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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.
321
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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.
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So nothing is stupid or primitive
in these animals.
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So all the ideas,
well, they just follow a blood trail,
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they just bite everything that is shiny.
342
00:22:13,181 --> 00:22:17,560
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.
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The crocodile is protected.
347
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No?
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The sharks not?
349
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Yeah?
350
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Yeah?
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So I should not...
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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.
354
00:23:23,210 --> 00:23:25,921
All the greens can come around
and say that these things,
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"Let 'em live, let 'em live." Okay?
We can live on land too,
356
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but we don't go out there
and bite the bums off them, do we?
357
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But they come in here and get us.
358
00:23:34,638 --> 00:23:37,558
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.
361
00:23:44,356 --> 00:23:46,358
Well, you try swimming,
with a shark like that
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in 8 feet of water
and you'll find out,
363
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because we got no hope,
if they decide to eat us.
364
00:23:52,156 --> 00:23:55,076
But don't you think
that one effect of you going out
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00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:56,911
and capturing sharks
and talking this way
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is that you bring about
an hysteria in people,
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they're going to panic?
368
00:24:00,832 --> 00:24:02,459
No, I've saved a lot of lives.
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00:24:02,542 --> 00:24:05,920
If it wasn't for me
and what I've done in the last 25 years,
370
00:24:06,004 --> 00:24:07,672
there'd be a lot more people killed.
371
00:24:21,853 --> 00:24:25,106
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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Most sharks have teeth
which are ineffective cutting tools,
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and can't effectively remove flesh
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from something larger
than their mouths.
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00:24:40,121 --> 00:24:42,123
One hundred needles in your leg
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00:24:42,207 --> 00:24:45,585
would have a tough time
removing a chunk of flesh.
378
00:24:45,668 --> 00:24:48,671
Most sharks lack
the equipment they'd need
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00:24:48,755 --> 00:24:53,009
to go after large animals like us,
and they know that.
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They've evolved
to eat certain prey items,
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00:24:56,137 --> 00:24:58,390
and most sharks are picky eaters.
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They won't bother wasting energy
383
00:25:01,893 --> 00:25:05,063
going after something
they know they can't eat efficiently.
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00:25:06,773 --> 00:25:08,817
When a shark mistake does happen,
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00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:12,737
the person inevitably
ends up back on shore.
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00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:15,698
In most shark attacks,
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flesh is never removed.
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00:25:17,867 --> 00:25:20,537
Even in the odd case
where someone dies,
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00:25:20,620 --> 00:25:22,997
it's usually because of blood loss,
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not because the shark
ate the person.
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00:25:25,584 --> 00:25:28,879
A twelve-foot
or even a six-foot fish
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could do anything it wanted
to a human,
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00:25:31,966 --> 00:25:33,384
and they don't.
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00:25:33,467 --> 00:25:37,012
It's a huge testament
to sharks' sensory systems
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00:25:37,096 --> 00:25:39,181
how few people
are attacked each year.
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00:25:39,265 --> 00:25:42,685
You wouldn't go for a run
next to a pride of lions,
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00:25:42,768 --> 00:25:45,604
but we do this with sharks
all the time.
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00:25:45,688 --> 00:25:48,274
There are millions of people
entering the water every year
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00:25:48,357 --> 00:25:50,109
in areas where sharks hunt,
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00:25:50,192 --> 00:25:52,361
and very few people are bitten.
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00:25:52,445 --> 00:25:55,072
If they wanted to eat us,
they would.
402
00:26:01,287 --> 00:26:04,373
The mythology about sharks
has traditionally been,
403
00:26:04,457 --> 00:26:07,376
uh, they're kind of
the embodiment of evil
404
00:26:07,460 --> 00:26:10,379
and they have sharp teeth
and they kill people.
405
00:26:10,463 --> 00:26:15,217
But the fact is,
people used to think of whales that way,
406
00:26:15,301 --> 00:26:18,721
whales used to be
dangerous Leviathans.
407
00:26:18,804 --> 00:26:21,140
I mean,
just read Moby Dick, you know.
408
00:26:21,223 --> 00:26:23,893
Moby Dick was portrayed
by Captain Ahab
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00:26:23,976 --> 00:26:26,729
as being a monster of the deep.
410
00:26:26,812 --> 00:26:28,731
You know, a man hunter.
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00:26:33,194 --> 00:26:35,071
But everything in the environment,
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00:26:35,154 --> 00:26:37,448
everything that exists,
eats something else.
413
00:26:50,669 --> 00:26:53,130
We tend to be afraid
of spiders and snakes,
414
00:26:53,214 --> 00:26:55,675
but, you know,
we love puppy dogs and seals.
415
00:26:57,928 --> 00:27:01,556
Once people see whales or sharks
in a different light,
416
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,433
they can change their mind.
417
00:27:03,517 --> 00:27:04,935
These are beautiful creatures,
418
00:27:05,018 --> 00:27:07,020
absolutely beautiful creatures
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00:27:07,104 --> 00:27:10,565
that have every right in the world
to live on this planet.
420
00:27:58,864 --> 00:28:01,700
I went to all the major
conservation organizations
421
00:28:01,783 --> 00:28:06,747
and there was virtually no one
doing anything to save sharks.
422
00:28:06,830 --> 00:28:08,832
Are you really concerned
or you just wanna call names?
423
00:28:08,915 --> 00:28:10,292
Oh, I am very concerned,
extremely concerned.
424
00:28:10,375 --> 00:28:13,003
Well, then, let's see some action
instead of all of this whining.
425
00:28:13,086 --> 00:28:15,505
Then I met up with Paul Watson.
426
00:28:15,589 --> 00:28:17,257
What is my type, sir?
427
00:28:17,340 --> 00:28:20,052
- The renegade
of the conservation movement.
428
00:28:21,762 --> 00:28:24,598
He sunk a whole Norwegian
whaling fleet
429
00:28:24,681 --> 00:28:28,311
and ended pirate whaling
in the North Atlantic
430
00:28:28,394 --> 00:28:30,688
when no one else could.
431
00:28:30,772 --> 00:28:33,357
Paul was one of the original
activists in Greenpeace
432
00:28:33,441 --> 00:28:36,611
and he's been at war against poaching
for 30 years.
433
00:28:36,694 --> 00:28:38,863
I set up the Sea Shepherd
Conservation Society in 1977
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00:28:38,946 --> 00:28:41,240
as an organization
to intervene directly
435
00:28:41,324 --> 00:28:44,452
to uphold international conservation
laws, regulations and treaties,
436
00:28:44,535 --> 00:28:47,246
so it's not a protest organization,
437
00:28:47,330 --> 00:28:50,458
but an organization
to really fill a vacuum,
438
00:28:50,541 --> 00:28:54,879
because there really is no enforcement
agencies anywhere in the world
439
00:28:54,962 --> 00:28:57,757
to uphold these international
laws and treaties.
440
00:29:04,514 --> 00:29:06,641
They're trying to sink the ship;
441
00:29:06,724 --> 00:29:08,393
they are trying to sink the ship.
442
00:29:08,476 --> 00:29:11,896
So part of the role of the activist,
like Paul Watson, is:
443
00:29:11,979 --> 00:29:14,273
"Don't let them get away with it,
444
00:29:14,357 --> 00:29:16,692
or make 'em do it in the light of day."
445
00:29:16,776 --> 00:29:18,069
He's a hero,
446
00:29:18,152 --> 00:29:20,905
someone who just does
447
00:29:20,988 --> 00:29:23,699
what the politicians
haven't got the guts to do.
448
00:29:23,783 --> 00:29:25,326
Captain Paul Watson
449
00:29:25,410 --> 00:29:27,286
leads possibly the most violent,
450
00:29:27,370 --> 00:29:30,581
and radical, green movement
in the world.
451
00:29:30,665 --> 00:29:34,001
- Well, if you kill anybody,
I'm holding you personally responsible.
452
00:29:34,085 --> 00:29:37,797
You have no authority over us,
we're in international waters. Over.
453
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,091
Move aside, get 'em!
454
00:29:43,636 --> 00:29:46,931
Launched from the gunboat,
police attack Sea Shepherd
455
00:29:47,014 --> 00:29:50,184
with tear gas bullets
and tear gas canisters.
456
00:29:50,268 --> 00:29:55,106
It's the first time in history
that an unarmed conservation vessel
457
00:29:55,189 --> 00:29:57,151
has been fired at.
458
00:29:59,403 --> 00:30:02,531
- No, really what we're here to do
is to, you know,
459
00:30:02,614 --> 00:30:06,243
to rock the boat, to make noise;
to make people think.
460
00:30:06,326 --> 00:30:08,287
That's really the main objective
461
00:30:08,370 --> 00:30:10,330
of the Sea Shepherd
Conservation Society.
462
00:30:14,126 --> 00:30:16,378
Why aren't you people
doing anything?
463
00:30:20,049 --> 00:30:21,884
The only violence
that's being committed
464
00:30:21,967 --> 00:30:23,552
is the illegal slaughter of whales,
465
00:30:23,635 --> 00:30:27,347
and that is violent
and that is the crime. Over.
466
00:30:42,654 --> 00:30:44,740
Paul and Sea Shepherd
were launching a campaign
467
00:30:44,823 --> 00:30:49,286
against poaching in two of the world's
last sanctuaries for sharks:
468
00:30:49,369 --> 00:30:51,163
The Galapagos, Ecuador,
469
00:30:51,246 --> 00:30:54,416
and in Cocos, Costa Rica.
470
00:30:56,293 --> 00:30:58,837
Cocos is a tiny island
in the middle of the Pacific,
471
00:30:58,921 --> 00:31:02,174
360 miles from Costa Rica.
