1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,162 WWW.MY-SUBS.COM 1 00:01:05,152 --> 00:01:06,762 I got lost in the ocean. 2 00:01:09,591 --> 00:01:11,114 I was underwater. 3 00:01:11,158 --> 00:01:13,377 Took a wrong turn, got stuck in some currents. 4 00:01:13,421 --> 00:01:15,205 By the time I surfaced, I was a mile and a half 5 00:01:15,249 --> 00:01:16,685 away from where I should've been. 6 00:01:19,601 --> 00:01:21,081 I thought I was gonna die. 7 00:01:27,652 --> 00:01:29,567 The only option I had was to not give up. 8 00:01:39,664 --> 00:01:42,841 That was very much a metaphor for what we're going through now. 9 00:01:45,235 --> 00:01:47,716 'Cause if you give up, 100% you're dead. 10 00:01:50,110 --> 00:01:51,807 I think we're in that situation right now. 11 00:01:52,808 --> 00:01:54,331 You can't give up. 12 00:02:23,273 --> 00:02:27,103 So we just snuck into Costa Rica. 13 00:02:27,147 --> 00:02:30,889 The first time since 2002, 14 years ago, 14 00:02:32,413 --> 00:02:36,243 to check out what's going on with the fin industry here 15 00:02:36,286 --> 00:02:38,897 and what we might be able to do about it. 16 00:02:38,941 --> 00:02:42,771 And we had a local contact set up to do interviews for us. 17 00:02:42,814 --> 00:02:46,731 So, the word is already in the Costa Rican government now that... 18 00:02:48,429 --> 00:02:50,735 I'm here and that Sharkwateris here, 19 00:02:50,779 --> 00:02:52,607 and we're making Sharkwater 2. 20 00:02:52,650 --> 00:02:55,650 We're not here without a filming permit, we already know the country. 21 00:02:56,263 --> 00:02:57,873 So we gotta watch our back. 22 00:03:16,892 --> 00:03:18,502 15 years ago, 23 00:03:18,546 --> 00:03:22,332 I began a quest to save sharks from shark fin soup, 24 00:03:22,376 --> 00:03:23,942 a Chinese delicacy. 25 00:03:27,076 --> 00:03:29,644 Millions of sharks were being finned, 26 00:03:29,687 --> 00:03:32,473 where they were pulled out of the water, their fins were cut off, 27 00:03:32,516 --> 00:03:36,041 and were thrown back into the oceans to die, 28 00:03:36,085 --> 00:03:40,263 destroying the populations of some of the most important predators 29 00:03:40,307 --> 00:03:42,004 the planet has ever had. 30 00:03:50,752 --> 00:03:53,494 And I thought that if I could change the public's view of sharks 31 00:03:53,537 --> 00:03:56,714 if I could make them love these animals like I did... 32 00:03:56,758 --> 00:04:00,283 See that they're beautiful and amazing and magnificent and important, 33 00:04:00,327 --> 00:04:02,242 then maybe they'd wanna fight for their protection 34 00:04:02,285 --> 00:04:04,679 like they fight for pandas and elephants and bears. 35 00:04:12,687 --> 00:04:14,776 Well, the movie, you know, it took me five years, 36 00:04:14,819 --> 00:04:17,300 and nearly killed me half a dozen times. 37 00:04:20,825 --> 00:04:22,697 We had to run from the country while the coast guard 38 00:04:22,740 --> 00:04:24,699 was firing machine guns at us. 39 00:04:24,742 --> 00:04:27,310 And it, you know, turned into this crazy story 40 00:04:27,354 --> 00:04:30,748 that shows you how much money there is in the exploitation of sharks. 41 00:04:43,979 --> 00:04:45,807 The film, Sharkwater, 42 00:04:45,850 --> 00:04:48,636 brought the plight of sharks for shark fin soup into the spotlight, 43 00:04:48,679 --> 00:04:51,073 resulting in the creation of conservation groups, 44 00:04:51,116 --> 00:04:53,684 government policy changing all around the world, 45 00:04:53,728 --> 00:04:57,340 and an empowered youth that knew they could change the world. 46 00:04:59,908 --> 00:05:03,128 Today, shark finning is banned throughout most of the world. 