00:38:27,962 --> 00:38:29,312 Oh, my God. 419 00:38:37,363 --> 00:38:41,106 MAIKE: So we've seen many different shark species, 420 00:38:41,149 --> 00:38:43,630 um, of many different sizes. 421 00:38:43,674 --> 00:38:46,503 Among these, probably the largest hammerhead fins 422 00:38:46,546 --> 00:38:48,418 that, at least, I have seen. 423 00:38:51,682 --> 00:38:54,685 So, the newborns, the lighter ones. 424 00:38:54,728 --> 00:38:56,556 They seem to really get a little bit depressed 425 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,342 when they see these little, small... 426 00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:33,245 -MAIKE: Just the tip of the iceberg. -SEBASTIAN: Yeah. 427 00:39:57,487 --> 00:39:59,445 This is a lot of shark fins. 428 00:39:59,489 --> 00:40:02,666 Yeah, I've never seen something like that before. 429 00:40:22,990 --> 00:40:24,775 RON: When we started making Sharkwater, 430 00:40:24,818 --> 00:40:26,951 there were four countries that have banned shark finning. 431 00:40:29,257 --> 00:40:32,696 When we were finished, there were 16 countries that have banned shark finning. 432 00:40:32,739 --> 00:40:34,959 Now, there's more than 90 countries around the world 433 00:40:35,002 --> 00:40:36,787 that have banned the process of finning, 434 00:40:36,830 --> 00:40:39,485 but none of them have banned the importation of fins, 435 00:40:39,529 --> 00:40:41,487 which means you can fin as many sharks as you want 436 00:40:41,531 --> 00:40:43,489 as long as you put the fins on a shipping boat 437 00:40:43,533 --> 00:40:45,796 before you bring them into port, not a fishing boat, 438 00:40:47,667 --> 00:40:49,321 which is a massive loophole. 439 00:40:57,460 --> 00:40:59,766 WILL: So those are reefer containers 440 00:40:59,810 --> 00:41:03,466 that Rob's identified as being full of frozen shark. 441 00:41:16,653 --> 00:41:18,263 Think Rob's gonna get pinched? 442 00:41:18,306 --> 00:41:20,657 That guy's obviously playing close to security, right? 443 00:41:22,093 --> 00:41:23,398 -ART GAETAN: Yeah. 444 00:41:23,442 --> 00:41:24,922 I'm a little bit surprised he is. 445 00:41:24,965 --> 00:41:27,315 WILL: Yeah, he is. He's not afraid of anything. 446 00:41:35,889 --> 00:41:37,238 Holy crap. 447 00:41:38,762 --> 00:41:40,024 That's a fin. 448 00:41:40,067 --> 00:41:41,808 Just laying on the wharf. 449 00:41:41,852 --> 00:41:44,419 WILL: So we're all shark biologists here. Any idea what species? 450 00:41:48,685 --> 00:41:50,861 JOE PRATT: Not shark would be the guess. 451 00:41:50,904 --> 00:41:52,471 WILL: Oh, God. Holy... 452 00:41:54,604 --> 00:41:56,954 JOE: Yeah, that's not blue shark, Brother. 453 00:41:56,997 --> 00:41:59,565 WILL: No, that's not a blue. We've seen plenty of their fins. 454 00:41:59,609 --> 00:42:00,740 What do you think? 455 00:42:00,784 --> 00:42:02,916 That's a dorsal from something, I'd say. 456 00:42:06,093 --> 00:42:07,399 What's this? 457 00:42:08,618 --> 00:42:09,967 ROB: Blue shark tags. 458 00:42:10,010 --> 00:42:12,360 WILL: Tiburon azul,yeah. 459 00:42:12,404 --> 00:42:15,581 ROB: Stating that blue sharks that were landed here were caught in Spain. 460 00:42:15,625 --> 00:42:16,930 WILL: Oh, creepy. 461 00:42:16,974 --> 00:42:18,453 ROB: We're nowhere near Spain. 462 00:42:21,021 --> 00:42:23,633 JOE: So, apparently, they're not really trying to hide it. 463 00:42:33,164 --> 00:42:34,557 Does this shit make you nervous? 464 00:42:36,733 --> 00:42:37,821 No. 465 00:42:44,131 --> 00:42:45,524 What's happening? 