[Music]
Pipkin Islands we knew very little about
it anywhere it’s almost impossible to
get there so we decided to go
immediately it was totally if nothing a
place that looks like the ocean 2,000
years ago imagine how many hundreds or
thousands of fish are there waiting to
be discovered and then we got a call
that we didn’t want to hear about we
fear that there have been some illegal
fishing in these waters this place is so
unique this place has to be protected
there is no other way how many places
like this we have on the planet
[Applause]
how many people have heard of watched
the mutiny on the bounty of course
everybody and the bounty was a British
ship that in 1787 was send by the
British government to Tahiti under the
command of Captain Bligh a branch of
sailors under the command of Christian
Fletcher decided to organize a mutiny
and they took command of the ship but
Christian and the others were looking
around for other islands until they
found Pitcairn Island and when they
arrived to Pitkin they sank the boat in
what’s known as bounty Bay today they
burned the boat and it sank two hundred
years later Pitkin is still a very
remote and isolated place and we know
very little about Pitkin especially
underwater it is remote it has
uninhabited islands we knew very little
about it anyways almost impossible to
get there so we decided to go
immediately and there are four islands
on the Pitcairn Islands
oh I know peat current Henderson and
Dulce and they belong to the UK they are
now an overseas territory of the United
Kingdom the four islands and the
200-mile exclusive economic zone around
the islands this is more than eight
hundred thousand square kilometres and
nobody nobody had studied the deep sea
around the islands in Dulce is this at
all which is 300 miles east of pecan
island and it’s one of the most isolated
adults on the planet and it’s the
southernmost at all in the world
so southernmost Atoll in the world means
that it is at the southern edge of the
distribution of corals which means that
the conditions for coral growth are not
optimal so this is a place in order like
its marginal for for the existence of
corals
so we were not hoping to find a nice
coral reef and when we champ in the
water we couldn’t believe it healthy
thriving corals covering must of the
button especially this one the most
spectacular this leaf coral it was like
a garden of pale blue giant roses you
know going to infinity so you are
sitting at 30 feet and looking
horizontally at your diving buddy how
far your diving buddy can go before you
lose sight of her 75 meters almost 240
feet this is the clearest visibility
ever measured in the Pacific there are
only a few places in Antarctica during
the right season where the water is more
clear my colleague there our underwater
cinematographer was a hundred feet deep
and he could still see 60 70 meters and
all he could see were coral and coral
and coral and coral we have never seen
this anywhere in the Pacific Ocean
hundred percent of the bottom more than
100 percent of the bottom is covered by
live coral because you see all these
corals growing on top of coral right so
more than hundred percent of the bottom
covered by live coral in the Caribbean
on average only five percent of the
bottom is covered by live coral the rest
is covered by seaweed and slime that
have overgrown and kill the corals and
over the corals abundant fish like these
nano a very curious fish forming schools
of thousands of fish and sharks lots of
sharks like these great reef sharks and
the white tip sharks the sharks are so
abundant here that they account for 65
percent of the biomass that means that
if you take all of the fish out of the
reef and weigh them the top predators
would account for 65% of that weight to
use a land analogy imagine in Africa
that would be more than one lion per
every zebra or will
this is what a pristine reef is like and
these sharks were very very curious and
they came and bumped our cameras a few
times and think about this these sharks
can grow up to 25 years these fishes
have never seen a human before
you haven’t been spoiled by bait or
chumming or motors or noise now these
are completely wild animals and you jump
in the water you are surrounded by 1015
sharks and more calm and they are very
curious but very cautious that’s why
they get to live so old that was a
pristine coral reef a doozy
healthy corals covering all the bottom
large fish lots of sharks clear water we
were so happy so so happy the worst
moment was when we had to come out of
the water at the end of each dive that
was really the have to go and and we
thought okay do see is Christine because
it’s so remote it is uninhabited and
it’s so far from the main fishing
grounds it’s so remote that it’s not
profitable it’s not economical to make a
fishing trip there right so our question
then was is that unique to do sea or
other uninhabited islands in the Pitkin
archipelago are also pristine and we
hoped that we have humans these islands
would be pristine so we went to
Henderson next and Henderson is about
ten miles long and three miles wide and
from a satellite photo it looks flat and
green and this is a photo composite
photo of ten different photos from the
sea it looks like it like a table UNESCO
designated Henderson a World Heritage
Site but they forgot about the water
surrounding the island which are another
heritage of humanity
it’s an unbelievable place healthy coral
reefs growing on these Azure waters and
tell me who doesn’t want to have this
photo as a screensaver in the computer