472
00:31:02,257 --> 00:31:05,386
It's a national park
and a world heritage site
473
00:31:05,469 --> 00:31:08,764
with the greatest concentration
of sharks in the world.
474
00:31:11,266 --> 00:31:13,852
But Costa Rica has no money
to protect it,
475
00:31:13,936 --> 00:31:15,896
and poachers
raid the waters every day.
476
00:31:15,979 --> 00:31:18,565
No, it's been cut in the head!
477
00:31:18,649 --> 00:31:20,192
The sharks were being wiped out.
478
00:31:20,275 --> 00:31:23,112
Well, Jesus Christ,
put it out of its misery.
479
00:31:31,746 --> 00:31:35,625
So the President of Costa Rica
asked Sea Shepherd for help.
480
00:31:37,127 --> 00:31:39,421
Why, it's illegal as well.
481
00:31:39,504 --> 00:31:42,465
Paul was my kinda guy,
the only one I knew
482
00:31:42,549 --> 00:31:45,760
who was doing anything
to save sharks.
483
00:31:45,844 --> 00:31:50,223
He asked me to join the campaign
to stop the illegal fishing of sharks.
484
00:31:50,306 --> 00:31:51,599
Okay.
485
00:31:54,227 --> 00:31:56,062
I joined Paul in Los Angeles
486
00:31:56,146 --> 00:31:58,857
aboard the Sea Shepherd ship,
the Ocean Warrior,
487
00:31:58,940 --> 00:32:00,942
and we started our journey south,
488
00:32:01,025 --> 00:32:04,112
3,000 miles to Costa Rica.
489
00:32:06,573 --> 00:32:10,410
They repaint and rename the boat
on every new campaign
490
00:32:10,493 --> 00:32:13,580
to avoid being recognized
by the poachers.
491
00:32:13,663 --> 00:32:17,751
The Ocean Warrior has been
in battle against poachers
492
00:32:17,834 --> 00:32:20,545
dozens of times
and proudly displays its kill flags,
493
00:32:20,628 --> 00:32:24,257
the flags of boats it has rammed
or sunk, on the side of the ship.
494
00:32:24,340 --> 00:32:26,468
It's equipped with a can opener,
495
00:32:26,551 --> 00:32:28,094
a hydraulic steel blade
496
00:32:28,178 --> 00:32:30,805
that extends from the side of the boat
in case of battle.
497
00:32:34,350 --> 00:32:39,147
We traveled south on the open ocean
for 12 days straight.
498
00:32:42,525 --> 00:32:46,446
2,500 miles from Los Angeles
and 50 miles inside Guatemalan waters,
499
00:32:46,529 --> 00:32:49,824
we found a pirate long-lining boat
illegally poaching sharks.
500
00:32:49,908 --> 00:32:53,870
Doesn't take much
to catch illegal fishing around here,
501
00:32:53,953 --> 00:32:55,371
I'll tell ya.
502
00:32:55,455 --> 00:32:56,831
Jesus Christ,
503
00:32:56,915 --> 00:32:58,416
they're going slower.
504
00:32:59,877 --> 00:33:03,756
The Varadero was from Costa Rica
and had no permit
505
00:33:03,839 --> 00:33:07,385
to fish outside of Costa Rica
or inside Guatemala.
506
00:33:07,468 --> 00:33:08,803
Which way?
507
00:33:08,886 --> 00:33:10,554
We radioed Guatemala,
508
00:33:10,638 --> 00:33:13,557
who asked us to escort the boat
into port for arrest.
509
00:33:15,142 --> 00:33:18,145
We asked that they bring in their lines
and release any sharks
510
00:33:18,229 --> 00:33:20,189
that were caught,
511
00:33:20,272 --> 00:33:21,565
but they weren't releasing
the sharks.
512
00:33:21,649 --> 00:33:24,276
They're not answering?
513
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,487
We were racing them to the lines;
514
00:33:26,570 --> 00:33:30,074
every time they got ahead of us,
they killed more sharks.
515
00:33:30,408 --> 00:33:33,828
All these boats,
from many countries,
516
00:33:33,911 --> 00:33:36,038
when they go fishing,
517
00:33:36,122 --> 00:33:38,958
and that's actually
everywhere in the world,
518
00:33:39,041 --> 00:33:41,669
all they want is profit.
519
00:33:41,752 --> 00:33:43,421
Once they've left port,
520
00:33:43,504 --> 00:33:46,549
it's like the ocean is a free place;
521
00:33:46,632 --> 00:33:49,051
you do what you want out there.
522
00:33:49,135 --> 00:33:51,387
They got another shark!
523
00:33:51,470 --> 00:33:53,097
Got a shark?
524
00:33:53,180 --> 00:33:55,474
Tell that guy
to release that shark.
525
00:33:55,558 --> 00:33:58,853
Tell him that if he doesn't release
those sharks,
526
00:33:58,936 --> 00:34:01,230
we're gonna sink his line.
527
00:34:03,107 --> 00:34:05,693
Hey, Rob, did you get a picture
of that shark?
528
00:34:05,776 --> 00:34:09,363
If he doesn't stop,
we'll run up ahead and grab the line.
529
00:34:09,447 --> 00:34:11,741
Actually hold on,
I'm gonna stop right here.
530
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,422
Bring it up to the bow and see
if you can get it on the winch.
531
00:34:29,509 --> 00:34:31,261
Got their line?
Grab the line.
532
00:34:31,344 --> 00:34:34,264
If you can grab the line on...
Where's the next one?
533
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,560
Get it? Goddamn,
as fast as we get up to it,
534
00:34:38,643 --> 00:34:40,103
they're pulling it off.
535
00:34:40,187 --> 00:34:43,398
They wouldn't stop
killing sharks.
536
00:34:43,482 --> 00:34:46,777
The sharks were incredibly
important to them.
537
00:34:53,116 --> 00:34:55,786
They were killing them
for their fins.
538
00:34:57,621 --> 00:34:59,998
Shark-fin soup
is a symbol of wealth
539
00:35:00,082 --> 00:35:03,168
and served as a sign of respect.
540
00:35:03,251 --> 00:35:05,629
The soup has been around
for centuries,
541
00:35:05,712 --> 00:35:09,883
but only in the last two decades
has it boomed in popularity.
542
00:35:09,966 --> 00:35:11,718
The fin is tasteless,
543
00:35:11,802 --> 00:35:15,931
adding only texture to a soup
flavoured with chicken or pork broth.
544
00:35:16,014 --> 00:35:18,266
It became a status symbol,
545
00:35:18,350 --> 00:35:20,227
served at weddings, banquets,
546
00:35:20,310 --> 00:35:21,603
and expensive dinners.
547
00:35:21,686 --> 00:35:24,481
A single pound of fin
is worth more than $200 US,
548
00:35:24,564 --> 00:35:27,025
and the shark-fin industry
549
00:35:27,109 --> 00:35:29,569
is a billion-dollar juggernaut.
550
00:35:29,653 --> 00:35:32,781
Every year,
an estimated 30 to 70 million sharks
551
00:35:32,864 --> 00:35:35,450
are killed to support
a growing worldwide trade
552
00:35:35,534 --> 00:35:38,495
in their fins and other products.
553
00:35:38,578 --> 00:35:41,289
But the biggest prize is the shark fin.
554
00:35:41,373 --> 00:35:43,291
Half a world away,
in Hong Kong and China,
555
00:35:43,375 --> 00:35:45,085
shark-fin soup is a delicacy.
556
00:35:45,168 --> 00:35:47,337
It sells for up to $90 a bowl.
557
00:35:47,421 --> 00:35:49,548
It's a royal food;
558
00:35:49,631 --> 00:35:51,466
it's the food of the emperors.
559
00:35:51,550 --> 00:35:53,677
They make a soup out of the fins,
560
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,138
and any Chinese chef
that's worth his weight
561
00:35:56,221 --> 00:35:58,932
has to be able to make
great shark-fin soup,
562
00:35:59,015 --> 00:36:02,228
as strange as that may seem,
and this is causing the demise
563
00:36:02,311 --> 00:36:04,439
of the populations of sharks
in the ocean.
564
00:36:23,082 --> 00:36:24,542
The word was out
565
00:36:24,625 --> 00:36:26,169
that fins meant money,
566
00:36:26,252 --> 00:36:28,796
and sharks were being killed
solely for their fins
567
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:30,840
in virtually every country
with a coastline.
568
00:36:42,185 --> 00:36:44,896
There's so much money in fins,
569
00:36:44,979 --> 00:36:48,191
that only trafficking drugs
rivals fins for profit.
570
00:37:05,792 --> 00:37:09,754
People thousands of years from now,
if we manage to survive,
571
00:37:09,837 --> 00:37:12,673
aren't gonna have much respect
for cultures
572
00:37:12,757 --> 00:37:16,386
that deprived them of the things
that we now have
573
00:37:16,511 --> 00:37:17,929
that diminish their world for them.
574
00:37:18,054 --> 00:37:21,015
They're not gonna have any respect
for those cultures at all,
575
00:37:21,099 --> 00:37:24,394
just as we don't have any respect
for the culture of slavery.
576
00:37:31,985 --> 00:37:35,697
For the first time
in over 400 million years,
577
00:37:35,823 --> 00:37:37,449
sharks were prey.
578
00:37:45,749 --> 00:37:48,043
They were even killing whale sharks.
579
00:37:53,924 --> 00:37:55,718
The largest fish on Earth
580
00:37:55,801 --> 00:37:59,054
that eats only microscopic plankton
and has no teeth.
581
00:38:05,394 --> 00:38:09,690
They are the gentle giants
that roam the warm waters of the world
582
00:38:09,773 --> 00:38:11,650
following plankton blooms.