466 00:43:00,844 --> 00:43:02,410 WILL: Where's the Japanese boat? 467 00:43:02,454 --> 00:43:03,586 ROB: Right there. 468 00:43:06,110 --> 00:43:08,025 And you can see the trans-shipping boat. 469 00:43:28,306 --> 00:43:30,090 They're right now with each other, 470 00:43:30,134 --> 00:43:34,051 and the freezer container ship has got a crane 471 00:43:34,094 --> 00:43:36,401 over top of the Japanese boat right now. 472 00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,801 WILL: Oh, shit, dude. They're unloading right now. 473 00:43:46,585 --> 00:43:49,544 ROB: At the end of the dock, they're unloading blue sharks. 474 00:43:49,588 --> 00:43:52,330 Fuck, what are these boats? There's tons of them. 475 00:43:54,941 --> 00:43:56,987 A car has pulled up behind ours, 476 00:43:57,030 --> 00:43:59,380 just randomly beside us. 477 00:44:00,207 --> 00:44:02,122 He looks Costa Rican. 478 00:44:02,166 --> 00:44:03,515 Oh, great. 479 00:45:38,305 --> 00:45:41,265 ROB: Hello. Hi, nice to meet you. What's your name? 480 00:45:41,308 --> 00:45:42,962 -MAN: Roden. -ROB: Roden. 481 00:46:08,858 --> 00:46:10,381 -ROB: Slippery. -MAN: Slippery. 482 00:46:18,432 --> 00:46:19,782 ROB: Wow. 483 00:46:20,826 --> 00:46:22,654 So much money. 484 00:46:22,697 --> 00:46:25,352 Is this full or it will be all the way full? 485 00:46:25,396 --> 00:46:26,658 MAN: All the way full. 486 00:46:26,701 --> 00:46:27,964 ROB: All the way. Wow. 487 00:46:36,102 --> 00:46:39,323 ROB: They're all big blue sharks in that container. 488 00:46:39,366 --> 00:46:43,022 Blue sharks are cute, they're dopey, big eyes. 489 00:46:43,066 --> 00:46:45,111 They don't really ever bite people. 490 00:46:48,985 --> 00:46:51,509 They're loading the shipping container 491 00:46:51,552 --> 00:46:55,208 full of tens of thousands of pounds of blue sharks 492 00:46:55,252 --> 00:46:59,343 onto a shipping boat to leave the country. 493 00:47:02,476 --> 00:47:04,827 The word is out around the world, that sharks mean money. 494 00:47:29,373 --> 00:47:31,549 You know, we spent four years, 15 countries, 495 00:47:31,592 --> 00:47:34,595 trying to figure out what the biggest environmental issues were out there, 496 00:47:34,639 --> 00:47:37,947 only to discover that one of the biggest destructors of our life support system 497 00:47:37,990 --> 00:47:39,644 is in our own backyard. 498 00:49:13,303 --> 00:49:15,870 I think the biggest issue we have on the planet right now 499 00:49:15,914 --> 00:49:19,048 aside from the environment, is our lack of awareness of what's going on. 500 00:49:21,528 --> 00:49:24,705 We don't know about our individual actions, about our consumption, 501 00:49:24,749 --> 00:49:26,185 about our government and corporations 502 00:49:26,229 --> 00:49:27,882 destroying our life support system. 503 00:49:30,059 --> 00:49:32,322 If we did, our morals would engage, 504 00:49:32,365 --> 00:49:34,367 and we'd be guided to a world that works. 505 00:49:35,499 --> 00:49:37,588 We'd hold our friends and our family, 506 00:49:37,631 --> 00:49:39,329 and our governments accountable for this stuff. 507 00:49:39,372 --> 00:49:41,026 We just don't know what's going on. 508 00:50:01,655 --> 00:50:03,527 ROB: It's 3:00 in the morning. 509 00:50:34,993 --> 00:50:36,734 My parents were here all the time, yeah. 510 00:50:39,563 --> 00:50:44,046 What I've always told them, I just have this belief that I'm gonna be okay, 511 00:50:44,089 --> 00:50:45,917 and I'm sure I'm gonna be okay. 512 00:50:50,922 --> 00:50:53,577 I mean, I had times that I almost died and ended up okay, 513 00:50:53,620 --> 00:50:56,754 and sort of reinforce that belief that I'm gonna be okay. 514 00:51:01,672 --> 00:51:03,456 I know exactly how I'm gonna die, 515 00:51:03,500 --> 00:51:04,849 when I'm gonna die. 516 00:51:12,552 --> 00:51:14,380 Uh, it's sunrise, 517 00:51:14,424 --> 00:51:18,428 and we're about to jump in the water in Santa Monica Bay, 518 00:51:18,471 --> 00:51:21,257 on the other side of Catalina Island... 