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4 billion years ago,

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when the molten earth cooled,
a huge ocean was created.

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This sea became  
the cradle of life on earth.

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The ocean is on average two miles deep, 
and is full of life.

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The underwater world shows
a much greater diversity in shapes and colors...

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then on the mainland.

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The ocean contains creatures so delicate
like jellyfish, or as strong as whales

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Somehow it fits together.

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And we are only now beginning to understand how.

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Our growing knowledge is important.

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We cannot protect what we do not understand.

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We live, thanks to sea life.

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Here, on the islands of Balah,

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the rhythm of our lives
is the rhythm of the sea.

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We are born in a certain tide,
we die in another.

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The tides carry our boats 
towards the fish.

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It takes us back
to feed our families.

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The seasons of our lives 
hanging or of different currents...

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that lead us to the schools
of feeding fish.

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Ocean currents caused by winds
and the rotation of the earth,

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go around the world and connect
what we thought were separate seas.

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We realize now
that there is only one ocean...

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the world ocean.

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The waters of the world ocean are lapping
against the warm volcanic coastline of Hawaii.

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The same waters ripple 
in the icy inlets of Alaska...

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and barrages through the Red Sea between
Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

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Feeding these world currents
the giant kelp of California ...

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which grows to thirty centimeters and more
in a single day.

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The undersea vegetation, including the kelp
provides us with 70% of the oxygen we breathe.

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The world ocean is one
single connected system.

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For example, a current flows halfway around the world
from Australia beyond Africa

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to then join the Gulf Stream 
in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Just like the waters flow
of the world's oceans,

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so do the tides like ebb and flow
under the gravitational pull of the moon.

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Flood follows the moon in its orbit around the Earth.

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Canada's Bay of Fundy on the Atlantic coast
is famous for its immense tides.

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Up to a trillion tons of water 
enters and exits the bay at every tide.

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At high tide the water reaches up to 50 feet high.

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At low tide the coastal channels become empty
leaving behind red mud veins.

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The tides make the land rich,
the land makes the sea rich.

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While the moon's gravity
the world's oceans to depths of 1,000 feet

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the wind stirs its surface.

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Ocean waves, pushed forward by a storm
travel more sometimes more than a week,

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until they explode against the land.

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Big waves moving
at a speed of 70 miles per hour,

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rushing ahead over thousands of miles
open ocean.

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When these waves hit the Oregon coast
approaching, to Cape Disappointment,

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Do they keep the U.S. Coast Guard busy.

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Here they learn high wave rescues.

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The first thing the cadets on 
learning this school is... humility.

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Over the past two centuries,

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a thousand vessels have been lost
gone to Cape Disappointment.

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When the waves are small Oscar loves,
our search and rescue dummy, from swimming in the sea.

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- Man overboard starboard side!
- Darrell... you have my pointer.

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Search and rescue on a calm sea
is not a problem but...

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we must be able to do the work of salvation
with waves of 5 meters high. That's hard work.

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They say that with a 5 meter high wave
about 200 tons of water can fall on a boat.

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The size and power of the ocean
dominate our planet.

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For centuries, sailors feared
its destructive power.

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Today surfers meet her
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where they feel at home.

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You're riding these waves already
have traveled thousands and thousands of miles.

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You know, you're at the mercy of it 
at the mercy of the ocean.

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You are beneath the waves and...

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you hear the rocks rolling on the ocean floor...

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you hear the thunder... of the waves...

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it's wonderful, you know.

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It would be nice to see the waves
to meet forever.

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Despite her great strength,

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encourages the sea to reflect.

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What is our place in the
immensity of the ocean?

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For me the ocean has
always had a special meaning,

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precisely because you are close to nature.

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There is so much life around you
under the ocean ---

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is there fish --- are there dolphins and are
there are whales --- there are sharks, and...

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Who knows what else is around you and
swims beneath you.

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There it is when you feel as one...

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you melt and really feel 
be part of the ocean,

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what a great feeling, 

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but you have to look at it now too...

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when, long ago, it was a natural
feeling was --- an ocean person.

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Our relationship with the sea
is rarely very deep.

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The most contact with the ocean
takes place on the surface.

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We are attracted by the ocean,

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but how threatens the increasing human
presence the health of the living sea?

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To determine this
we have to look beneath the surface.

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Scientists at the
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute...

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use remotely controlled submarines
to study the ocean,

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and measure our influence on it.

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We call it an ROV,

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but officially it is one
on 'remotely operated vehicle'.