583
00:38:24,955 --> 00:38:27,708
We know nothing
about their life cycles,
584
00:38:27,791 --> 00:38:29,334
where they mate,
585
00:38:29,460 --> 00:38:31,462
or how long they live,
586
00:38:31,587 --> 00:38:34,548
though they're thought
to live as long as us.
587
00:38:42,681 --> 00:38:45,350
And now the whale shark,
along with their relatives,
588
00:38:45,434 --> 00:38:48,979
the great white shark
and the basking shark,
589
00:38:49,063 --> 00:38:50,689
are endangered.
590
00:39:13,963 --> 00:39:15,840
A large fin like this
591
00:39:15,924 --> 00:39:19,511
can now sell
for more than $10,000 in China,
592
00:39:19,594 --> 00:39:22,472
and conservationists say
the growing trade in shark fin
593
00:39:22,555 --> 00:39:25,934
has become a serious threat
not only to whale sharks,
594
00:39:26,017 --> 00:39:29,020
but also to other shark species
almost everywhere.
595
00:39:29,104 --> 00:39:31,022
By the time it gets to Asia,
596
00:39:31,106 --> 00:39:35,568
it's gonna be up to $200 US a pound
for the dry shark fin.
597
00:39:35,693 --> 00:39:38,655
So it goes from 80 cents here
to a myriad of middlemen,
598
00:39:38,738 --> 00:39:41,408
ending up at $200 US
from 80 cents,
599
00:39:41,491 --> 00:39:43,785
so it's a magical little process
600
00:39:43,868 --> 00:39:47,205
that we've gotta figure out
how it gets there.
601
00:39:47,288 --> 00:39:50,041
Yeah, it's the fin, fish.
602
00:39:50,125 --> 00:39:53,962
They make some kind of pills
of a shark fin.
603
00:39:54,045 --> 00:39:58,383
In Asia, they think
because sharks don't get sick
604
00:39:58,466 --> 00:40:01,010
as easily as other animals do
605
00:40:01,094 --> 00:40:04,639
that sharks
have some magical power to heal,
606
00:40:04,723 --> 00:40:07,267
and it's all false information
607
00:40:07,350 --> 00:40:10,437
because sharks get cancer,
sharks get problems.
608
00:40:14,149 --> 00:40:16,484
- He doesn't want us to film.
- Not allowed to film?
609
00:40:16,568 --> 00:40:19,237
He tells us to leave.
610
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,865
Uh, we just went in restaurant
Lun Fung and got kicked out.
611
00:40:21,948 --> 00:40:24,451
They do serve shark fin,
you can get it in a takeout form.
612
00:40:24,534 --> 00:40:27,537
You can even go to pharmacies
to buy shark fin in pill form,
613
00:40:27,620 --> 00:40:29,456
because of its powers
to make you strong.
614
00:40:29,539 --> 00:40:32,292
That shows you the misconceptions
everyone has about sharks,
615
00:40:32,375 --> 00:40:35,463
that they think because sharks
are resilient to some parasites,
616
00:40:35,546 --> 00:40:39,008
and they don't get sick
as often as people do,
617
00:40:39,091 --> 00:40:42,803
that if you eat sharks
that power's gonna transfer to you.
618
00:41:00,404 --> 00:41:04,825
Some companies have capitalized
on the sharks' resilience to disease,
619
00:41:04,909 --> 00:41:08,287
marketing shark cartilage
as a cancer or arthritis treatment.
620
00:41:08,370 --> 00:41:11,415
But there's no scientific backing
to this at all.
621
00:41:11,499 --> 00:41:13,084
It's actually been proven
622
00:41:13,209 --> 00:41:15,503
to do nothing to cure disease,
623
00:41:15,586 --> 00:41:18,297
and now sharks are so contaminated
with mercury and other pollutants
624
00:41:18,381 --> 00:41:20,007
we've put in the ocean
625
00:41:20,091 --> 00:41:21,509
that eating shark products
626
00:41:21,592 --> 00:41:24,470
is more likely
to cause disease than cure it.
627
00:41:33,396 --> 00:41:35,689
The Varadero
continued finning sharks
628
00:41:35,773 --> 00:41:38,109
and throwing the bodies overboard.
629
00:41:40,444 --> 00:41:42,321
We tried to talk with them:
630
00:41:42,405 --> 00:41:45,950
They are illegally fishing
and they have to come with us.
631
00:41:46,075 --> 00:41:49,745
It was easy to see their motivation,
money, big money,
632
00:41:49,829 --> 00:41:51,997
but they were poaching sharks
illegally.
633
00:41:52,081 --> 00:41:55,000
On instructions
from the authorities in Guatemala,
634
00:41:55,084 --> 00:41:58,087
we ordered them
to stop killing sharks
635
00:41:58,170 --> 00:42:00,214
and follow us into port.
Yeah, ask him.
636
00:42:00,297 --> 00:42:01,757
He's got to make a decision,
637
00:42:01,841 --> 00:42:05,762
whether we're gonna tow him
or he's going in under his own power.
638
00:42:05,887 --> 00:42:10,016
- They're dragging a shark!
- But they refused and took off.
639
00:42:10,100 --> 00:42:12,185
Now they decided to run from us.
640
00:42:12,269 --> 00:42:14,020
They know that if we take them there,
641
00:42:14,104 --> 00:42:16,857
they're gonna lose their boat there,
that's pretty sure.
642
00:42:16,940 --> 00:42:19,901
So we're gonna have to go back
and force them back.
643
00:42:19,985 --> 00:42:21,778
We chased them
with water cannons,
644
00:42:21,862 --> 00:42:24,322
in hopes of flooding
or stalling their engines.
645
00:42:24,406 --> 00:42:26,575
So we can arrest them?
646
00:42:39,588 --> 00:42:41,173
We gonna hit 'em?
647
00:42:50,807 --> 00:42:52,392
Unless people are prepared
648
00:42:52,476 --> 00:42:55,103
to devote their lives
to solving these problems,
649
00:42:55,187 --> 00:42:57,189
nothing's really going to change.
650
00:42:57,272 --> 00:42:59,232
But you don't need everybody.
651
00:43:13,497 --> 00:43:14,873
You just simply need
a small percentage.
652
00:43:14,956 --> 00:43:16,958
Five, seven percent
is starting to make a big impact.
653
00:43:19,002 --> 00:43:21,671
Okay, let's get ready.
This is gonna be close.
654
00:43:36,354 --> 00:43:38,940
The Varadero finally agreed
to follow us into port,
655
00:43:39,023 --> 00:43:41,484
where we could deliver them
to the authorities.
656
00:43:58,126 --> 00:44:00,169
About three hours from port,
we got word
657
00:44:00,253 --> 00:44:03,464
that Guatemala had sent a gunboat out
to come and arrest us.
658
00:44:07,552 --> 00:44:09,721
The Varadero
had pulled some strings.
659
00:44:09,804 --> 00:44:12,473
With so much money
in the fin industry,
660
00:44:12,557 --> 00:44:14,934
and much of it
on the black market,
661
00:44:15,017 --> 00:44:17,103
we knew something
had gone terribly wrong.
662
00:44:20,189 --> 00:44:22,358
Lives have been lost
over shark fins
663
00:44:22,483 --> 00:44:26,404
and we had no interest
in battling a Guatemalan gunboat.
664
00:44:26,487 --> 00:44:28,823
So we ditched the Varadero,
665
00:44:28,906 --> 00:44:31,159
and continued south
to Costa Rica.
666
00:44:33,244 --> 00:44:35,997
The United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization,
667
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:39,625
based in Rome,
is really the top UN body,
668
00:44:39,709 --> 00:44:42,628
the top international body
that deals with fisheries;
669
00:44:42,754 --> 00:44:46,215
they don't have
any rule-making authority
670
00:44:46,299 --> 00:44:48,051
over the international waters.
671
00:44:48,134 --> 00:44:50,344
Guess what? No one does.
672
00:44:50,428 --> 00:44:53,014
So until the countries of the world
come together
673
00:44:53,097 --> 00:44:56,476
to create some kind of body
that can actually make rules
674
00:44:56,559 --> 00:44:58,186
over the catch limits
675
00:44:58,269 --> 00:45:00,730
and conservation
for the deep seas,
676
00:45:00,813 --> 00:45:04,442
they're not going to be regulated
in any effective way.
677
00:45:04,525 --> 00:45:07,946
It's just basically
a hunting-and-gathering operation,
678
00:45:08,030 --> 00:45:10,699
and, in fact,
a pure exploitive operation,
679
00:45:10,783 --> 00:45:14,369
with people just taking
and not giving anything back.
680
00:45:14,453 --> 00:45:21,043
- Imagine if you went into the forest
and laid down some kind of trap line
681
00:45:21,126 --> 00:45:24,588
that caught, you know,
moose, deer, skunks, porcupines,
682
00:45:24,671 --> 00:45:25,714
squirrels, dogs,
683
00:45:25,798 --> 00:45:29,093
you know,
caught all these species,
684
00:45:29,176 --> 00:45:31,678
when really what you were only after
was one or two,
685
00:45:31,762 --> 00:45:34,473
or perhaps three or four,
but you had all these other species
686
00:45:34,556 --> 00:45:36,100
that were caught,
or dying or dead.
687
00:45:37,518 --> 00:45:40,104
I mean,
clearly it wouldn't last a day.
688
00:45:41,814 --> 00:45:43,232
I mean, you know,
689
00:45:43,315 --> 00:45:46,402
nobody could put a trap line down
for 30 miles
690
00:45:46,485 --> 00:45:50,155
and throw away half the animals
he or she killed or caught.
691
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,491
Nobody would tolerate it
for a minute,
692
00:45:52,574 --> 00:45:56,829
but it's going on out there
on a massive scale every day.