so we jump underwater and we find
another paradise full of top heads or
full of sharks and watching these sharks
swim patrol over the reef looking for
prey was like watching an underwater
ballet
it was totally hypnotic and again we
were so happy this is the thing that we
love the most being in a place that is
completely untouched by humans a place
that looks like the ocean a thousand
years ago a place where we are just
visitors we’re who are allowed to just
catch a glimpse of a world that is
disappearing and the Sharks were very
curious but they never they were never
aggressive even though you might not
think the same one you see the next
little bit
damselfish butterflyfish morals this
large red snappers which were very
inquisitive
and probably the most exciting thing in
Henderson water sharks
the Sharks were very curious and they
came to check us out very closely sharks
are very curious but they are cautious
now they surround you they swim around
you and it takes a long time for them to
get close and it’s always the younger
one who get a little crazy and they are
foolish like every teenager and they
come and bump in the camera and they get
excited but as long as you’re cool and
don’t get excited
the Sharks are going to leave you alone
but these guys are the fish that we fear
the most and these are the red snappers
are famous among our team because over
the years they have come to beat our
fins our camera our strobes – ear logs
and my ponytail yeah really really
really aggressive and curious they don’t
call them snapper for nothing and you
can see the scratches on this guy that
was before before we even get there and
and Henderson is also another sign that
of the health of Henderson is that we is
the only place where we found a Napoleon
rise on every dive then a Pauline Russ
is this huge massive crush the largest
of the family of the Russell’s that can
grow up to six feet and weigh 200 pounds
and they you used to be common on all
the shallow reefs of the Pacific but
they have been depleted everywhere
because some Asians think that the lips
of these fish are a delicacy but
fortunately at Henderson they still have
a refuge and not everything is large and
big and impressive there are some cute
animal here too and like you know there
are dozens of species of a small fish
that live inside the corals hiding from
the predators like this inch long coral
croucher which needs a kind of shave and
you know the corals themselves are so
extraordinary on the East Beach of
Henderson 20 meters depth we found the
largest coral we’ve seen on our
expeditions probably 1,000 years old so
imagine when
the Spanish conquistadores were sailing
over those waters in the sixteen
hundreds that coral was still was
already large and growing and we were so
happy we were so excited and then we got
a call on the radio from Mike I call
that we didn’t want to to hear about and
he found tons of trash on the beach at
Anderson lots of plastic and mostly
fishing gear you know and you go to
these remote islands and every remote
island you go – we found trash on the
beach and we know that trash can travel
long distances in the ocean but the
amount of fishing gear here really made
us afraid that something was going on
that there might have been the mat there
might be some illegal fishing nearby and
we decided to check another Island you
know which is the closest to a human
population to see if there were some
fishing here Henderson do see are still
pristine but are they in danger that was
the question that we wanted to answer
next so we went to a ena which is about
100 miles northwest of Pitkin Island and
it’s a typical at all with the shallow
Lagoon surrounded by a coral ring in
this beautiful island in the middle and
we explored the shallow reefs in the
lagoon and we found these wonderful
habitats with giant clams up to nine
giant clams per square meter with these
impossible colors the electric-blue
selected greens and these animals filter
the water for a living that’s what the
water in these lagoons is so crystal
clear and then offshore we found many
more fish like this barracudas cause of
200 Barracuda here surrounding our
cameraman and lots of other predators
like these groupers like the yellow edge
lyretail with these impossible reds and
greens and some of these fish you see
them and
you think who painted this you know this
is impossible nature you just saw so
incredible but the most interesting fees
that we saw was this one the titan
triggerfish the titan sugar fish very
large fish very shy and here it’s been
cleaned by a little cleaner wrasse
although what it’s clear what he needs
is a marine orthodontist but you know
Pitcairn Islands is a British colony
English teeth that was funny but what
was not funny was that we did not see
sharks at Bowie no at all
that wasn’t funny why we didn’t see
sharks on a remote uninhabited island in
the middle of the Pacific and the only
explanation is fishing if you’re not
fishing these reefs are overflowing with
sharks if there are no sharks if there
are no large fish is because somebody
has taken them out of the water and we
fear that there have been some illegal
and unreported fishing in these waters
so we know has been the first Island
victim of the human predation Henderson
and Lucy are still safe but for how long
now in Pitkin what about pit kern you
have a population of 58 they are fishing
but you know a speed can suffer the same
fate as we know so at the end of the
expression after three weeks going
around on these gorgeous places we
decided to go back to pit kern and here