519 00:51:21,300 --> 00:51:24,825 To go see what is caught in drift nets, 520 00:51:24,869 --> 00:51:27,045 nets that are a mile long, 521 00:51:27,089 --> 00:51:28,916 that just hang as a curtain at night 522 00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,571 and catch anything that swims into it. 523 00:51:31,615 --> 00:51:33,791 It's a hugely destructive method of fishing 524 00:51:33,834 --> 00:51:37,577 that kills dolphins, whales, turtles, sharks, 525 00:51:37,621 --> 00:51:39,144 and all sorts of things under 526 00:51:39,188 --> 00:51:42,365 the guise of catching swordfish. 527 00:51:42,408 --> 00:51:46,934 So, knowing how we've already so decimated the oceans, 528 00:51:46,978 --> 00:51:49,328 this method of fishing should not be happening, 529 00:51:49,372 --> 00:51:52,897 and it definitely shouldn't be happening in Los Angeles. 530 00:51:52,940 --> 00:51:55,682 The only reason it's happening is 'cause people don't see it. 531 00:51:55,726 --> 00:51:57,075 They don't know what's happening here. 532 00:51:58,207 --> 00:51:59,773 And we're gonna change that. 533 00:52:31,457 --> 00:52:33,416 Some fisheries will waste 85% 534 00:52:33,459 --> 00:52:35,069 of what they bring to the surface as bycatch. 535 00:52:38,769 --> 00:52:43,600 Right now, we're wasting 54 billions pounds of dead fish every year 536 00:52:43,643 --> 00:52:46,559 that's brought out of the ocean and killed and thrown back 537 00:52:46,603 --> 00:52:48,648 because it wasn't our target fish. 538 00:52:52,522 --> 00:52:54,219 We wanted the more expensive ones. 539 00:52:54,263 --> 00:52:56,917 We threw back all these amazing animals. 540 00:53:24,118 --> 00:53:25,598 MAN: Come on, let's go. 541 00:53:25,642 --> 00:53:27,426 -ROB: Are they shooting? -MAN: Yeah, yes. 542 00:53:27,470 --> 00:53:28,514 MAN: Let's go! 543 00:53:36,218 --> 00:53:37,915 ALL: Let's go! Go, go, go! 544 00:53:45,749 --> 00:53:48,012 ROB: So we just filmed a thresher shark and a blue shark 545 00:53:48,055 --> 00:53:49,666 on a drift gill net 546 00:53:49,709 --> 00:53:51,189 right outside of Los Angeles. 547 00:53:52,495 --> 00:53:55,149 And while we were doing that, 548 00:53:55,193 --> 00:53:57,978 all of a sudden, the boat was immediately on top of us. 549 00:53:58,022 --> 00:54:00,894 They were firing shots at you guys on the boat. 550 00:54:00,938 --> 00:54:03,723 Um, both the blue shark and the thresher shark were still alive, 551 00:54:03,767 --> 00:54:07,466 so you can see their mouths opening and closing and then struggling, 552 00:54:07,510 --> 00:54:11,688 and the blue shark had the mesh caught in its mouth. 553 00:54:11,731 --> 00:54:16,040 And the thresher shark, it was mangled, all messed up 554 00:54:16,083 --> 00:54:17,911 from thrashing around within the net. 555 00:54:18,782 --> 00:54:20,523 Really sad to see 556 00:54:20,566 --> 00:54:23,439 an endangered majestic superpredator 557 00:54:23,482 --> 00:54:26,746 stuck in a primitive fishing method 558 00:54:26,790 --> 00:54:28,835 in the town that I'm living in. 559 00:54:28,879 --> 00:54:31,316 It's crazy. 560 00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:33,927 -WILL: How do you feel? -I don't feel good. 561 00:54:36,016 --> 00:54:39,672 It's super emotional, it was really hard to watch that thresher just dying. 