47 00:05:09,265 --> 00:05:12,573 But now, sharks are in more trouble than ever before. 48 00:05:14,575 --> 00:05:18,883 We're killing up to 150 million sharks a year, 49 00:05:18,927 --> 00:05:21,930 but scientists can only account for 70 million of those. 50 00:05:23,758 --> 00:05:27,544 There are 80 million sharks every year that are getting killed, 51 00:05:27,588 --> 00:05:31,069 and nobody knows why, or where those sharks are going. 52 00:05:42,820 --> 00:05:46,171 And what's changed in Costa Rica in the last ten years? 53 00:05:46,215 --> 00:05:50,611 Well, it's changed dramatically from Sharkwater. 54 00:05:50,654 --> 00:05:54,223 We're actually turning into marine conservation leaders 55 00:05:54,266 --> 00:05:55,790 in these conventions. 56 00:05:55,833 --> 00:05:57,661 The Costa Rican is doing a great job. 57 00:05:57,705 --> 00:06:00,577 Unfortunately, we had a new president step in, 58 00:06:00,621 --> 00:06:03,101 and in the matter of a stroke of a pen, 59 00:06:03,145 --> 00:06:06,235 in one year, many of these policies were reversed. 60 00:06:06,278 --> 00:06:09,586 We saw Costa Rica export 900 kilos of hammerhead shark fins 61 00:06:09,630 --> 00:06:11,501 against the CITES convention. 62 00:06:11,545 --> 00:06:14,417 They actually did two exportations, um, to do this. 63 00:06:14,461 --> 00:06:18,029 The government of Costa Rica just decided to ignore its commitments with CITES 64 00:06:18,073 --> 00:06:19,466 and the international community, 65 00:06:19,509 --> 00:06:20,902 and Costa Rica just decided, 66 00:06:20,945 --> 00:06:22,425 "We're gonna export these hammerhead shark fins 67 00:06:22,469 --> 00:06:23,818 "because they're public interest." 68 00:06:23,861 --> 00:06:25,210 And they did. 69 00:06:31,956 --> 00:06:34,524 And they even got the president of Costa Rica 70 00:06:34,568 --> 00:06:39,050 to sign a statement saying that the government was no longer going to protect sharks 71 00:06:39,094 --> 00:06:40,965 in international conventions. 72 00:06:43,228 --> 00:06:45,143 And that's when we really flipped, 73 00:06:45,187 --> 00:06:49,104 because the work that we had done for ten years over three presidents, 74 00:06:49,147 --> 00:06:52,499 in a matter of months, it's all, you know, torn to pieces. 75 00:06:52,542 --> 00:06:54,742 Costa Rica's not going that way anymore. 76 00:08:01,437 --> 00:08:04,353 Um, is shark finning still happening in Costa Rica? 77 00:08:04,396 --> 00:08:08,357 Uh, it's happening, but without the permission 78 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,098 and without the support, 79 00:08:10,141 --> 00:08:13,884 and without the, uh, willingness of the Costa Rican government. 80 00:08:13,928 --> 00:08:16,539 Finning is happening simply because it's an illegal action. 81 00:08:16,583 --> 00:08:19,760 And just as it happens with narcotrafficking 82 00:08:19,803 --> 00:08:22,023 or any other action, it continues to happen, 83 00:08:22,066 --> 00:08:23,459 and I regret it. 84 00:08:23,503 --> 00:08:25,592 And the authorities of Costa Rica 85 00:08:25,635 --> 00:08:29,073 are taking all the necessary steps to prevent it. 86 00:08:31,423 --> 00:08:34,514 It's always the same with them. Say one thing and do another. 87 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,133 We're headed to Puntarenas 88 00:08:45,176 --> 00:08:50,138 because we'd figured out that if you want to bring illicit fins into Costa Rica, 89 00:08:50,181 --> 00:08:53,402 all you have to do is land them in port on the weekend 90 00:08:53,445 --> 00:08:57,188 when the fisheries body that looks after fish 91 00:08:57,232 --> 00:08:58,973 isn't working. 