you can see Adams town the only village
in town where the 58 people live 52 of
them are descendants of the mutineers of
the bounty and we were able to dive in
the shallows study the coral reefs and
we found great coral growth and lots of
fish but we saw no sharks at Pitcairn
Island do see in one dive one day we saw
35 sharks just swimming around Pitkin no
week of diving three times a day for
hours under water we didn’t see
single shark and talking to the locals
they reported that in the past there
have been in the recent past there have
been fishing boats fishing at night
offshore they don’t have the
capabilities to go out and kick them out
they have seen these lights this factory
boat outside Korea and Taiwanese
Japanese some Spanish boats and they
call them on the radio and they they
don’t reply so these islands are in
danger we wanted to do a final test we
have a final question
okay those in henderson are too far away
nobody’s fishing there or in us close to
french polynesia so maybe you have some
politicians going there to fish and they
kill the sharks the Sharks have been
eliminated over time around Pitt current
probably by these illegal fishing fleets
fishing at night but what about all this
amount there are hundreds of ancient
volcanoes in this exclusive economic
zone in this 200 mile zone and some come
close to the surface have they been
fished you know they are so far away
from Pete Kern that who can know if
about this fishing there so we decided
to go to the 40 mile reef which is this
reef it’s an ancient volcano now it’s
called a sea mount that is 75 meters
from the surface and the locals have
been there three four times in their
lifetimes and they were fishing with
hemlines and they have never fished so
much under in their lives
and from that we did other deep-sea
exploration and that was the first time
that anybody put a camera on the deepest
sea there the drop cams are these big
spheres of borosilicate that have a
high-definition camera and LED lights
inside and they can be dropped to the
deepest point in the ocean we attach a
little cloth bag with some fish bait and
basically you drop the camera off the
side of the boat at the spot that you
decide and we drop them from 75 to 1600
meters and we did 16
drops so the camera goes to the bottom
and sometimes some shark is excited and
once at the bottom the camera is silent
for four hours the bait is attracting
marine life and then after four hours
the lights in the camera turn on and
then that’s when the fun part starts
like the we see things like this deep
sharks at forty mile reef we saw the
deepest coral reef on the planet 75
meters you have this growing healthy
coral reef and that happens only because
the waters that Pitkin are gin-clear
because it’s this special place in the
in the middle of the Pacific Ocean this
false cat shark only known for him from
a few individuals in the Atlantic in the
Pacific that was a squid that didn’t
like us and the best part is when the
camera goes to the surface so after five
hours on the bottom and electric current
dissolves a cable that drops the way the
camera goes back to the surface and then
he brings it on board and we watch the
video so in 16 drops we found 57 species
of fish eight of which are new to
science the area that the Dropcam films
is about two square meters so the 16
drops are an area about the size of this
stage the area of the Pitcairn Islands
exclusive economic zone is eight hundred
thousand square kilometers is the size
of Alaska and California together if in
an area the size of this stage we found
eight new species of fish imagine how
many hundreds or thousands of fish are
there waiting to be discovered our deep
exploration of the waters of the
Pitcairn Islands showed that these deep
reefs are totally intact this seaman’s
have not been trolled so most of these
humongous marine habitats it’s still
virgin so we went back to Pitkin to show
to the local community what we found and
they
could not believe it you should have
seen their faces now they told us if you
haven’t come here to do this expedition
if you hadn’t shown us this footage we
would have no idea of what’s around us
and they were very excited and you know
after getting out of the water at dulce
at all the the feeling the thought that
all of us had independently was this
place is so unique this place has to be
protected there is no other way how many
places like this we have on the planet
and same thing with Henderson same thing
with the deep sea miles less than 5% of
the ocean is pristine
the Pitkin Islands has some of the few
pristine environments left in the ocean
so there is only one sensible solution
here and that’s what we are colleagues
with Pugh we discuss with the local
community and they were so excited the
community met and voted unanimously to
recommend to the British government the
protection of the entire 200 miles owns
running the island and now with Pugh and
the Pitkin Council we are working
together to inspire the UK government to
create what would be the largest marine
reserve on the planet eight hundred and
thirty thousand square kilometres that
will be not done yet not done yet we’re
just trying thank you though and again
that would be the largest marine reserve
in the planet the size of Alaska and
California together and we need to
preserve these waters we need to
preserve this marine life the world
needs this marine environment as it is
now because without it the world would
be a much poorer place thank you very
much
[Applause]
[Music]
you