693
00:45:58,789 --> 00:46:00,874
Oh
694
00:46:00,958 --> 00:46:03,127
Can't anybody see
695
00:46:08,465 --> 00:46:11,093
we've got a war to fight
696
00:46:13,971 --> 00:46:16,432
Never found our way
697
00:46:18,142 --> 00:46:22,104
Regardless of what they say
698
00:46:23,814 --> 00:46:28,777
How can it feel this wrong
699
00:46:33,157 --> 00:46:35,075
From this moment
700
00:46:35,159 --> 00:46:41,458
How can it feel this wrong
701
00:47:01,770 --> 00:47:05,315
How can it feel
702
00:47:05,398 --> 00:47:07,776
This wrong
703
00:47:14,449 --> 00:47:15,742
From this moment
704
00:47:15,825 --> 00:47:20,413
How can it feel
705
00:47:20,497 --> 00:47:22,832
This wrong
706
00:47:27,879 --> 00:47:31,341
When we got to Costa Rica,
we were all over the news.
707
00:47:31,424 --> 00:47:34,761
The crew of the Varadero,
the illegal shark-fishing boat,
708
00:47:34,844 --> 00:47:37,514
claimed that we tried to kill them.
709
00:47:37,597 --> 00:47:39,891
Okay.
710
00:47:39,974 --> 00:47:42,477
I don't know what this is, either.
711
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:45,188
- You know... you know what this?
- I don't know what it is.
712
00:47:45,271 --> 00:47:47,357
- Yeah, uh...
- It's the order.
713
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,359
It's the order of the judge,
714
00:47:49,442 --> 00:47:51,903
it's the official order
to come on board
715
00:47:51,986 --> 00:47:53,238
and to make...
716
00:47:53,321 --> 00:47:58,034
We were charged
with seven counts of attempted murder.
717
00:47:58,118 --> 00:48:00,578
- Crowded in here.
- We do what we normally do,
718
00:48:00,662 --> 00:48:02,872
and the tapes went to Canada
for processing.
719
00:48:02,956 --> 00:48:06,084
They were after Paul
because he's the captain of the boat,
720
00:48:06,167 --> 00:48:09,547
and me because I filmed it
721
00:48:09,630 --> 00:48:11,716
and they wanted my footage.
722
00:48:11,799 --> 00:48:15,010
Do you have any form
to get your original information
723
00:48:15,094 --> 00:48:16,804
since the beginning
of this situation?
724
00:48:16,887 --> 00:48:18,514
Do I have any way to get that?
725
00:48:18,597 --> 00:48:20,057
- Yeah.
- No.
726
00:48:20,141 --> 00:48:23,561
- Someone else got it?
- Someone else has it.
727
00:48:23,644 --> 00:48:24,979
Okay...
728
00:48:25,062 --> 00:48:26,897
Arrest?
729
00:48:26,981 --> 00:48:28,399
Did you ask them?
730
00:48:28,482 --> 00:48:30,901
Can I ask them? Yeah, probably.
731
00:48:30,985 --> 00:48:32,403
What you have to do,
732
00:48:32,486 --> 00:48:35,906
you have to call them by phone
or what?
733
00:48:35,990 --> 00:48:39,076
- Uh, yeah.
- Could you call them, right now?
734
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:40,578
- Right now?
- Yeah.
735
00:48:40,661 --> 00:48:42,705
It's important
to get that information.
736
00:48:42,788 --> 00:48:44,081
It's better...
737
00:48:44,165 --> 00:48:47,251
They set the fishing boat free...
738
00:48:47,334 --> 00:48:49,920
and we were being arrested
739
00:48:50,004 --> 00:48:54,508
And, uh, we have all of the law,
in all of Costa Rica here,
740
00:48:54,592 --> 00:48:56,010
talking to us.
741
00:48:56,093 --> 00:48:57,595
They want to see...
742
00:48:57,678 --> 00:49:00,681
They're totally blank,
there's no pictures on them yet.
743
00:49:00,765 --> 00:49:03,601
- You sure they're not in here?
- Yeah.
744
00:49:03,684 --> 00:49:05,603
Not everyone's gonna fit;
745
00:49:05,686 --> 00:49:08,981
there's about this much room
in the whole room.
746
00:49:09,065 --> 00:49:12,610
It didn't make any sense
why they were arresting us
747
00:49:12,693 --> 00:49:15,279
and ignoring the fishing boat.
748
00:49:15,362 --> 00:49:18,199
We were invited here
by the President of the country
749
00:49:18,282 --> 00:49:20,201
to protect Cocos
from illegal fishing.
750
00:49:20,284 --> 00:49:22,870
What do you think
they're gonna do?
751
00:49:22,953 --> 00:49:24,997
I have no idea;
752
00:49:25,081 --> 00:49:27,124
I don't think they know
what they're doing.
753
00:49:27,208 --> 00:49:30,711
What kind of weapons
do you have on the boat?
754
00:49:30,795 --> 00:49:32,463
A shotgun.
755
00:49:32,546 --> 00:49:33,798
Can we see them?
756
00:49:33,881 --> 00:49:35,424
Oh, yeah, sure.
757
00:49:35,508 --> 00:49:37,218
There's just one.
758
00:49:37,301 --> 00:49:39,596
Yeah,
but there's one that's...
759
00:49:41,139 --> 00:49:43,600
It wasn't an issue
between two boats anymore.
760
00:49:45,227 --> 00:49:48,688
They were going to stop us
from protecting sharks.
761
00:49:55,404 --> 00:49:57,364
The authorities left us
under house arrest,
762
00:49:57,447 --> 00:50:00,075
but we had to fight the charges
in court.
763
00:50:03,161 --> 00:50:05,539
Questions
I need to know is, one:
764
00:50:05,622 --> 00:50:07,999
What are the chances
of them seizing the ship,
765
00:50:08,083 --> 00:50:10,585
and what are the chances
of them arresting me, today?
766
00:50:10,669 --> 00:50:12,129
We were summoned
to the courthouse,
767
00:50:12,212 --> 00:50:13,922
where we met with Milton,
our lawyer,
768
00:50:14,005 --> 00:50:17,551
to figure out our options
and try and find a way out of this.
769
00:50:17,634 --> 00:50:20,846
- How come everybody's ignoring
that the Varadero,
770
00:50:20,929 --> 00:50:23,765
one: Violated Guatemalan law,
Costa Rican law,
771
00:50:23,849 --> 00:50:27,394
and international law,
and we have the evidence on that.
772
00:50:27,477 --> 00:50:29,938
They cannot take sharks
for fins alone,
773
00:50:30,021 --> 00:50:32,149
they cannot fish
in Guatemalan waters,
774
00:50:32,232 --> 00:50:34,693
they cannot fish
outside of Costa Rica
775
00:50:34,776 --> 00:50:36,903
without a permit.
That's illegal!
776
00:50:36,987 --> 00:50:38,447
Everybody's ignoring that.
777
00:50:38,530 --> 00:50:40,115
Paul's been in this situation before,
778
00:50:40,198 --> 00:50:43,452
and he knows we're in big trouble
if we don't fight back.
779
00:50:43,535 --> 00:50:46,496
Well, the fact is, if we were
in any Central American country
780
00:50:46,580 --> 00:50:49,374
other than Costa Rica,
we wouldn't even try this.
781
00:50:49,458 --> 00:50:53,128
One other thing: If they have a trial,
is it in Puntarenas;
782
00:50:53,211 --> 00:50:57,215
and if they have a trial,
is it a jury or a judge?
783
00:50:57,299 --> 00:50:59,426
- Three judges.
- Three judges?
784
00:50:59,509 --> 00:51:02,220
- Yes
- Is it in Puntarenas?
785
00:51:02,304 --> 00:51:04,723
Oh, geez,
you don't have a chance there.
786
00:51:04,806 --> 00:51:08,226
But I find it amazing
that the Costa Rican judicial system
787
00:51:08,310 --> 00:51:11,731
is coming at us so viciously
788
00:51:11,814 --> 00:51:15,401
when what they're defending
is an illegal fishing operation.
789
00:51:15,485 --> 00:51:17,570
And, of course, when you see
790
00:51:17,653 --> 00:51:20,406
the number of long-liners
that are operating,
791
00:51:20,490 --> 00:51:23,242
including Taiwanese long-liners
operating in Costa Rica;
792
00:51:23,326 --> 00:51:25,411
and the judicial system
in Puntarenas,
793
00:51:25,495 --> 00:51:29,082
they are certainly not interested
in anything to do with illegal fishing,
794
00:51:29,165 --> 00:51:32,085
but they seem to be very determined
to stop anybody
795
00:51:32,168 --> 00:51:34,587
who's going to interfere
with illegal fishing.
796
00:51:36,339 --> 00:51:38,091
Then I met William,
797
00:51:38,174 --> 00:51:40,343
a conservationist who believed
that the authorities
798
00:51:40,426 --> 00:51:42,929
were being paid out
by the Taiwanese Mafia,
799
00:51:43,012 --> 00:51:47,183
who ran the shark-fishing business
in Costa Rica.
800
00:51:47,266 --> 00:51:50,520
Finning sharks is illegal
in Costa Rica,
801
00:51:50,603 --> 00:51:52,563
but huge shipments
of Costa Rican fins
802
00:51:52,647 --> 00:51:54,357
were turning up all over Asia
803
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:55,942
and no one knew how.
804
00:51:56,025 --> 00:51:58,444
William believed
that the Taiwanese
805
00:51:58,528 --> 00:52:00,071
had private docks
806
00:52:00,154 --> 00:52:02,782
where no one would know
if they were finning sharks.