92 00:08:59,016 --> 00:09:01,715 So we're gonna rock up to Puntarenas, pull out our cameras, 93 00:09:01,758 --> 00:09:04,544 and see if we can film anything illegal 94 00:09:04,587 --> 00:09:08,852 happening on the weekends and happening without any official body watching. 95 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,178 Are you going to be your real name? 96 00:09:30,221 --> 00:09:31,353 No. 97 00:09:32,833 --> 00:09:35,139 I'm gonna be Laurette. 98 00:09:35,183 --> 00:09:37,183 How about when they ask you for your ID? 99 00:09:38,665 --> 00:09:41,102 So do you think they'd have to take my ID? 100 00:09:41,145 --> 00:09:43,145 Just trying to watch your back, Regi. 101 00:09:47,543 --> 00:09:49,893 People don't realize there's so much money in the trade of animals, 102 00:09:49,937 --> 00:09:51,373 there's so much money in the trade of fins. 103 00:09:51,416 --> 00:09:53,549 It's a billion-dollar industry. 104 00:09:53,593 --> 00:09:56,508 There's multimillionaires playing mafia rings 105 00:09:56,552 --> 00:09:58,946 like puppeteers trying to exploit the resource. 106 00:10:05,692 --> 00:10:07,145 You've got to be kidding me. 107 00:10:07,911 --> 00:10:09,521 I'm not surprised. 108 00:10:22,143 --> 00:10:24,319 We're gonna meet Williams Flores, 109 00:10:24,362 --> 00:10:26,451 who, when we were last in Puntarenas, 110 00:10:26,495 --> 00:10:28,671 told us about these mafia warehouses 111 00:10:28,715 --> 00:10:30,368 drying shark fins. 112 00:10:30,412 --> 00:10:33,589 And so now we're back in Costa Rica, we're gonna go meet him 113 00:10:33,633 --> 00:10:37,985 and see how the situation has changed, where they're drying fins, 114 00:10:38,028 --> 00:10:41,292 and what we might be able to do 115 00:10:41,336 --> 00:10:43,207 to help save sharks in Costa Rica. 116 00:10:50,650 --> 00:10:51,912 - Hello. - Hi. 117 00:10:51,955 --> 00:10:55,002 - How are you? - Good. Come here. 118 00:11:18,460 --> 00:11:20,462 - Thanks. - That's yours. 119 00:11:20,505 --> 00:11:23,987 Get a life jacket. It's better. 120 00:11:24,031 --> 00:11:26,598 - For what? To look like a tourist? - To seem more tourist. 121 00:11:26,642 --> 00:11:28,426 Sure. Good idea. 122 00:12:10,730 --> 00:12:12,122 Which one is the Varadero? 123 00:12:12,166 --> 00:12:14,690 That one, right there, Franju. 124 00:12:14,734 --> 00:12:16,823 Sharks are worth an enormous amount of money, 125 00:12:16,866 --> 00:12:18,520 and it's mostly for their fins. 126 00:12:18,563 --> 00:12:22,306 And, you know, a single pound of fin is worth over $200 US. 127 00:12:22,350 --> 00:12:25,179 So, to fishermen around the world in third-world countries, 128 00:12:25,222 --> 00:12:27,442 you can pull up a shark, cut off its fins, 129 00:12:27,485 --> 00:12:29,574 throw the rest of the body back, dry the fin. 130 00:12:29,618 --> 00:12:31,402 You don't need refrigeration systems on your boat, 131 00:12:31,446 --> 00:12:33,883 so even the most decrepit boats can go out there 132 00:12:33,927 --> 00:12:35,450 and make enormous amounts of money. 133 00:12:35,493 --> 00:12:38,496 And it's... Sharks are being fished everywhere. 134 00:12:40,107 --> 00:12:41,935 Oh, look, he's got something. 135 00:12:41,978 --> 00:12:43,675 What is it? 136 00:12:43,719 --> 00:12:45,547 Looks like a hammerhead to me. 137 00:12:48,332 --> 00:12:50,204 So, you wanna buy it off him? 138 00:12:50,247 --> 00:12:51,800 He looks like he's interested in... 139 00:12:53,773 --> 00:12:55,731 Blacktips? 140 00:12:55,775 --> 00:12:59,474 Ehm, no, this is a little hammerhead. 141 00:13:16,317 --> 00:13:18,972 They have 30 of these ones. 142 00:13:19,015 --> 00:13:21,713 30, and they're little blacktips, right? 