562 00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:42,719 But we're gonna stop this. 563 00:54:48,246 --> 00:54:51,249 BROCK: That was the last time Rob and I went diving together 564 00:54:51,293 --> 00:54:52,729 in our own backyard. 565 00:55:04,523 --> 00:55:05,611 Sure. 566 00:55:07,265 --> 00:55:09,267 Make sure it's fresh. 567 00:55:09,311 --> 00:55:11,487 WOMAN: Hey guys, this is Ashley, how can I help you? 568 00:55:11,530 --> 00:55:14,228 Yeah. Hey, I was wondering, do you guys have any sharks in stock? 569 00:55:26,110 --> 00:55:29,374 ROB: So they could recommend going to this one over this one? 570 00:55:33,204 --> 00:55:35,685 Could you tell me what kind of shark you have? 571 00:55:36,642 --> 00:55:38,296 Black-eyed shark. 572 00:55:39,950 --> 00:55:43,170 I am just curious as to what you might have in stock for shark. 573 00:55:46,652 --> 00:55:50,221 Yeah, hey, I was wondering what sharks you guys have in stock. 574 00:55:50,264 --> 00:55:52,919 Awesome. And it's fresh-caught daily in this time of year, right? 575 00:55:54,878 --> 00:55:56,880 All right. Thanks a lot. 576 00:55:56,923 --> 00:55:58,534 All right we'll be by in a bit. Bye. 577 00:56:01,798 --> 00:56:03,800 ROB: I'm wondering if anybody back there knows 578 00:56:03,843 --> 00:56:05,410 what this species of shark is. 579 00:56:37,007 --> 00:56:38,748 Yeah, it's a wild shark. 580 00:57:00,378 --> 00:57:02,554 Hi, can I have one of your vegan meals, please? 581 00:57:05,775 --> 00:57:08,255 ROB: Thank you, thank you. Bye. 582 00:57:08,299 --> 00:57:10,475 Do you know what this is? 583 00:57:10,519 --> 00:57:11,998 WILL: Do you know what swai is? 584 00:57:12,042 --> 00:57:13,609 ROB: What the heck is swai? 585 00:57:16,481 --> 00:57:18,004 WILL: Iridescent shark. 586 00:57:20,964 --> 00:57:22,879 What do you have that's got fish in it? 587 00:57:24,489 --> 00:57:27,405 It's Alaskan Pollock. 588 00:57:27,449 --> 00:57:29,102 Alaskan Pollock. 589 00:57:29,146 --> 00:57:31,365 -That's in a box. -In a box, okay. 590 00:58:03,659 --> 00:58:07,445 Okay, we are in Florida, 591 00:58:07,489 --> 00:58:09,926 and we just bought a bunch of pet food, 592 00:58:11,144 --> 00:58:14,713 and fast food, and fish products, 593 00:58:14,757 --> 00:58:17,934 and we're gonna test them to see if there's shark in them. 594 00:58:36,735 --> 00:58:38,171 DIEGO CARDENOSA: We're right now at FIU. 595 00:58:38,215 --> 00:58:39,869 Florida International University. 596 00:58:41,131 --> 00:58:42,785 My name is Diego Cardenosa, 597 00:58:42,828 --> 00:58:46,223 I'm a PhD student from Stony Brook University in New York. 598 00:58:48,399 --> 00:58:50,575 We collect shark fin samples 599 00:58:50,619 --> 00:58:52,577 and we do generic bar coding on them, 600 00:58:52,621 --> 00:58:55,145 so we assess the composition 601 00:58:55,188 --> 00:58:58,322 and the proportion of species in the shark fin trade. 602 00:58:59,410 --> 00:59:01,325 All right. Let's do this. 603 00:59:01,368 --> 00:59:02,544 Okay. 604 00:59:05,068 --> 00:59:08,506 So, right now, we're testing your samples of pet food, 605 00:59:08,550 --> 00:59:13,380 um, some shark fillet purchased in supermarkets, 606 00:59:13,424 --> 00:59:15,644 um, some tuna salad. 607 00:59:15,687 --> 00:59:21,911 So the idea's to try to see if we can find any trace of shark DNA in those products, 608 00:59:21,954 --> 00:59:26,350 um, and to identify, if there's any shark DNA in those products, 609 00:59:26,393 --> 00:59:30,093 try to identify it at least to a species or genus level. 