Pipkin Islands we knew very little about
it anywhere it’s almost impossible to
get there so we decided to go
immediately it was totally if nothing a
place that looks like the ocean 2,000
years ago imagine how many hundreds or
thousands of fish are there waiting to
be discovered and then we got a call
that we didn’t want to hear about we
fear that there have been some illegal
fishing in these waters this place is so
unique this place has to be protected
there is no other way how many places
like this we have on the planet
[Applause]
how many people have heard of watched
the mutiny on the bounty of course
everybody and the bounty was a British
ship that in 1787 was send by the
British government to Tahiti under the
command of Captain Bligh a branch of
sailors under the command of Christian
Fletcher decided to organize a mutiny
and they took command of the ship but
Christian and the others were looking
around for other islands until they
found Pitcairn Island and when they
arrived to Pitkin they sank the boat in
what’s known as bounty Bay today they
burned the boat and it sank two hundred
years later Pitkin is still a very
remote and isolated place and we know
very little about Pitkin especially
underwater it is remote it has
uninhabited islands we knew very little
about it anyways almost impossible to
get there so we decided to go
immediately and there are four islands
on the Pitcairn Islands
oh I know peat current Henderson and
Dulce and they belong to the UK they are
now an overseas territory of the United
Kingdom the four islands and the
200-mile exclusive economic zone around
the islands this is more than eight
hundred thousand square kilometres and
nobody nobody had studied the deep sea
around the islands in Dulce is this at
all which is 300 miles east of pecan
island and it’s one of the most isolated
adults on the planet and it’s the
southernmost at all in the world
so southernmost Atoll in the world means
that it is at the southern edge of the
distribution of corals which means that
the conditions for coral growth are not
optimal so this is a place in order like
its marginal for for the existence of
corals
so we were not hoping to find a nice
coral reef and when we champ in the
water we couldn’t believe it healthy
thriving corals covering must of the
button especially this one the most
spectacular this leaf coral it was like
a garden of pale blue giant roses you
know going to infinity so you are
sitting at 30 feet and looking
horizontally at your diving buddy how
far your diving buddy can go before you
lose sight of her 75 meters almost 240
feet this is the clearest visibility
ever measured in the Pacific there are
only a few places in Antarctica during
the right season where the water is more
clear my colleague there our underwater
cinematographer was a hundred feet deep
and he could still see 60 70 meters and
all he could see were coral and coral
and coral and coral we have never seen
this anywhere in the Pacific Ocean
hundred percent of the bottom more than
100 percent of the bottom is covered by
live coral because you see all these
corals growing on top of coral right so
more than hundred percent of the bottom
covered by live coral in the Caribbean
on average only five percent of the
bottom is covered by live coral the rest
is covered by seaweed and slime that
have overgrown and kill the corals and
over the corals abundant fish like these
nano a very curious fish forming schools
of thousands of fish and sharks lots of
sharks like these great reef sharks and
the white tip sharks the sharks are so
abundant here that they account for 65
percent of the biomass that means that
if you take all of the fish out of the
reef and weigh them the top predators
would account for 65% of that weight to
use a land analogy imagine in Africa
that would be more than one lion per
every zebra or will
this is what a pristine reef is like and
these sharks were very very curious and
they came and bumped our cameras a few
times and think about this these sharks
can grow up to 25 years these fishes
have never seen a human before
you haven’t been spoiled by bait or
chumming or motors or noise now these
are completely wild animals and you jump
in the water you are surrounded by 1015
sharks and more calm and they are very
curious but very cautious that’s why
they get to live so old that was a
pristine coral reef a doozy
healthy corals covering all the bottom
large fish lots of sharks clear water we
were so happy so so happy the worst
moment was when we had to come out of
the water at the end of each dive that
was really the have to go and and we
thought okay do see is Christine because
it’s so remote it is uninhabited and
it’s so far from the main fishing
grounds it’s so remote that it’s not
profitable it’s not economical to make a
fishing trip there right so our question
then was is that unique to do sea or
other uninhabited islands in the Pitkin
archipelago are also pristine and we
hoped that we have humans these islands
would be pristine so we went to
Henderson next and Henderson is about
ten miles long and three miles wide and
from a satellite photo it looks flat and
green and this is a photo composite
photo of ten different photos from the
sea it looks like it like a table UNESCO
designated Henderson a World Heritage
Site but they forgot about the water
surrounding the island which are another
heritage of humanity
it’s an unbelievable place healthy coral
reefs growing on these Azure waters and
tell me who doesn’t want to have this
photo as a screensaver in the computer
so we jump underwater and we find
