the few last wild places in our oceans
are disappearing
few people will ever see these pristine
places beautiful and fragile safe from
the impact of men
we looked all over the earth for islands
with the potential to be pristine and
unprotected
what we found was San Felix and San
ambrosial
the deaths venture otters islands 570
miles off the coast of Chile National
Geographic and Oceania Chile set out on
an expedition in February of 2013 this
was our one chance
we had only a few weeks to prove that
these islands are
it became clear right away that we were
somewhere special somewhere
pristine
at the end of our dive the surprise the
Juan Fernandez fur seal this species was
thought extinct 100 years ago their
presence in Sant Ambrogio was an
encouraging sign but we only saw five on
the entire expedition
it is these moments where we feel most
connected to these places when our
curiosity is meant by the curiosity of
the ocean life after what we saw on the
dive we decided to launch the summary
at 100 meters there was life everywhere
the most moray eels we’ve ever seen out
of their holes
hundreds of dogfish
giant lobsters almost 15 pounds each
alone or in groups I’m not kidding
it’s about these size without the
antennae
that’s one of the largest lobsters I’ve
seen in my life in these depths we
encountered an amazing diversity of the
species of deep fish we observed at
least 10 appear to be new to science our
goal was to explore collect data and
report to the chileans on how pristine
the des venture Odyssey islands are
this place is as pristine as it gets
to protect the des venture Otis gives us
hope for these places that they can
survive that they won’t disappear
that they have a future
you
you
are disappearing
few people will ever see these pristine
places beautiful and fragile safe from
the impact of men
we looked all over the earth for islands
with the potential to be pristine and
unprotected
what we found was San Felix and San
ambrosial
the deaths venture otters islands 570
miles off the coast of Chile National
Geographic and Oceania Chile set out on
an expedition in February of 2013 this
was our one chance
we had only a few weeks to prove that
these islands are
it became clear right away that we were
somewhere special somewhere
pristine
at the end of our dive the surprise the
Juan Fernandez fur seal this species was
thought extinct 100 years ago their
presence in Sant Ambrogio was an
encouraging sign but we only saw five on
the entire expedition
it is these moments where we feel most
connected to these places when our
curiosity is meant by the curiosity of
the ocean life after what we saw on the
dive we decided to launch the summary
at 100 meters there was life everywhere
the most moray eels we’ve ever seen out
of their holes
hundreds of dogfish
giant lobsters almost 15 pounds each
alone or in groups I’m not kidding
it’s about these size without the
antennae
that’s one of the largest lobsters I’ve
seen in my life in these depths we
encountered an amazing diversity of the
species of deep fish we observed at
least 10 appear to be new to science our
goal was to explore collect data and
report to the chileans on how pristine
the des venture Odyssey islands are
this place is as pristine as it gets
to protect the des venture Otis gives us
hope for these places that they can
survive that they won’t disappear
that they have a future
you
you
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