143 00:13:21,757 --> 00:13:24,760 - Yeah. - Yeah. Okay. 144 00:13:24,804 --> 00:13:26,327 You have to be careful. 145 00:13:26,370 --> 00:13:27,719 Okay. 146 00:13:27,763 --> 00:13:29,591 That's a must. 147 00:13:29,634 --> 00:13:32,724 You cannot go... Especially if you're gonna be shooting in Puntarenas. 148 00:13:32,768 --> 00:13:35,902 You already know how dangerous it is right there. 149 00:13:35,945 --> 00:13:37,686 You guys run for your life. 150 00:13:37,729 --> 00:13:40,602 I remember one shooting... You were meeting, 151 00:13:40,645 --> 00:13:44,127 or you went into a warehouse, I think so, 152 00:13:44,171 --> 00:13:47,565 and you saw the shark fins on the roof. 153 00:13:47,609 --> 00:13:50,090 And you guys were running, literally. 154 00:13:50,133 --> 00:13:51,656 So we have to be careful. 155 00:13:53,571 --> 00:13:55,530 Costa Rica is a good country. 156 00:13:56,792 --> 00:13:59,882 Unfortunately, there's very bad layers in it. 157 00:14:01,971 --> 00:14:03,364 Ready, Rob. 158 00:15:13,782 --> 00:15:15,392 Holy shit, there's one clear panel 159 00:15:15,436 --> 00:15:16,698 and I think there's fins in it. 160 00:15:18,700 --> 00:15:21,529 When we realized how much money there was in fins 161 00:15:21,572 --> 00:15:23,357 and all of these operations, 162 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,316 and how much money was going to Costa Rica for the fin industry, 163 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:28,275 that was a major eye-opener. 164 00:15:29,319 --> 00:15:32,844 Wow, that's a lot of fins. 165 00:15:32,888 --> 00:15:38,024 You think of Costa Rica and you think, you know, lots of conservation happening. 166 00:15:38,067 --> 00:15:40,156 You don't expect one of the most progressive countries 167 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:41,941 down there to encounter that, but we did. 168 00:16:04,006 --> 00:16:06,095 We have to leave this place right now. 169 00:16:06,139 --> 00:16:07,575 What's going on? 170 00:16:07,618 --> 00:16:12,406 This hotel is from the owner of Mariscos Wang. 171 00:16:12,449 --> 00:16:15,235 It's Diego, so it's one of the big mafia 172 00:16:15,278 --> 00:16:16,584 in Puntarenas. 173 00:16:16,627 --> 00:16:18,020 That makes perfect sense. 174 00:16:18,064 --> 00:16:20,544 We have been sleeping here, 175 00:16:20,588 --> 00:16:21,893 so it's not nice. 176 00:16:21,937 --> 00:16:25,027 You know, we've been here thus far. 177 00:16:25,071 --> 00:16:28,291 Yeah, but we were flying drones off the roof yesterday. 178 00:16:28,335 --> 00:16:29,727 What do you mean? 179 00:16:29,771 --> 00:16:32,252 We're being a little more conspicuous today. 180 00:16:32,295 --> 00:16:35,690 Taking off remote control helicopters 181 00:16:35,733 --> 00:16:38,040 off the roof and flying over the ports. 182 00:16:38,910 --> 00:16:40,956 So, now, 183 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,611 a few people have seen us do that. 184 00:16:43,654 --> 00:16:46,048 I think we have to check out and go our separate ways. 185 00:16:46,092 --> 00:16:47,180 For sure. 186 00:16:56,972 --> 00:16:58,887 After that, I got death threats, 187 00:16:58,930 --> 00:17:00,497 and I had to leave Costa Rica. 188 00:17:03,109 --> 00:17:06,503 The next time I saw Rob was just before the last dive. 189 00:17:27,307 --> 00:17:29,309 I was a fish nerd when I was a kid. 190 00:17:32,921 --> 00:17:35,054 I was chubby, I stuttered, 191 00:17:35,097 --> 00:17:37,578 and I ended up liking animals more than people. 