another paradise full of top heads or
full of sharks and watching these sharks
swim patrol over the reef looking for
prey was like watching an underwater
ballet
it was totally hypnotic and again we
were so happy this is the thing that we
love the most being in a place that is
completely untouched by humans a place
that looks like the ocean a thousand
years ago a place where we are just
visitors we’re who are allowed to just
catch a glimpse of a world that is
disappearing and the Sharks were very
curious but they never they were never
aggressive even though you might not
think the same one you see the next
little bit
damselfish butterflyfish morals this
large red snappers which were very
inquisitive
and probably the most exciting thing in
Henderson water sharks
the Sharks were very curious and they
came to check us out very closely sharks
are very curious but they are cautious
now they surround you they swim around
you and it takes a long time for them to
get close and it’s always the younger
one who get a little crazy and they are
foolish like every teenager and they
come and bump in the camera and they get
excited but as long as you’re cool and
don’t get excited
the Sharks are going to leave you alone
but these guys are the fish that we fear
the most and these are the red snappers
are famous among our team because over
the years they have come to beat our
fins our camera our strobes – ear logs
and my ponytail yeah really really
really aggressive and curious they don’t
call them snapper for nothing and you
can see the scratches on this guy that
was before before we even get there and
and Henderson is also another sign that
of the health of Henderson is that we is
the only place where we found a Napoleon
rise on every dive then a Pauline Russ
is this huge massive crush the largest
of the family of the Russell’s that can
grow up to six feet and weigh 200 pounds
and they you used to be common on all
the shallow reefs of the Pacific but
they have been depleted everywhere
because some Asians think that the lips
of these fish are a delicacy but
fortunately at Henderson they still have
a refuge and not everything is large and
big and impressive there are some cute
animal here too and like you know there
are dozens of species of a small fish
that live inside the corals hiding from
the predators like this inch long coral
croucher which needs a kind of shave and
you know the corals themselves are so
extraordinary on the East Beach of
Henderson 20 meters depth we found the
largest coral we’ve seen on our
expeditions probably 1,000 years old so
imagine when
the Spanish conquistadores were sailing
over those waters in the sixteen
hundreds that coral was still was
already large and growing and we were so
happy we were so excited and then we got
a call on the radio from Mike I call
that we didn’t want to to hear about and
he found tons of trash on the beach at
Anderson lots of plastic and mostly
fishing gear you know and you go to
these remote islands and every remote
island you go – we found trash on the
beach and we know that trash can travel
long distances in the ocean but the
amount of fishing gear here really made
us afraid that something was going on
that there might have been the mat there
might be some illegal fishing nearby and
we decided to check another Island you
know which is the closest to a human
population to see if there were some
fishing here Henderson do see are still
pristine but are they in danger that was
the question that we wanted to answer
next so we went to a ena which is about
100 miles northwest of Pitkin Island and
it’s a typical at all with the shallow
Lagoon surrounded by a coral ring in
this beautiful island in the middle and
we explored the shallow reefs in the
lagoon and we found these wonderful
habitats with giant clams up to nine
giant clams per square meter with these
impossible colors the electric-blue
selected greens and these animals filter
the water for a living that’s what the
water in these lagoons is so crystal
clear and then offshore we found many
more fish like this barracudas cause of
200 Barracuda here surrounding our
cameraman and lots of other predators
like these groupers like the yellow edge
lyretail with these impossible reds and
greens and some of these fish you see
them and
you think who painted this you know this
is impossible nature you just saw so
incredible but the most interesting fees
that we saw was this one the titan
triggerfish the titan sugar fish very
large fish very shy and here it’s been
cleaned by a little cleaner wrasse
although what it’s clear what he needs
is a marine orthodontist but you know
Pitcairn Islands is a British colony
English teeth that was funny but what
was not funny was that we did not see
sharks at Bowie no at all
that wasn’t funny why we didn’t see
sharks on a remote uninhabited island in
the middle of the Pacific and the only
explanation is fishing if you’re not
fishing these reefs are overflowing with
sharks if there are no sharks if there
are no large fish is because somebody
has taken them out of the water and we
fear that there have been some illegal
and unreported fishing in these waters
so we know has been the first Island
victim of the human predation Henderson
and Lucy are still safe but for how long
now in Pitkin what about pit kern you
have a population of 58 they are fishing
but you know a speed can suffer the same
fate as we know so at the end of the
expression after three weeks going
around on these gorgeous places we
decided to go back to pit kern and here