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It's the underwater equivalent
of a NASA spaceship.

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Head of the 'Deep Sea Project'
ocean explorer Bruce Robison.

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Vehicle sails 189,

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vehicle depth — 10 meters, still sinking.

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When the ROV has dropped to 500 meters,
it enters the world below.

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While we are on the surface
stay on the mothership,

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the ROV dives and dispatches us
live video images.

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During many dives we find species
that have never been seen by anyone.

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Now, 500 meters.

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Is that the same species?
that you and George described?

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I think so, but we look at it from the side,
then it appears to have a different configuration.

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Here, I'm showing it on a larger monitor.

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Hey, what's this on the sonar screen?

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During this dive our sonar
seen something big.

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About half the length
of a football field.

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It was our first time
this type of Siphonophor saws.

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We focus on his head.

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Look at the detail of that head.

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You can see how the swimming bubbles pulsate
and the valves close after ejection,

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so that water does not go back in.


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The Siphonophors is one of the
most remarkable animals on earth.

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It looks like science fiction,

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but it isn't.

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It consists of hundreds
separate specialized individuals.

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The swimming bubbles are separate
units, as well as the stomachs,

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and also the reproductive units.

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This animal is so big,

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that it is difficult to imagine
that they are separate cooperating units.

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How many other creatures like
the Siphonophor exist?

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And what do they tell us about
the vitality of the sea?

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The middle ocean segment is enormous.

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And we only have a small part left
of its volume studied.

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We still have a lot of work to do.

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All over the world...

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scientists find evidence of the 
connections that connect the living sea.

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What we do in one place has
influence the entire ocean.

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Researchers are studying near San Diego
the effects of pollution on kelp forests,

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which are the breeding grounds for fish species.

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In the central part of the Pacific Ocean
giant clams weigh up to 100 kilograms...

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but threatened with extinction
due to overfishing.

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Scientists studied
the breeding cycle of these shells.

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An adult clam is both male
as female and lays out millions of eggs,

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followed by more cum.

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By using simple techniques
Scientists can allow these shells to spawn.

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They now produce over one million
seashells per year.

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Here at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
in central California,

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bond sea otters, who lost their parents,
adhere to their human trainer.

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I'm trying to teach the baby otter
hunting for food...

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It started to think of me as its mother.

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And after a year it's hard for me to 
to bring the baby otter home --- the open ocean.

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Just like the sea otter was the humpback whale
almost extinct due to hunting.

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In Bar Harbor Maine, Dr. Steve Katona
a team studying the humpback whale.

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The underside of the humpback whale's jawbone
is like a fingerprint ---

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There are no two with the same drawing.

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That enables Steve Katona
to follow them.

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The first time a whale has been photographed
a name and number are given,

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that is shared with others
research stations along the Atlantic Ocean.

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By comparing our photos with notifications
we follow the migrations of the whales.

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Wrong pattern.

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Once the whales have been identified
can we count them?

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There is no question that the limitations
do their work whaling.

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There are now 12,000 worldwide
and their numbers are growing.

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Humpback whale population growth
is a measure of our growing love for the sea.

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On an isolated group of islands
This wisdom, this love, is called tradition.

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The remote archipelago of Palau,
near the equator, east of the Philippines,

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gives scientists a rare look
on the disappearing underwater world.

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These waters contain more species of marine life
than anywhere on earth.

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Historically, Palau had little contact
with the outside world.

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Palau maintains a tradition
of deep respect for the sea.

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Our ancestors lived for 3,000 years
in harmony with the sea,

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never taking more than what they needed.

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Each family worked a piece of reef.
They treated the reef like a garden.

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I am Francis Toribiong.

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Despite the fact that he is old
my father still swims in the reef with me.

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Our waters are protected
through a barrier reef.

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That's why we do so much
fish and marine life.

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I was born near the sea.

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When I was a boy
I made wood pieces.

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After the old men us
learned an old legend,

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we tried the story
to bring life to a piece of wood.

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This one here is about the origins
of these islands.

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All stories are about us
ancestors.

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We are islanders and
our lives belong to the sea.

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Sometimes I think that the traditional practices
are still the best.

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Even today my children have
one foot in the old world and one in the new.

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I'm trying to learn the old ways
to my daughter Julie and my son Wes.

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It's good for me if they like speedboats
as long as they respect the sea.

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Today I'm taking my kids to
an island they have never seen before.

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We have more than 200 rock islands
our waters. We call them floating gardens.

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Mostly we do scuba diving for fun,
but it is also a form of courtship.