807
00:52:04,367 --> 00:52:06,953
I needed to know
if William was right,
808
00:52:07,036 --> 00:52:08,996
if they were really finning sharks.
809
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:13,126
So we broke house arrest
and went undercover into town.
810
00:52:14,794 --> 00:52:19,006
In all our time filming sharks,
we've never been so scared.
811
00:52:20,508 --> 00:52:22,760
There was a whole street
of shark-fishing operations
812
00:52:22,844 --> 00:52:24,303
along a secluded bay,
813
00:52:24,387 --> 00:52:26,139
all with private docks.
814
00:52:32,854 --> 00:52:35,940
These plants process,
pack and distribute shark fins
815
00:52:36,023 --> 00:52:39,110
coming mostly
from Costa Rica and Ecuador.
816
00:52:39,193 --> 00:52:42,322
They dry the fins on the roof,
817
00:52:42,406 --> 00:52:45,200
behind huge cement walls,
so no one can see them.
818
00:52:45,284 --> 00:52:48,287
Virtually all of the fins
are shipped to Asia,
819
00:52:48,370 --> 00:52:50,330
making it out of Costa Rica
820
00:52:50,414 --> 00:52:52,082
without being noticed.
821
00:52:56,420 --> 00:52:59,882
This operation had fins from nearly
a dozen different species of sharks.
822
00:53:09,308 --> 00:53:14,146
There were millions of dollars in fins
and dozens of illegal operations
823
00:53:14,229 --> 00:53:17,024
that the authorities
must have known about,
824
00:53:17,107 --> 00:53:19,109
all controlled
by big business in Asia.
825
00:53:25,783 --> 00:53:29,328
The fins were bringing Costa Rica
millions of dollars
826
00:53:29,411 --> 00:53:32,164
and we were trying to stop it.
827
00:53:32,247 --> 00:53:35,459
Now I knew
why we were being arrested
828
00:53:35,542 --> 00:53:38,796
and I knew
we were in serious trouble.
829
00:53:56,480 --> 00:53:59,608
I couldn't believe
how big the shark-fin trade was,
830
00:53:59,691 --> 00:54:02,319
especially in a country
that depends on ecotourism.
831
00:54:03,821 --> 00:54:05,697
At another fin operation,
I found a trailer
832
00:54:05,781 --> 00:54:07,950
sitting next to the building
and climbed on top
833
00:54:08,033 --> 00:54:11,413
to film the fins in broad daylight.
834
00:54:11,496 --> 00:54:13,456
There were at least 10,000 fins
835
00:54:13,540 --> 00:54:16,418
drying on the roof,
and the employees ran out,
836
00:54:16,501 --> 00:54:19,462
trying to push the fins
out of sight of my camera.
837
00:54:22,507 --> 00:54:24,926
Then they stormed out of the building
and headed straight for us,
838
00:54:25,009 --> 00:54:29,264
so we jumped into William's car
and took off.
839
00:54:29,347 --> 00:54:31,099
The corruption was real;
840
00:54:31,182 --> 00:54:35,103
we'd uncovered a huge
illegal-fin industry in Costa Rica
841
00:54:35,186 --> 00:54:37,355
that the authorities ignored.
842
00:54:37,439 --> 00:54:39,441
Taiwan donated
millions of dollars
843
00:54:39,524 --> 00:54:41,943
to Puntarenas -
building major highways,
844
00:54:42,026 --> 00:54:45,321
bridges and buildings -
and they didn't want any interference.
845
00:54:48,992 --> 00:54:51,536
One hundred million sharks
are killed each year
846
00:54:51,619 --> 00:54:53,997
to support a billion-dollar
shark-fin industry
847
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:56,082
that Costa Rica was profiting from.
848
00:54:59,961 --> 00:55:02,088
I knew we were in serious trouble.
849
00:55:03,465 --> 00:55:06,051
We'd be lucky
to get out of Costa Rica.
850
00:55:09,888 --> 00:55:13,141
William told me
not to go back into town;
851
00:55:13,224 --> 00:55:16,436
the shark-fin Mafia
would be looking for me.
852
00:55:19,814 --> 00:55:23,151
Oh Sinnerman
where you gonna run to
853
00:55:23,234 --> 00:55:26,446
Sinnerman
where you gonna run to
854
00:55:27,489 --> 00:55:29,365
where you gonna run to
855
00:55:30,742 --> 00:55:32,077
All along dem day
856
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:34,204
well I run to the rock
857
00:55:34,287 --> 00:55:37,082
Please hide me
I run to the rock...
858
00:55:37,165 --> 00:55:38,875
When we got back on the boat,
859
00:55:38,958 --> 00:55:41,212
we heard from our lawyer
that the Coast Guard
860
00:55:41,295 --> 00:55:44,673
was on their way to arrest us
and we would be detained indefinitely.
861
00:55:53,599 --> 00:55:56,852
We had to get out of there,
so we pulled anchor
862
00:55:56,936 --> 00:55:59,522
and made a break
for international waters.
863
00:55:59,605 --> 00:56:01,857
I said rock
864
00:56:01,941 --> 00:56:04,360
what's a matter with you rock
865
00:56:04,443 --> 00:56:06,946
- I think it's heading this way.
- How fast? 10?
866
00:56:08,948 --> 00:56:10,533
Within minutes,
867
00:56:10,616 --> 00:56:13,035
the Coast Guard was chasing us
with machine guns,
868
00:56:13,119 --> 00:56:16,038
telling us that they will shoot
if we don't stop.
869
00:56:16,122 --> 00:56:19,291
It was bleedin'
I run to the sea
870
00:56:19,375 --> 00:56:24,338
It was bleedin' I run to the sea
It was bleedin'
871
00:56:24,422 --> 00:56:27,550
I don't like guys waving machine guns,
demanding to come on board.
872
00:56:27,633 --> 00:56:31,262
No, just the barbed wire right now.
It'll make it difficult for them...
873
00:56:31,345 --> 00:56:33,180
But we knew we couldn't stop.
874
00:56:33,264 --> 00:56:35,766
So we strung barbed wire
around the sides of the ship,
875
00:56:35,850 --> 00:56:40,062
so the Coast Guard couldn't
jump on board, and kept running.
876
00:56:40,146 --> 00:56:42,189
We're not stopping.
877
00:56:43,441 --> 00:56:45,443
Please hide me Lord
878
00:56:45,526 --> 00:56:49,989
Don't you see me prayin'
879
00:56:50,072 --> 00:56:52,908
Don't you see me
down here prayin'
880
00:56:52,992 --> 00:56:56,412
- Tell everybody to be very careful
if those guys got guns.
881
00:56:56,495 --> 00:56:59,373
If they shoot,
they're gonna be really stupid.
882
00:57:00,791 --> 00:57:02,376
Well, tell 'em to shoot.
883
00:57:02,460 --> 00:57:05,171
Were not stopping.
He said go to the devil
884
00:57:05,254 --> 00:57:07,715
All along dem day
885
00:57:07,798 --> 00:57:09,508
So I ran to the devil
886
00:57:09,592 --> 00:57:13,263
He was waitin'
I ran to the devil
887
00:57:13,346 --> 00:57:16,266
He was waitin'
Ran to the devil
888
00:57:16,349 --> 00:57:19,644
He was waitin'
We did everything right,
889
00:57:19,728 --> 00:57:21,897
we did everything
we were told to do.
890
00:57:21,980 --> 00:57:23,899
Uh, what do they want to do?
891
00:57:23,982 --> 00:57:26,026
Start another international incident
over this?
892
00:57:27,652 --> 00:57:30,155
Tell 'em we have to call our lawyer.
893
00:57:30,238 --> 00:57:34,367
See if we can call Milton on the radio
and tell him they're chasing us.
894
00:57:34,451 --> 00:57:36,995
Sinnerman you oughta be prayin'
895
00:57:39,247 --> 00:57:42,793
Oughta be prayin' Sinnerman
896
00:57:42,876 --> 00:57:44,961
Oughta be prayin'
897
00:57:45,045 --> 00:57:46,421
All on that day
898
00:57:46,505 --> 00:57:48,465
I cried power
899
00:57:48,548 --> 00:57:50,050
Power
900
00:57:50,133 --> 00:57:53,678
- Power
- Power
901
00:57:53,762 --> 00:57:56,348
Finally, we made it out
of Costa Rican waters
902
00:57:56,431 --> 00:57:58,558
and the Coast Guard stopped.
903
00:58:05,899 --> 00:58:07,567
We continued southwest
904
00:58:07,651 --> 00:58:09,152
to the Galapagos,
905
00:58:09,236 --> 00:58:11,822
leaving Cocos to the poachers.
906
00:58:11,905 --> 00:58:14,533
The fins were worth
too much money
907
00:58:14,616 --> 00:58:17,452
and there was a whole industry
behind it.
908
00:58:17,536 --> 00:58:20,747
We knew we could never go back
to Costa Rica.
909
00:58:28,630 --> 00:58:30,090
Four days from Costa Rica
910
00:58:30,173 --> 00:58:32,592
and 800 miles later,
911
00:58:32,676 --> 00:58:35,762
we arrived
in the Galapagos Islands.
912
00:58:35,846 --> 00:58:38,390
Sea Shepherd was invited
by the national park
913
00:58:38,473 --> 00:58:41,268
to protect the marine reserve
from illegal fishing
914
00:58:41,351 --> 00:58:44,188
and we were making our way
through the archipelago
915
00:58:44,272 --> 00:58:47,024
to the main town of Santa Cruz,
916
00:58:47,108 --> 00:58:49,444
where we would meet with the navy
917
00:58:49,527 --> 00:58:51,237
who control the park.
918
00:58:54,115 --> 00:58:57,201
Although the Galapagos
is a marine reserve,
919
00:58:57,285 --> 00:58:58,995
some fishing has always
been allowed
920
00:58:59,078 --> 00:59:01,038
to provide the island residents
with food.