192 00:17:46,065 --> 00:17:49,329 I had a goldfish bowl, I think, from the time I was zero, 193 00:17:49,372 --> 00:17:51,287 and just fell in love with fish, 194 00:17:51,331 --> 00:17:53,507 and looked into that world and saw these creatures 195 00:17:53,550 --> 00:17:56,727 that I didn't really understand, that could breathe water, that could fly. 196 00:18:07,869 --> 00:18:09,827 I had the opportunity to go underwater 197 00:18:09,871 --> 00:18:11,481 and hang out in the Caribbean as a kid. 198 00:18:15,094 --> 00:18:17,052 Because I was so young, I wasn't allowed to dive. 199 00:18:17,096 --> 00:18:19,402 The only way I could go down there and hang out with these fish 200 00:18:19,446 --> 00:18:21,143 was holding my breath and swimming down. 201 00:18:23,189 --> 00:18:26,017 And it just... It was the most magical world possible. 202 00:18:26,061 --> 00:18:28,455 You know, you're in a three-dimensional world, you can fly. 203 00:18:29,543 --> 00:18:31,893 And, uh, as a kid that just enthralled me. 204 00:18:43,252 --> 00:18:45,341 I met my first shark when I was nine. 205 00:18:49,171 --> 00:18:51,217 I saw the shark out of the corner of my eye, 206 00:18:52,174 --> 00:18:54,698 and it swam in my direction. 207 00:18:58,876 --> 00:19:02,489 And the second it made eye contact with me, it freaked out, 208 00:19:02,532 --> 00:19:04,143 and swam the other direction. 209 00:19:20,811 --> 00:19:22,944 For me, that whole experience, 210 00:19:22,987 --> 00:19:24,685 five-foot Caribbean Reef shark 211 00:19:24,728 --> 00:19:27,209 terrified of a nine-year-old kid, 212 00:19:27,253 --> 00:19:30,386 removed all the fear I had of sharks in the ocean 213 00:19:30,430 --> 00:19:33,563 and allowed me to go explore it further, fall deeper in love. 214 00:20:24,788 --> 00:20:26,834 And I'm here in Cat Island in the Bahamas 215 00:20:26,877 --> 00:20:29,837 because one of the most amazing sharks in the world, 216 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:33,319 the oceanic whitetip shark, come here only in the month of May. 217 00:20:33,362 --> 00:20:37,540 Now, the oceanic whitetip shark was once the most abundant large predator on the planet. 218 00:20:37,584 --> 00:20:40,717 They were everywhere, but because they have massive fins 219 00:20:40,761 --> 00:20:43,067 that are highly valued in the fin industry, 220 00:20:43,111 --> 00:20:46,157 oceanic whitetip shark populations in the Atlantic and Caribbean 221 00:20:46,201 --> 00:20:48,159 have dropped 99%. 222 00:20:51,424 --> 00:20:54,557 When I heard these creatures were spotted in this area, 223 00:20:54,601 --> 00:20:56,646 my team decided to take a chance 224 00:20:56,690 --> 00:20:58,474 and see if we could capture them on film 225 00:20:58,518 --> 00:21:00,520 so others could see the reality 226 00:21:00,563 --> 00:21:02,826 behind what Jacques Cousteau once called, 227 00:21:02,870 --> 00:21:05,307 "The most dangerous of all sharks." 228 00:21:11,487 --> 00:21:14,882 Having never filmed them before, and with a serious reputation, 229 00:21:14,925 --> 00:21:18,059 I'm a bit cautious as I learned to understand these sharks. 230 00:22:14,724 --> 00:22:17,336 Oceanics turned out to be absolute sweethearts. 231 00:22:20,295 --> 00:22:24,473 They had the most expressive and curious eyes I've seen in any shark. 232 00:22:24,517 --> 00:22:27,911 And you can really feel them reading you. 233 00:22:27,955 --> 00:22:30,914 They're also a little cheeky and very intelligent. 234 00:22:44,450 --> 00:22:47,409 The most important thing for me when filming sharks 235 00:22:47,453 --> 00:22:50,194 is to try to understand what life is like for them, 236 00:22:50,238 --> 00:22:54,590 how they see the world, and what makes them special, 237 00:22:54,634 --> 00:22:58,464 because my goal is to make people fall in love with sharks. 