610 00:59:30,136 --> 00:59:33,357 So basically, what this does, is once we put it in the thermocycler, 611 00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:37,100 -it will boil to 100 degrees. -Okay. 612 00:59:37,143 --> 00:59:41,147 So that destroys the tissue, or whatever the sample is, 613 00:59:41,191 --> 00:59:44,629 -and breaks the cell open. -Yeah. 614 00:59:44,673 --> 00:59:47,589 And captures everything that is not DNA 615 00:59:47,632 --> 00:59:50,635 and leaves you, like, a clear... 616 00:59:50,679 --> 00:59:54,073 A clear, um, liquid, let's say, with the DNA. 617 00:59:54,117 --> 00:59:55,684 This is the one you're gonna use for it, 618 00:59:55,727 --> 00:59:57,555 for your PCR afterwards. 619 00:59:57,599 --> 00:59:58,643 ROB: Okay. 620 00:59:58,687 --> 01:00:01,167 If there's a shark DNA in this thing, 621 01:00:01,211 --> 01:00:02,821 -it will let us know. -ROB: Yeah. 622 01:00:05,955 --> 01:00:10,133 Now just mixing a little bit of, uh, shark DNA cocktail. 623 01:00:14,528 --> 01:00:18,141 33% of the pet food product tested positive for shark DNA, 624 01:00:18,184 --> 01:00:20,012 including blacktip and mako shark, 625 01:00:20,056 --> 01:00:24,321 which is a vulnerable species known for very high mercury levels. 626 01:00:24,364 --> 01:00:27,498 We also found traces of blacktips, scalloped hammerheads, 627 01:00:27,541 --> 01:00:31,023 milk and blue shark DNA in the beauty care products we tested. 628 01:00:43,166 --> 01:00:44,515 ROB: Fishing study have showed 629 01:00:44,558 --> 01:00:45,777 that shark populations have dropped 630 01:00:45,821 --> 01:00:49,085 an estimated 90% in the last 30 years. 631 01:00:49,128 --> 01:00:51,957 100 million sharks get killed every year, and nobody notices. 632 01:00:53,306 --> 01:00:54,699 It is astronomical. 633 01:00:59,530 --> 01:01:01,750 And this is a huge consumer awareness issue 634 01:01:01,793 --> 01:01:03,490 that can be fought and can be won. 635 01:01:09,801 --> 01:01:12,151 We're not just killing sharks for shark fin soup, 636 01:01:12,195 --> 01:01:16,112 we're killing sharks for a myriad of crazy reasons. 637 01:01:16,155 --> 01:01:19,637 Sharks are now being killed and renamed, and fed to us, 638 01:01:19,681 --> 01:01:21,726 things like rock salmon and flake, 639 01:01:21,770 --> 01:01:23,728 so we don't know we're eating shark. 640 01:01:23,772 --> 01:01:26,339 Sharks are also turning up in pet food, 641 01:01:26,383 --> 01:01:30,604 live stock feed, fertilizer, and even in cosmetics. 642 01:01:30,648 --> 01:01:34,391 We're smearing endangered superpredators on our faces without knowing it. 643 01:01:50,059 --> 01:01:51,713 So it's important for all of us, 644 01:01:51,756 --> 01:01:54,237 if we want to ensure a healthy environment into the future, 645 01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:56,413 to make sure that things we buy, 646 01:01:56,456 --> 01:01:59,416 the foods we buy, the cosmetics, are shark-free. 647 01:02:03,115 --> 01:02:04,943 Insist in a world that's shark-free, 648 01:02:04,987 --> 01:02:07,772 and insist that your cosmetics, your fertilizers, 649 01:02:07,816 --> 01:02:09,600 your pet food, your livestock feed, 650 01:02:09,643 --> 01:02:11,907 doesn't contain shark or shark parts. 651 01:03:51,136 --> 01:03:52,616 These are rebreathers. 