921
00:59:03,207 --> 00:59:05,126
The fishermen soon realized
922
00:59:05,209 --> 00:59:07,962
that their underwater treasure
was worth a fortune
923
00:59:08,045 --> 00:59:10,757
and started
shipping their catch overseas.
924
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,509
The government noticed
and started imposing quotas
925
00:59:13,593 --> 00:59:15,970
to protect the resource,
926
00:59:16,054 --> 00:59:18,431
but the fishermen rioted,
927
00:59:18,514 --> 00:59:20,224
destroying national-park offices,
928
00:59:20,308 --> 00:59:22,477
holding national-park officials
hostage,
929
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:26,439
and threatening to kill
the last giant tortoises.
930
00:59:26,522 --> 00:59:29,067
The government gave in
931
00:59:29,150 --> 00:59:31,110
and raised the quotas.
932
00:59:59,013 --> 01:00:02,266
Ecuador is on the side
of conserving the Galapagos,
933
01:00:02,350 --> 01:00:05,728
but laws written down
and laws applied
934
01:00:05,812 --> 01:00:08,940
are something very different.
935
01:00:09,023 --> 01:00:12,360
And one of the problems
with the extraction of resources
936
01:00:12,443 --> 01:00:16,156
is that we really often don't understand
how ecosystems work.
937
01:00:17,533 --> 01:00:18,992
At this present moment,
938
01:00:19,076 --> 01:00:22,746
sharks are protected
within the marine reserve.
939
01:00:22,830 --> 01:00:25,666
It is not legal to take sharks.
940
01:00:27,709 --> 01:00:32,631
One of the very strong pressures
at this time in Galapagos
941
01:00:32,714 --> 01:00:34,967
is to open long-lining.
942
01:00:36,385 --> 01:00:39,805
Then you're really talking
about a shark fishery.
943
01:00:42,349 --> 01:00:44,476
We know relatively little
944
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:48,397
about the general ecology
of the ocean
945
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:50,691
and to risk removing
946
01:00:50,774 --> 01:00:53,736
a large number of predators
from the area
947
01:00:53,819 --> 01:00:55,738
may have consequences
948
01:00:55,821 --> 01:00:58,574
which we have
absolutely no concept of.
949
01:01:09,126 --> 01:01:11,795
Shark finning is a very profitable
and cheap way
950
01:01:11,879 --> 01:01:14,673
to make a lot of money,
951
01:01:14,757 --> 01:01:19,094
and it has the similar sort of ring,
financially,
952
01:01:19,178 --> 01:01:20,971
to sea cucumbers.
953
01:01:24,016 --> 01:01:26,643
And even
with the humble sea cucumber,
954
01:01:26,727 --> 01:01:28,645
we're already changing situations.
955
01:01:33,525 --> 01:01:36,612
I doubt very much
there'll be a sea-cucumber industry,
956
01:01:36,695 --> 01:01:39,490
simply because
the resource is gone.
957
01:01:43,952 --> 01:01:47,832
A few men from some
of the cucumber fishing boats,
958
01:01:47,916 --> 01:01:50,210
they're actually
fishing here illegally,
959
01:01:50,293 --> 01:01:53,546
just came up to our boat
to ask if we had any advice,
960
01:01:53,630 --> 01:01:56,049
because they had two of their fishermen
that were bent.
961
01:01:56,132 --> 01:01:58,176
One man had been bent
for four days,
962
01:01:58,259 --> 01:01:59,928
he'd had severe pain
in his shoulders
963
01:02:00,011 --> 01:02:03,014
and it hasn't gone away;
another guy got bent today.
964
01:02:03,098 --> 01:02:05,850
He went back down,
did some in-water recompression,
965
01:02:05,934 --> 01:02:07,769
came back up and feels fine.
966
01:02:07,852 --> 01:02:10,271
If he's been bent four days
and has severe problems
967
01:02:10,355 --> 01:02:12,565
in his shoulder,
he needs to get into a chamber.
968
01:02:12,649 --> 01:02:16,152
The bends is a disease
caused by diving too deep
969
01:02:16,236 --> 01:02:18,154
and surfacing quickly.
970
01:02:18,238 --> 01:02:20,573
It's incredibly painful
and you can die
971
01:02:20,657 --> 01:02:23,284
if you don't get
to a recompression chamber.
972
01:02:23,368 --> 01:02:27,414
If someone's paying them
to go diving for cucumbers,
973
01:02:27,497 --> 01:02:30,333
someone should be able
to pay to take them back
974
01:02:30,417 --> 01:02:32,669
to Santa Cruz
to get to a chamber.
975
01:02:32,752 --> 01:02:34,587
Because he's really sick.
976
01:02:34,671 --> 01:02:37,132
He could die
if he doesn't get to a chamber.
977
01:02:40,218 --> 01:02:43,930
But the problem is,
they have 12 days left of fishing,
978
01:02:44,013 --> 01:02:47,809
so they don't want to go back
to Santa Cruz to go to the chamber.
979
01:02:47,892 --> 01:02:50,353
Lose four days of fishing,
980
01:02:50,437 --> 01:02:52,439
or lose your man?
981
01:02:55,150 --> 01:02:58,361
The cucumbers were worth more
than the lives of the fisherman.
982
01:03:00,905 --> 01:03:02,741
With the cucumbers nearly gone,
983
01:03:02,824 --> 01:03:06,077
the fishermen are pushing
to legalize long-lining,
984
01:03:06,161 --> 01:03:08,705
which catches mostly sharks.
985
01:03:08,788 --> 01:03:11,875
Sharks have always been protected
in the Galapagos.
986
01:03:11,958 --> 01:03:14,544
Now that Costa Rica
was finning sharks,
987
01:03:14,627 --> 01:03:17,965
the Galapagos is one
of the last strongholds for sharks.
988
01:03:20,259 --> 01:03:21,927
Legalizing long-lining here
989
01:03:22,011 --> 01:03:25,097
would wipe out
more than just sharks.
990
01:03:25,181 --> 01:03:28,059
Every animal and ecosystem
in the Galapagos
991
01:03:28,142 --> 01:03:30,603
depends on the ocean
for survival.
992
01:03:40,196 --> 01:03:42,114
Sharks have a really tough time
993
01:03:42,198 --> 01:03:44,575
catching seals and sea lions.
994
01:03:44,658 --> 01:03:47,495
They shaped these animals,
putting pressure on them
995
01:03:47,578 --> 01:03:50,081
so they evolved ways
of avoiding sharks.
996
01:03:53,501 --> 01:03:56,003
The seal evolved
hyper-mobile backbones,
997
01:03:56,087 --> 01:03:59,381
making them extremely agile
in the water
998
01:03:59,465 --> 01:04:01,258
and a difficult target for sharks.
999
01:04:02,968 --> 01:04:06,097
The sharks have to ambush the seals
or find an injured one.
1000
01:04:07,473 --> 01:04:09,725
To ambush a seal,
they swim below,
1001
01:04:09,809 --> 01:04:11,519
out of visible range,
1002
01:04:11,602 --> 01:04:15,064
looking for the silhouette
of a seal -
1003
01:04:15,147 --> 01:04:19,443
a very similar silhouette
to a human on the surface.
1004
01:04:19,902 --> 01:04:22,363
A healthy seal
moves through the water
1005
01:04:22,446 --> 01:04:24,240
without any noise or bubbles.
1006
01:04:24,323 --> 01:04:26,367
But an injured one
will flail about,
1007
01:04:26,450 --> 01:04:28,244
creating a disturbance
in the water,
1008
01:04:28,327 --> 01:04:32,248
just like humans when we swim.
1009
01:04:32,331 --> 01:04:35,960
It's amazing how few people
are attacked each year,
1010
01:04:36,043 --> 01:04:38,921
considering how much
we look like shark food.
1011
01:04:39,004 --> 01:04:41,382
We treat animals differently,
but they're all doing the same thing.
1012
01:04:41,465 --> 01:04:44,552
So the cute little baby harp seal
grows up and goes out and eats fish,
1013
01:04:44,635 --> 01:04:46,972
just as viciously as a shark.
1014
01:04:47,055 --> 01:04:50,016
But we think of the seal
as sort of cute and cuddly,
1015
01:04:50,100 --> 01:04:52,352
and we think of the shark
as something vicious,
1016
01:04:52,436 --> 01:04:53,895
but that's just human mythology.
1017
01:05:26,303 --> 01:05:28,555
Then my mission stopped cold,
1018
01:05:28,638 --> 01:05:32,100
I had a pain in my leg
and was taken to the hospital.
1019
01:05:33,643 --> 01:05:36,146
It was diagnosed
as flesh-eating disease.
1020
01:05:36,229 --> 01:05:39,066
Doctors said
I was lucky to be alive,
1021
01:05:39,149 --> 01:05:41,359
that I would only lose my leg.
1022
01:05:43,820 --> 01:05:47,157
I had a pain in my lymph gland
to the right of -
1023
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:48,950
to the left of my groin -
1024
01:05:49,034 --> 01:05:52,329
and I came to the hospital,
asked them what's wrong;
1025
01:05:52,412 --> 01:05:57,084
they said I got Staphylococcal
bacteria in my leg.
1026
01:05:57,167 --> 01:06:00,420
Staphylococcus,
or flesh-eating disease,
1027
01:06:00,504 --> 01:06:02,589
infects the body through any wound,
1028
01:06:02,672 --> 01:06:06,927
even a tiny cut,
like the ones I had on my feet.
1029
01:06:07,010 --> 01:06:10,263
It destroys tissue,
consuming the body,
1030
01:06:10,347 --> 01:06:13,600
and if untreated, can kill you.