you can see Adams town the only village
in town where the 58 people live 52 of
them are descendants of the mutineers of
the bounty and we were able to dive in
the shallows study the coral reefs and
we found great coral growth and lots of
fish but we saw no sharks at Pitcairn
Island do see in one dive one day we saw
35 sharks just swimming around Pitkin no
week of diving three times a day for
hours under water we didn’t see
single shark and talking to the locals
they reported that in the past there
have been in the recent past there have
been fishing boats fishing at night
offshore they don’t have the
capabilities to go out and kick them out
they have seen these lights this factory
boat outside Korea and Taiwanese
Japanese some Spanish boats and they
call them on the radio and they they
don’t reply so these islands are in
danger we wanted to do a final test we
have a final question
okay those in henderson are too far away
nobody’s fishing there or in us close to
french polynesia so maybe you have some
politicians going there to fish and they
kill the sharks the Sharks have been
eliminated over time around Pitt current
probably by these illegal fishing fleets
fishing at night but what about all this
amount there are hundreds of ancient
volcanoes in this exclusive economic
zone in this 200 mile zone and some come
close to the surface have they been
fished you know they are so far away
from Pete Kern that who can know if
about this fishing there so we decided
to go to the 40 mile reef which is this
reef it’s an ancient volcano now it’s
called a sea mount that is 75 meters
from the surface and the locals have
been there three four times in their
lifetimes and they were fishing with
hemlines and they have never fished so
much under in their lives
and from that we did other deep-sea
exploration and that was the first time
that anybody put a camera on the deepest
sea there the drop cams are these big
spheres of borosilicate that have a
high-definition camera and LED lights
inside and they can be dropped to the
deepest point in the ocean we attach a
little cloth bag with some fish bait and
basically you drop the camera off the
side of the boat at the spot that you
decide and we drop them from 75 to 1600
meters and we did 16
drops so the camera goes to the bottom
and sometimes some shark is excited and
once at the bottom the camera is silent
for four hours the bait is attracting
marine life and then after four hours
the lights in the camera turn on and
then that’s when the fun part starts
like the we see things like this deep
sharks at forty mile reef we saw the
deepest coral reef on the planet 75
meters you have this growing healthy
coral reef and that happens only because
the waters that Pitkin are gin-clear
because it’s this special place in the
in the middle of the Pacific Ocean this
false cat shark only known for him from
a few individuals in the Atlantic in the
Pacific that was a squid that didn’t
like us and the best part is when the
camera goes to the surface so after five
hours on the bottom and electric current
dissolves a cable that drops the way the
camera goes back to the surface and then
he brings it on board and we watch the
video so in 16 drops we found 57 species
of fish eight of which are new to
science the area that the Dropcam films
is about two square meters so the 16
drops are an area about the size of this
stage the area of the Pitcairn Islands
exclusive economic zone is eight hundred
thousand square kilometers is the size
of Alaska and California together if in
an area the size of this stage we found
eight new species of fish imagine how
many hundreds or thousands of fish are
there waiting to be discovered our deep
exploration of the waters of the
Pitcairn Islands showed that these deep
reefs are totally intact this seaman’s
have not been trolled so most of these
humongous marine habitats it’s still
virgin so we went back to Pitkin to show
to the local community what we found and
they
could not believe it you should have
seen their faces now they told us if you
haven’t come here to do this expedition
if you hadn’t shown us this footage we
would have no idea of what’s around us
and they were very excited and you know
after getting out of the water at dulce
at all the the feeling the thought that
all of us had independently was this
place is so unique this place has to be
protected there is no other way how many
places like this we have on the planet
and same thing with Henderson same thing
with the deep sea miles less than 5% of
the ocean is pristine
the Pitkin Islands has some of the few
pristine environments left in the ocean
so there is only one sensible solution
here and that’s what we are colleagues
with Pugh we discuss with the local
community and they were so excited the
community met and voted unanimously to
recommend to the British government the
protection of the entire 200 miles owns
running the island and now with Pugh and
the Pitkin Council we are working
together to inspire the UK government to
create what would be the largest marine
reserve on the planet eight hundred and
thirty thousand square kilometres that
will be not done yet not done yet we’re
just trying thank you though and again
that would be the largest marine reserve
in the planet the size of Alaska and
California together and we need to
preserve these waters we need to
preserve this marine life the world
needs this marine environment as it is
now because without it the world would
be a much poorer place thank you very
much
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