652 01:03:52,659 --> 01:03:54,270 They recirculate the air that you breathe 653 01:03:54,313 --> 01:03:56,881 and inject the quantity of gasses that you want, 654 01:03:56,925 --> 01:03:58,665 depending on the depth that you're going to. 655 01:03:58,709 --> 01:04:00,929 In that way, you get a lot closer to fish and sharks 656 01:04:00,972 --> 01:04:02,582 because you don't make bubbles, 657 01:04:02,626 --> 01:04:05,107 which are very scary for animals like that. 658 01:04:05,150 --> 01:04:06,848 Uh, and you could stay a lot longer. 659 01:04:06,891 --> 01:04:09,981 You could stay down for six hours almost. 660 01:04:10,025 --> 01:04:12,462 As long as you want or need to. 661 01:04:12,505 --> 01:04:15,552 So we're gonna use this new technology to go deeper than we've ever been before 662 01:04:15,595 --> 01:04:19,208 to film a creature that people have rarely seen in the wild, 663 01:04:19,251 --> 01:04:22,037 the sawfish, one of the most endangered sharks in the world. 664 01:04:23,168 --> 01:04:26,258 WILL: So, I'm... I'm gonna save a splash. 665 01:04:26,302 --> 01:04:28,782 Still sitting 46 feet off my mark, 666 01:04:28,826 --> 01:04:31,873 so I think we're secure as I can get us. 667 01:04:32,743 --> 01:04:34,005 Let's do it. 668 01:07:47,938 --> 01:07:49,896 COAST GUARD: Mayday, mayday, mayday. 669 01:07:52,682 --> 01:07:54,379 COAST GUARD: This is United States Coast Guard 670 01:07:54,423 --> 01:07:56,381 communication station sector key west. 671 01:07:56,425 --> 01:07:58,644 We request a boat. We need assistance. Over. 672 01:08:01,169 --> 01:08:03,910 REPORTER 1: Watch standers at Sector Key West Command Center 673 01:08:03,954 --> 01:08:06,565 received a report of a missing diver. 674 01:08:06,609 --> 01:08:09,568 The diver is identified as 37-year-old Robert Stewart 675 01:08:09,612 --> 01:08:11,309 from Toronto, Canada. 676 01:08:11,353 --> 01:08:13,355 REPORTER 2: Canadian filmmaker has gone missing 677 01:08:13,398 --> 01:08:15,270 while diving in Florida. 678 01:08:15,313 --> 01:08:17,446 The US Coast Guard is searching for Rob Stewart right now 679 01:08:17,489 --> 01:08:19,883 off the coast of the... 680 01:08:19,926 --> 01:08:21,972 REPORTER 3: Florida Keys. The US Coast Guard tells us they're using a helicopter, 681 01:08:22,015 --> 01:08:23,974 a boat, a team of divers, 682 01:08:24,017 --> 01:08:26,759 and in the last hour, they've just added a plane to that search. 683 01:08:26,803 --> 01:08:28,848 The Coast Guard says... 684 01:08:28,892 --> 01:08:30,198 REPORTER 4: Stewart and four others were diving into Florida Keys 685 01:08:30,241 --> 01:08:31,808 off the coast of Islamorada. 686 01:08:31,851 --> 01:08:33,505 As their dive came to an end, 687 01:08:33,549 --> 01:08:36,334 he resurfaced and signaled that he was fine. 688 01:08:38,206 --> 01:08:40,425 REPORTER 5: Stewart disappeared while the boat crew attended 689 01:08:40,469 --> 01:08:42,123 to his instructor 690 01:08:42,166 --> 01:08:44,386 who had exited the water but then collapsed on deck. 691 01:08:44,429 --> 01:08:47,867 The friend said that he jumped in, but couldn't find him. 692 01:08:47,911 --> 01:08:50,435 He wasn't seen again. 693 01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:53,046 REPORTER 6: Three days later, the search continues, 694 01:08:53,090 --> 01:08:57,877 including hundreds of volunteers in small craft, helicopters and airplanes. 695 01:08:57,921 --> 01:09:01,490 His worried parents pray that he's found alive. 696 01:09:01,533 --> 01:09:03,187 BRIAN STEWART: It doesn't look great. 697 01:09:03,231 --> 01:09:06,799 But we've got... He's the kind of person that would survive. 698 01:09:06,843 --> 01:09:08,975 SANDRA STEWART: He's super fit and he's a great swimmer. 699 01:09:09,019 --> 01:09:10,890 And he's done thousands of dives. 