1031
01:06:17,438 --> 01:06:20,608
I was hospitalized,
fighting to save my leg.
1032
01:06:22,652 --> 01:06:25,405
Watching the IV
of antibiotics and saline solution
1033
01:06:25,488 --> 01:06:27,365
drip into my arm.
1034
01:06:27,448 --> 01:06:30,827
Now that I couldn't be
in the ocean,
1035
01:06:30,910 --> 01:06:33,579
they were dripping the ocean
into me.
1036
01:06:36,332 --> 01:06:38,751
I'll be fine, okay?
1037
01:06:38,835 --> 01:06:40,920
I promise.
1038
01:06:41,003 --> 01:06:44,465
I lay there, watching the red line
creep up my leg.
1039
01:06:45,883 --> 01:06:49,887
It was halfway through my thigh
and if it made it to my hip,
1040
01:06:49,971 --> 01:06:53,057
I would lose more than my leg.
1041
01:06:55,101 --> 01:06:58,062
I'm probably way more likely
to die working in Toronto than here.
1042
01:07:04,318 --> 01:07:07,905
Dude... Brian, don't get stressed
and don't get upset, okay?
1043
01:07:09,449 --> 01:07:13,369
It's fine, it's just...
it's just another bump, alright?
1044
01:07:14,871 --> 01:07:17,290
Then I heard from Paul.
1045
01:07:17,373 --> 01:07:20,001
He said there was nothing
they could do,
1046
01:07:20,084 --> 01:07:23,546
Sea Shepherd was being
kicked out of the Galapagos...
1047
01:07:26,132 --> 01:07:29,594
...because the Galapagos
had legalized long-lining.
1048
01:07:32,221 --> 01:07:35,141
The fishermen wanted more money
and had turned to shark fins.
1049
01:07:35,224 --> 01:07:37,727
The government gave in,
1050
01:07:37,810 --> 01:07:40,980
and long-lining was legalized.
1051
01:07:41,939 --> 01:07:44,484
Now we've lost Cocos
and the Galapagos
1052
01:07:44,567 --> 01:07:46,569
to the fin industry.
1053
01:07:48,113 --> 01:07:51,200
I think the world needs to know
1054
01:07:51,283 --> 01:07:53,035
that sharks are probably
1055
01:07:53,118 --> 01:07:55,579
the most threatened
group of species
1056
01:07:55,662 --> 01:07:59,041
that we have
in the ocean right now.
1057
01:07:59,124 --> 01:08:02,169
And that a lot of shark species
are declining very rapidly;
1058
01:08:02,252 --> 01:08:05,089
that this is not
a natural phenomenon.
1059
01:08:05,172 --> 01:08:08,884
It's because of fishing
and other human impacts
1060
01:08:08,967 --> 01:08:14,765
and that there's a lot we can do
about this to change it.
1061
01:08:16,850 --> 01:08:20,020
Sharks are going to be difficult
to conserve,
1062
01:08:20,104 --> 01:08:24,066
because on one hand,
you have people afraid of them
1063
01:08:24,149 --> 01:08:27,736
and not really wanting
to go anywhere near them.
1064
01:08:27,820 --> 01:08:30,406
People can sort of fish them
with impunity.
1065
01:08:30,489 --> 01:08:32,741
There's nobody
looking after the sharks.
1066
01:08:32,825 --> 01:08:34,576
There's no campaign,
1067
01:08:34,660 --> 01:08:36,412
like a Greenpeace campaign,
1068
01:08:36,495 --> 01:08:38,288
to save the sharks.
1069
01:10:40,787 --> 01:10:43,456
Paul left to start a campaign
1070
01:10:43,540 --> 01:10:46,584
against illegal whaling
in Antarctica.
1071
01:10:46,918 --> 01:10:49,129
And I was alone.
1072
01:10:51,048 --> 01:10:54,218
Two of the world's
last sanctuaries for sharks
1073
01:10:54,301 --> 01:10:56,387
were going to be wiped out.
1074
01:10:56,470 --> 01:10:59,223
During my last six days
in the hospital,
1075
01:10:59,306 --> 01:11:02,435
more than 1.5 million sharks
had been killed.
1076
01:11:03,811 --> 01:11:06,397
Everyone told me to go home,
1077
01:11:06,480 --> 01:11:07,690
forget about sharks,
1078
01:11:07,773 --> 01:11:10,317
and try and save my leg.
1079
01:11:10,401 --> 01:11:14,655
I didn't know if what I was doing
made sense anymore,
1080
01:11:14,780 --> 01:11:16,866
but all I could think about
1081
01:11:16,949 --> 01:11:19,076
was getting back underwater
with sharks.
1082
01:11:24,540 --> 01:11:27,418
Sharks' presence in the ocean
has provided a framework
1083
01:11:27,501 --> 01:11:29,754
for the populations below them,
1084
01:11:29,837 --> 01:11:31,464
including phytoplankton,
1085
01:11:31,547 --> 01:11:34,467
tiny aquatic plants
that consume more carbon dioxide
1086
01:11:34,592 --> 01:11:36,343
than anything else on Earth.
1087
01:11:36,427 --> 01:11:39,138
Carbon dioxide
is the global-warming gas,
1088
01:11:39,221 --> 01:11:41,557
and plankton converts it to oxygen,
1089
01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:45,227
providing 70% of the oxygen
we breathe on land.
1090
01:11:45,311 --> 01:11:47,188
Without sharks to prey on them,
1091
01:11:47,271 --> 01:11:50,107
plankton feeders below sharks
could grow out of control,
1092
01:11:50,191 --> 01:11:53,110
consuming the plankton
that we depend on for survival.
1093
01:11:54,653 --> 01:11:57,198
The ocean
is the most important ecosystem,
1094
01:11:57,281 --> 01:12:01,368
regulating climate
and feeding much of the planet.
1095
01:12:01,452 --> 01:12:04,789
Life on land
depends on life in the ocean.
1096
01:12:05,956 --> 01:12:10,002
I finally realized
that it's not just about saving sharks,
1097
01:12:10,086 --> 01:12:12,880
it's about saving ourselves.
1098
01:12:15,841 --> 01:12:18,928
There was nothing I could do
to save sharks in the Galapagos,
1099
01:12:19,011 --> 01:12:22,140
but shark finning
was still illegal in Costa Rica.
1100
01:12:22,224 --> 01:12:24,684
If I could get back
into Costa Rica,
1101
01:12:24,768 --> 01:12:26,895
maybe I could finally
get to Cocos
1102
01:12:26,978 --> 01:12:29,147
and do something
to stop the finning.
1103
01:12:30,649 --> 01:12:33,443
I lay there,
hoping the red line would stop,
1104
01:12:33,527 --> 01:12:35,946
and after a week it did.
1105
01:12:36,822 --> 01:12:40,367
The infection subsided
and I was finally free.
1106
01:12:42,077 --> 01:12:43,829
I think the problem is,
1107
01:12:43,912 --> 01:12:47,040
that we don't really understand
what we are.
1108
01:12:47,124 --> 01:12:50,377
In essence,
we're, uh, you know,
1109
01:12:50,460 --> 01:12:52,838
just a conceited naked ape,
1110
01:12:52,921 --> 01:12:56,049
but in our minds
we're some sort of divine legend
1111
01:12:56,133 --> 01:12:59,719
and we see ourselves
as some sort of god,
1112
01:12:59,803 --> 01:13:04,182
that we can walk around the Earth
deciding who will live and who will die,
1113
01:13:04,266 --> 01:13:07,144
and what will be destroyed
and what will be saved.
1114
01:13:07,227 --> 01:13:11,356
But the fact is, we're just a bunch
of primates out of control.
1115
01:13:30,959 --> 01:13:33,879
We're now in the midst
of a Third World War,
1116
01:13:33,962 --> 01:13:35,756
but this time
the enemy is ourselves
1117
01:13:35,839 --> 01:13:39,009
and the objective is to save
the planet from ourselves.
1118
01:13:39,092 --> 01:13:41,928
There is no hope
for the masses of humanity
1119
01:13:42,012 --> 01:13:43,430
to do anything.
1120
01:13:43,513 --> 01:13:45,682
They never have, they never will.
1121
01:13:45,766 --> 01:13:49,686
All social change comes
from the passionate intervention
1122
01:13:49,770 --> 01:13:52,774
of individuals
or small groups of individuals.
1123
01:13:54,067 --> 01:13:57,236
Slavery wasn't ended
by any government or any institution.
1124
01:13:57,320 --> 01:14:00,114
Women got the right to vote
1125
01:14:00,198 --> 01:14:02,366
not because of any government.
1126
01:14:02,450 --> 01:14:06,871
The civil-rights movement,
the same thing -
1127
01:14:06,954 --> 01:14:10,833
India with Mahatma Gandhi,
South Africa with Nelson Mandela.
1128
01:14:10,958 --> 01:14:13,127
Again, it's always individuals.
1129
01:14:13,211 --> 01:14:14,921
You need those individuals
1130
01:14:15,004 --> 01:14:17,090
with the passion and the energy
to get involved.
1131
01:14:17,215 --> 01:14:18,925
In fact, I don't know
1132
01:14:19,008 --> 01:14:20,760
of any governments or institutions
1133
01:14:20,843 --> 01:14:23,137
that are doing anything
to solve any of these problems.
1134
01:14:24,389 --> 01:14:27,141
All over the world, though,
I am seeing individuals
1135
01:14:27,225 --> 01:14:29,644
and non-government organizations
that are passionately involved
1136
01:14:29,769 --> 01:14:33,356
in protecting ecosystems
and species,
1137
01:14:33,439 --> 01:14:35,817
and that's where I see
some optimism,
1138
01:14:35,900 --> 01:14:37,944
that's where results
are happening.