238 00:22:58,507 --> 00:23:01,858 And for that, people need to see a bit of their softer side, 239 00:23:01,902 --> 00:23:03,469 a bit of their intelligence, 240 00:23:03,512 --> 00:23:06,297 and maybe see a bit of themselves in the sharks. 241 00:23:55,085 --> 00:23:58,085 Something big today, baby. Something big. 242 00:23:58,524 --> 00:24:00,526 Stand by, we're gonna hang 'em high. 243 00:24:03,877 --> 00:24:05,705 I got a good feeling today, baby. 244 00:24:15,802 --> 00:24:18,500 Oh, do we have to? 245 00:24:18,544 --> 00:24:20,937 Well, they say 100,000, but I don't think that's true. 246 00:24:20,981 --> 00:24:22,504 I say more like 50. 247 00:24:22,548 --> 00:24:24,419 - 50,000? - Yeah. 248 00:24:24,463 --> 00:24:27,466 What kind of shark you'd like to catch today more than any other? 249 00:24:27,509 --> 00:24:32,209 Right now? Uh, I'd like to catch, uh, either a mako or a tiger. 250 00:24:32,253 --> 00:24:35,343 Hammerheads are probably the most common sharks we catch out here. 251 00:24:39,173 --> 00:24:41,523 No. Negative. 252 00:24:41,567 --> 00:24:43,177 No, hammerheads aren't endangered. 253 00:24:43,220 --> 00:24:45,520 There's plenty of them out there and we catch them every trip. 254 00:24:46,528 --> 00:24:48,878 That's all Shark Weekpropaganda. 255 00:24:58,671 --> 00:25:00,716 I mean, you know, you gotta put it in perspective. 256 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,545 I mean, this is just an animal that's on Earth 257 00:25:03,589 --> 00:25:05,591 for... For what reason? 258 00:25:06,461 --> 00:25:08,028 For man to eat. 259 00:25:12,423 --> 00:25:14,643 I mean, sure, there's a decline in the sharks 260 00:25:14,687 --> 00:25:17,254 because of the commercial guys are whacking them pretty good. 261 00:25:19,039 --> 00:25:21,389 And there's a demand for them. 262 00:25:21,432 --> 00:25:26,568 So, you put a trophy price on something, it's gonna die. 263 00:25:26,612 --> 00:25:28,570 Simple. Show me the money. 264 00:25:38,624 --> 00:25:40,495 We normally get a bite right about now. 265 00:25:42,845 --> 00:25:44,934 Sometimes, you know, you're gonna wait a long time for a bite. 266 00:25:44,978 --> 00:25:46,588 Like today, when there's no current. 267 00:25:46,632 --> 00:25:47,850 Water's kinda dirty. 268 00:25:47,894 --> 00:25:50,157 A lot of trash in the water. 269 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,421 And, uh, you just have to wait. 270 00:25:57,904 --> 00:26:01,908 What do you think it is people like about going and fishing for sharks? 271 00:26:01,951 --> 00:26:05,128 Sharks are the apex predator, you know. 272 00:26:05,172 --> 00:26:08,523 They always had been and they always will be. 273 00:26:08,567 --> 00:26:10,525 What was that? You got a bite there? 274 00:26:10,569 --> 00:26:12,483 Watch out! Get the nose Ryan. 275 00:26:12,527 --> 00:26:13,746 Getting a bite right now. 276 00:26:13,789 --> 00:26:15,356 I got a bomb. I got a bite here. 277 00:26:16,313 --> 00:26:17,663 He got a bite. 278 00:26:17,706 --> 00:26:20,056 Take a line. Take a line. Big fish here. Big fish. 279 00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:22,189 All right, get set up, guys. Get set up. 280 00:26:23,364 --> 00:26:25,496 Oh, yeah. Big fish here. Whoo! 281 00:26:25,540 --> 00:26:26,628 Right in his head. 282 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,066 Easy now, easy. Very slow is good. 283 00:26:32,678 --> 00:26:34,767 Cheer up. Cheer up. 284 00:26:34,810 --> 00:26:36,333 Get ready to get it here. 285 00:26:36,377 --> 00:26:37,508 I am ready. 