700 01:09:17,593 --> 01:09:19,899 REPORTER 7: T he body of missing Toronto filmmaker, Rob Stewart, 701 01:09:19,943 --> 01:09:23,164 has been found in the waters off of Florida Keys. 702 01:09:23,207 --> 01:09:26,341 REPORTER 8: Tributes have been paid to the Canadian filmmaker and campaigner, 703 01:09:26,384 --> 01:09:29,474 Rob Stewart, who's died while diving off Florida. 704 01:09:29,518 --> 01:09:31,563 Rob Stewart won many awards for... 705 01:09:45,621 --> 01:09:47,492 REPORTER 12: Deep sadness in Toronto today 706 01:09:47,536 --> 01:09:49,494 at the funeral of Robert Stewart, 707 01:09:49,538 --> 01:09:53,324 an acclaimed filmmaker and ocean conservationist who died at sea. 708 01:09:53,368 --> 01:09:55,457 Stewart's known worldwide for... 709 01:09:55,500 --> 01:09:59,156 REPORTER 13: The family has received messages of support from across the world. 710 01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:03,334 Family and friends say Stewart's job is not done yet. 711 01:10:03,378 --> 01:10:06,729 BRIAN: We should be so thankful that in this little galaxy of stars 712 01:10:06,772 --> 01:10:08,513 that our life is and our friends are, 713 01:10:08,557 --> 01:10:12,648 that we had a son like Rob at the center of it. 714 01:10:12,691 --> 01:10:15,390 SANDRA: I think his real legacy will be all of these other people 715 01:10:15,433 --> 01:10:18,131 that he inspired who will carry his work forward. 716 01:10:28,490 --> 01:10:29,926 ROB: It was an amazing journey. 717 01:10:34,322 --> 01:10:36,846 It was very much a learning process for me 718 01:10:36,889 --> 01:10:39,022 all the way along. 719 01:10:39,065 --> 01:10:42,504 Because in the beginning, it was sort of, like, "What? We're all gonna die?" 720 01:10:42,547 --> 01:10:44,767 All the way through, you know, trying to figure out, 721 01:10:44,810 --> 01:10:46,725 you know, how we're gonna save ourselves. 722 01:10:50,425 --> 01:10:52,688 But seeing all the destruction that humans had wrought 723 01:10:52,731 --> 01:10:56,822 on ecosystems and species and the lack of care that was coming, 724 01:10:56,866 --> 01:11:01,218 I sort of developed a distrust and dislike of humanity at times. 725 01:11:06,179 --> 01:11:07,746 And then, through making this movie 726 01:11:07,790 --> 01:11:10,401 trying to educate humanity about what's happening to sharks 727 01:11:10,445 --> 01:11:12,751 and seeing them take that cause and fight for it, 728 01:11:12,795 --> 01:11:13,926 particularly kids, 729 01:11:13,970 --> 01:11:16,886 it really instilled a lot more hope, 730 01:11:16,929 --> 01:11:19,497 and made me love humanity a lot more than I could before. 731 01:11:24,372 --> 01:11:26,809 We still have a bright future if we want it, 732 01:11:26,852 --> 01:11:29,159 but we've got to do something now. 733 01:13:51,388 --> 01:13:54,609 YOUNG ROB: I'm in to save the turtle! Whoo! 734 01:14:20,852 --> 01:14:24,769 I'm standing in front of Darwin's Arch at Darwin's Island. 735 01:14:24,813 --> 01:14:26,858 This is Darwin's Arch, right? 736 01:14:26,902 --> 01:14:28,686 And Darwin Island? 737 01:14:28,730 --> 01:14:31,820 Now this is the mecca of diving... 738 01:14:33,038 --> 01:14:34,170 I lost it. 739 01:14:35,258 --> 01:14:36,607 Like I ever had it. 740 01:14:39,567 --> 01:14:42,526 ROB: When I started out, I wanted to bring people closer to sharks 741 01:14:42,570 --> 01:14:44,354 than they'd ever been before, 742 01:14:44,397 --> 01:14:46,574 so that, you know, they could actually see an interaction to sharks 743 01:14:46,617 --> 01:14:48,532 they've never seen before and truly understand them. 744 01:14:51,579 --> 01:14:53,624 'Cause when elephant falls for ivory in Africa 745 01:14:53,668 --> 01:14:55,539 and the world goes crazy. 