1139
01:14:59,257 --> 01:15:00,633
Okay...
1140
01:15:00,716 --> 01:15:02,135
here we go.
1141
01:15:02,218 --> 01:15:05,555
As soon as I was let out
of the hospital,
1142
01:15:05,638 --> 01:15:08,683
I started making my way
back to Costa Rica.
1143
01:15:08,766 --> 01:15:12,770
Costa Rica was the last place
on Earth I should go.
1144
01:15:12,854 --> 01:15:14,731
I would be arrested immediately
1145
01:15:14,814 --> 01:15:17,442
if they found out I was there.
1146
01:15:17,525 --> 01:15:20,069
So I had to sneak in.
1147
01:15:20,153 --> 01:15:22,614
I took a boat
from the Galapagos Islands
1148
01:15:22,698 --> 01:15:24,241
to mainland Ecuador.
1149
01:15:24,324 --> 01:15:26,285
My friends in Costa Rica
1150
01:15:26,368 --> 01:15:29,496
told me not to fly back
into the country,
1151
01:15:29,580 --> 01:15:32,416
that I'd be caught if I did.
1152
01:15:36,336 --> 01:15:38,297
I had to avoid any major ports,
1153
01:15:38,380 --> 01:15:40,758
the police and the Coast Guard.
1154
01:15:40,841 --> 01:15:43,010
Even if I made it to the coast,
1155
01:15:43,093 --> 01:15:45,763
I'd also have to avoid
the shark-fin Mafia.
1156
01:15:53,062 --> 01:15:54,730
To avoid capture,
1157
01:15:54,813 --> 01:15:56,690
I travelled overland for days,
1158
01:15:56,774 --> 01:15:59,068
using public transportation
and tour buses
1159
01:15:59,151 --> 01:16:01,528
to get back into the country.
1160
01:16:01,612 --> 01:16:04,031
Still going, this bus?
1161
01:16:04,114 --> 01:16:07,367
I only narrowly escaped arrest
a few weeks earlier,
1162
01:16:07,451 --> 01:16:10,037
but I had to find a way in
1163
01:16:10,120 --> 01:16:12,748
and find a way
to help the sharks.
1164
01:16:19,088 --> 01:16:21,924
Avoiding arrest and staying
on public buses,
1165
01:16:22,007 --> 01:16:24,384
I made it to the coast
1166
01:16:24,468 --> 01:16:27,096
and entered Puntarenas.
1167
01:16:33,977 --> 01:16:37,856
Instead of the shark-fin Mafia
I was expecting to greet me,
1168
01:16:37,981 --> 01:16:40,651
there were protests
in the streets.
1169
01:16:42,361 --> 01:16:45,823
Costa Ricans were rallying
against shark finning.
1170
01:16:45,906 --> 01:16:48,951
The publicity surrounding our case
brought the shark-finning industry
1171
01:16:49,034 --> 01:16:50,536
into the spotlight.
1172
01:16:50,619 --> 01:16:53,248
We hadn't totally failed
in saving sharks.
1173
01:16:54,916 --> 01:16:57,836
We helped awaken a country
and the people.
1174
01:16:59,337 --> 01:17:00,797
Costa Ricans were outraged;
1175
01:17:00,922 --> 01:17:04,467
they held protests
against the private docks
1176
01:17:04,551 --> 01:17:06,636
and spoke out
against the corruption.
1177
01:17:08,346 --> 01:17:10,932
The world had started
rallying for sharks.
1178
01:17:24,904 --> 01:17:27,782
The police were busy
with the protest
1179
01:17:27,866 --> 01:17:30,493
and the Mafia was in hiding.
1180
01:17:32,328 --> 01:17:35,623
Now I knew I could make it to Cocos
without getting caught.
1181
01:17:42,422 --> 01:17:45,633
I found my friends
and we headed back out to sea.
1182
01:18:02,901 --> 01:18:05,111
Returning underwater,
1183
01:18:05,195 --> 01:18:08,323
finally I could swim
with sharks again,
1184
01:18:08,406 --> 01:18:12,077
in one of the last places on Earth
where sharks thrive.
1185
01:18:14,621 --> 01:18:17,373
Free diving...
1186
01:18:17,457 --> 01:18:19,876
I hold my breath and stay calm
1187
01:18:19,959 --> 01:18:22,420
so they're not afraid of me.
1188
01:18:27,802 --> 01:18:30,137
Ever since I was a kid,
1189
01:18:30,221 --> 01:18:31,764
I've loved sharks.
1190
01:18:36,977 --> 01:18:39,230
They taught me about life,
1191
01:18:39,313 --> 01:18:42,650
and that fear
was something I made up,
1192
01:18:42,733 --> 01:18:44,777
and it wasn't real.
1193
01:18:48,697 --> 01:18:52,201
Sharks have been here
since the beginning,
1194
01:18:52,284 --> 01:18:55,246
when there was only primitive life
in the oceans
1195
01:18:55,329 --> 01:18:58,082
and the land was mostly desert.
1196
01:18:59,834 --> 01:19:02,211
They were the top predator,
1197
01:19:02,294 --> 01:19:05,589
influencing any animal to evolve
since their inception.
1198
01:19:08,801 --> 01:19:11,011
Sharks have been gods
1199
01:19:11,095 --> 01:19:13,431
for 400 million years,
1200
01:19:13,514 --> 01:19:15,182
shaping this world
1201
01:19:15,266 --> 01:19:18,936
for the entire history
of life on land.
1202
01:19:24,608 --> 01:19:26,277
Seeing them again,
1203
01:19:26,360 --> 01:19:29,113
I knew that they're almost gone.
1204
01:19:31,490 --> 01:19:32,908
The killing of sharks
1205
01:19:32,992 --> 01:19:36,996
is the biggest ecological time bomb
we're going to face pretty soon.
1206
01:19:37,079 --> 01:19:39,832
We have to understand
that sharks are the most abundant
1207
01:19:39,915 --> 01:19:42,376
top predator on this planet,
at over 100 pounds,
1208
01:19:42,460 --> 01:19:45,504
so that tells you something.
Nature created them for a reason.
1209
01:19:45,588 --> 01:19:47,798
Now human beings just...
they don't care
1210
01:19:47,882 --> 01:19:50,593
they kill 100 million, 200 million.
"So what?" You know?
1211
01:19:50,676 --> 01:19:53,721
"Sharks are a nuisance,
a dead shark is a good shark,
1212
01:19:53,804 --> 01:19:56,892
let's kill 'em all."
But if we kill 'em all,
1213
01:19:56,975 --> 01:19:59,770
we destroy all food chains
of an entire marine ecosystem
1214
01:19:59,853 --> 01:20:02,898
and, well, the majority of our oxygen
comes from the ocean,
1215
01:20:02,981 --> 01:20:04,649
so we should be more careful.
1216
01:20:04,733 --> 01:20:07,986
There is no species on this planet
that has ever survived
1217
01:20:08,070 --> 01:20:10,113
by ignoring
the basic laws of ecology,
1218
01:20:10,197 --> 01:20:14,076
and we're now breaking those basic laws
every day in every way,
1219
01:20:14,159 --> 01:20:18,872
and that's going to mean our own demise
in a very short period of time,
1220
01:20:18,955 --> 01:20:21,917
unless we learn to live harmoniously
with the natural world.
1221
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:25,212
Future generations
are gonna look back on us
1222
01:20:25,337 --> 01:20:28,924
and they're gonna think of us
as barbarians,
1223
01:20:29,007 --> 01:20:32,177
the same way
we think of slave traders.
1224
01:20:32,260 --> 01:20:36,306
That they're gonna look at us
as barbarians for what we're doing,
1225
01:20:36,390 --> 01:20:39,309
the fact that we're burning
all the fossil fuels,
1226
01:20:39,393 --> 01:20:42,521
in a few generations,
that we've wiped out the oceans,
1227
01:20:42,604 --> 01:20:44,606
that we've driven species
to extinction.
1228
01:20:44,689 --> 01:20:48,443
And worse - this is the worst part -
we know what we're doing.
1229
01:20:48,527 --> 01:20:50,153
The scientists know,
the environmentalists know,
1230
01:20:50,237 --> 01:20:52,572
the companies know
and the general public knows,
1231
01:20:52,656 --> 01:20:55,283
and yet we're allowing ourselves
to do it.
1232
01:20:57,744 --> 01:21:01,248
Sharks have lived
in balance with the oceans
1233
01:21:01,331 --> 01:21:03,125
as the top predator.
1234
01:21:04,501 --> 01:21:08,046
Now we are the top predator,
1235
01:21:08,130 --> 01:21:10,924
deciding which species we'll use
1236
01:21:11,007 --> 01:21:13,385
and which we'll destroy.
1237
01:21:13,468 --> 01:21:16,847
I wonder if we've evolved enough
1238
01:21:16,930 --> 01:21:19,307
to survive as they have.
1239
01:21:23,103 --> 01:21:26,441
We depend on the oceans
for oxygen;
1240
01:21:26,524 --> 01:21:29,485
the oceans that sharks control.
1241
01:21:33,614 --> 01:21:35,450
If we lose sharks,
1242
01:21:35,533 --> 01:21:38,119
we'll disrupt the oxygen
we need to breathe.
1243
01:21:42,540 --> 01:21:45,877
We've only been here
for a few million years
1244
01:21:45,960 --> 01:21:48,045
and in the last 100 years,
1245
01:21:48,129 --> 01:21:50,715
we've greatly impacted
life in the ocean.
1246
01:21:52,967 --> 01:21:56,137
But we also have the power
to change it for the better.
1247
01:22:02,101 --> 01:22:05,480
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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