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I hope so too my children
fall in love with the sea.

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We are lucky today. It's the first time
that my children saw a coral fish.

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The coral fish is very shy
and also very intelligent.

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It can change its spots to communicate
with other coral fish or as camouflage.

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Because it is a type of squid, the coral fish can 
spraying out a thick cloud of ink.

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That's why we don't get too close.

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Coral looks like a plant
but it really is an animal.

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When coral dies
it becomes like a stone.

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All new coral is growing
on top of the old skeletons.

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Coral reefs grow continuously.

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They are the largest structures made
by living beings, even by us.

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We know what happened in 
other parts of the sea, this touches our waters.

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Far away, great fishing boat factories lead,
lots of groupers to tuna.

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Well, we rarely see this fish near our reef.

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It's all one ocean.

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This is what I teach my children today.

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Scientists come here too
like to learn.

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They say that our coral reefs, our fish,
and our marine life still have many secrets.

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We fly south from the main island
to one of the most bizarre...

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and potentially most dangerous
diving sites throughout Palau.

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With me is marine biologist Bill Hamner
and his wife Peggy.

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My name is Laura Martin.

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I will stay here for five years...

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to one of the strangest creatures of
to study all the islands.

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It lives here, in this country
surrounded saltwater lake.

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Strangely enough, we have enough of this anymore
studied to learn from the world ocean.

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At the end of the last ice age,
when the sea level rose,

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salt water filled the lake.
Because it is small and enclosed,

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what we call a closed system,
this is more of a test tube for scientific research.

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Ocean species have been here for thousands of years 
stuck in this saltwater lake.

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Today is my first visit...

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and I'm a little nervous.

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When you swim in a crowd of millions
jellyfish, you can expect to be stung.

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But you won't get stung.

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These jellyfish have their needs 
to stab lost.

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Gathering every morning 
more than a million jellyfish...

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and travel together across the lake,

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swimming almost a mile a day.

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They follow the same path and
same schedule every day,

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you can set your watch correctly on it.

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And yet, this organism, without eyes, without brain, 
that follows a complex migration pattern.

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How do they do it?

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These jellyfish follow the sun...

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because in their body, each of them, a crop
contains algae, which is their only form of food.

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It's roughly the same as going around
with a portable vegetable garden.

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The algae need sunlight to grow.

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Most jellyfish are hunters
stab their prey and then eat them.

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These jellyfish are farmers
and therefore no longer sting.

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We discovered that there were three separate ones
depth layers are in the lake.

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The top layer is like seawater.

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The middle layer is thick with red bacteria.

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Below is a highly toxic layer.

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At night the jellyfish descend on these
nitrogen-rich layer of the lake...

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to fertilize their internal garden.

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When we descend into this toxic layer
to take samples,

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hydrogen sulfate enters my bloodstream
inside through my skin,

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and immediately cut off oxygen.
A diving suit is not protection.

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If we stayed here for five minutes
this could be fatal.

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We only stayed 45 seconds.

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These jellyfish, that Laura Martin
will study over the next five years,

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exhibit a remarkable manner
of adjustment.

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They lived millions of centuries
before the time of the dinosaurs.

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And yet they are among the most
vulnerable creatures on earth.

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The ocean contains creatures 
as delicate as jellyfish,

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or as powerful as whales.

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Somehow this fits together,

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and we are only beginning to understand how.

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Our growing knowledge is important.
We cannot protect what we do not understand.

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We love deeply what we understand.

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Here, on the islands of Palau,

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respect for the sea has been passed on
from mother to daughter,

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from father to son.

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It's etched into our story design:
once a woman had a growing baby, the story goes.

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The child grew so big,
that she fell into the sea.

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The parts of her body
that stuck out of the water...

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became our islands of Palau.

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I love this story,

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because it tells our livers
and marine life are one whole,

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interwoven.

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Here we are islanders.
We live because the sea lives.

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It means a lot to me, that
these huge and beautiful creatures...

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who were so close to extinction,
are now coming back.

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Whale populations are a metric I use
to test the health of the ocean.

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Here we have, I think,
all reasons for hope.

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Our efforts to 
to support marine life,

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have made the difference.

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Nevertheless, scientists have shown
that marine life is very fragile...

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more than we thought.

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Because the land we live on
is only a fraction of the earth's surface,

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are we all islanders,
wherever we live ---

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for rain, for food,
even for the air we breathe,

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we all depend on it
the health of the ocean.

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All life on earth is celebration
of the living sea.

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Translated by Eggy.