746 01:14:55,583 --> 01:14:57,410 Elephants kill 200 people a year. 747 01:14:57,454 --> 01:14:59,891 Sharks kill five people a year. 748 01:14:59,935 --> 01:15:02,241 We kill 100 million of them, and nobody notices. 749 01:15:05,593 --> 01:15:08,030 The reality behind sharks is that they're not predators of people. 750 01:15:08,073 --> 01:15:09,814 If sharks, you know, ate people, 751 01:15:09,858 --> 01:15:11,773 the oceans would be a really dangerous place, 752 01:15:11,816 --> 01:15:14,036 and people would be getting eaten every day. But they're not. 753 01:15:14,079 --> 01:15:17,909 I think what's unfair and irresponsible is wiping out 90% 754 01:15:17,953 --> 01:15:20,129 of the most important longest-lasting predator the planet has 755 01:15:20,172 --> 01:15:21,304 for the sake of soup. 756 01:15:23,567 --> 01:15:25,395 Thank you, everyone, 757 01:15:25,438 --> 01:15:28,703 for being part of the largest rally for climate change in history. 758 01:15:29,617 --> 01:15:31,183 This cannot end today. 759 01:15:31,227 --> 01:15:32,924 This energy is amazing, 760 01:15:32,968 --> 01:15:34,970 and you've got to bring it forth into everything that you do. 761 01:15:35,013 --> 01:15:37,059 That's nothing more important than conservation 762 01:15:37,102 --> 01:15:39,191 because conservation is the preservation 763 01:15:39,235 --> 01:15:41,063 of human life on Earth. 764 01:15:44,153 --> 01:15:47,199 People don't understand how ecosystems work because they never taught it. 765 01:15:47,243 --> 01:15:48,853 I mean, if you look at the education system, 766 01:15:48,897 --> 01:15:50,507 why are taught Shakespeare and Algebra 767 01:15:50,551 --> 01:15:52,553 before we're taught conservation 768 01:15:52,596 --> 01:15:54,032 or we're taught how to survive on the planet? 769 01:15:54,076 --> 01:15:56,078 Especially if we know by mid-century 770 01:15:56,121 --> 01:15:58,254 that our survival is very much in jeopardy. 771 01:16:00,778 --> 01:16:01,953 High-five. 772 01:16:01,997 --> 01:16:03,520 ROB: This stuff's important. 773 01:16:03,564 --> 01:16:06,392 We depend on the oceans to survive. We depend on life. 774 01:16:06,436 --> 01:16:09,961 It's life that gives us our food, our water and our air. 775 01:16:14,400 --> 01:16:15,880 This is it. This is it. 776 01:16:15,924 --> 01:16:18,753 This is the generation. This is the task of your time. 777 01:16:18,796 --> 01:16:21,843 Are we gonna save the ecosystems we depend on for survival 778 01:16:21,886 --> 01:16:23,801 or are we gonna live in lack and starvation 779 01:16:23,845 --> 01:16:26,848 and crisis and fight each other over what's left? 780 01:16:26,891 --> 01:16:30,068 I believe entirely that we are all morally bound together, 781 01:16:30,112 --> 01:16:32,201 and that if we are made aware of these issues, 782 01:16:32,244 --> 01:16:34,116 we'll make different decisions. 783 01:16:34,159 --> 01:16:35,770 Be conscious of what you eat, 784 01:16:35,813 --> 01:16:38,816 where you put your garbage, and how you live your life. 785 01:16:38,860 --> 01:16:41,123 Nothing is more important than this. 786 01:16:41,166 --> 01:16:43,168 There's never been an issue this big, 787 01:16:43,212 --> 01:16:45,518 and there's never been an issue that needs your involvement more than this. 788 01:16:45,562 --> 01:16:46,998 So, everybody, thank you. 789 01:16:51,394 --> 01:16:53,657 You've got an opportunity to become a hero. 790 01:16:53,701 --> 01:16:54,702 To be a hero.