286 00:26:37,552 --> 00:26:39,119 How long is this going to take? 287 00:26:39,162 --> 00:26:40,947 Sometimes, they'll come right up to the boat, 288 00:26:40,990 --> 00:26:42,426 you get an identification on them, 289 00:26:42,470 --> 00:26:44,254 and it might be another hour after that, 290 00:26:44,298 --> 00:26:49,259 it's really, really, uh, average fight 291 00:26:49,303 --> 00:26:53,655 with this setup, with this type of rod and reel combination. 292 00:26:53,699 --> 00:26:56,179 Average fight on your average shark, 293 00:26:56,223 --> 00:26:59,356 which is a lot of different variables, obviously. 294 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,837 It's about half-hour or 45 minutes. 295 00:27:01,881 --> 00:27:04,797 They could go a lot quicker or go a lot longer. 296 00:27:17,113 --> 00:27:19,713 People tell you your whole life to be afraid of sharks. 297 00:27:21,291 --> 00:27:23,554 Pretty well everything we've been receiving from the media, 298 00:27:23,598 --> 00:27:25,774 from just about everybody, is that sharks are dangerous, 299 00:27:25,818 --> 00:27:28,218 and they're gonna kill you and they're gonna eat you. 300 00:27:30,083 --> 00:27:31,911 But the reality is totally different. 301 00:27:39,048 --> 00:27:41,790 You know, they've been here for actually 400 million years. 302 00:27:45,272 --> 00:27:47,274 They survived five major extinctions on Earth 303 00:27:47,317 --> 00:27:49,798 that wiped out most life on the planet. 304 00:27:49,842 --> 00:27:52,975 They've seen life on Earth rebuilt from scratch five times. 305 00:27:56,109 --> 00:27:59,112 450 million years of shark's presence on Earth, 306 00:27:59,155 --> 00:28:01,418 we've decimated them 30 years. 307 00:28:03,638 --> 00:28:08,338 Shark populations dropped 90% in 30 years. 90%. 308 00:28:10,689 --> 00:28:13,039 How could this be happening? How could this be happening? 309 00:28:57,779 --> 00:29:01,435 Sharks, in particular, a lot of them in particular, 310 00:29:01,478 --> 00:29:04,438 - hammerheads seem to not survive... - After you catch 'em? 311 00:29:04,481 --> 00:29:06,135 After you catch 'em. 312 00:29:06,179 --> 00:29:10,270 If you just keep by the boat for a few minutes or so, 313 00:29:10,313 --> 00:29:13,099 their chance of survival is really, really slim to none. 314 00:29:13,142 --> 00:29:14,535 - Yeah? - Yeah. 315 00:29:14,578 --> 00:29:16,276 You almost have to cut 'em off at the boat 316 00:29:16,319 --> 00:29:17,843 and let them keep going swimming. 317 00:29:17,886 --> 00:29:19,105 - Yeah. - Yeah. 318 00:29:19,148 --> 00:29:21,150 You stop and take a picture, 319 00:29:21,194 --> 00:29:24,023 and try to get their hooks out and all that stuff. 320 00:29:24,066 --> 00:29:26,155 It's probably not gonna survive. 321 00:29:26,199 --> 00:29:30,072 Yeah. And that's okay with you? 322 00:29:30,116 --> 00:29:31,682 - If the sharks don't... - Well, what're you gonna do? 323 00:29:31,726 --> 00:29:34,642 You can't, um, put a sign on the hook and say, 324 00:29:34,685 --> 00:29:37,253 "Hey, I don't want any hammerheads biting this bait." 325 00:29:37,297 --> 00:29:38,777 I mean, how're you gonna do that? 326 00:29:43,999 --> 00:29:45,827 Well done. 327 00:29:45,871 --> 00:29:47,263 Well done. 328 00:29:47,307 --> 00:29:49,004 Pretty work, guys. Pretty work. 329 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:51,964 Maddie, what's happening? 330 00:30:00,755 --> 00:30:02,017 Grab the other side. 331 00:30:05,542 --> 00:30:07,066 Nice work, Maddie. 332 00:30:08,850 --> 00:30:10,460 It's a wrap. 333 00:30:10,504 --> 00:30:13,246 By the time you released, he swam away really good. 334 00:30:14,900 --> 00:30:16,771 Good job. 335 00:30:16,815 --> 00:30:19,774 Hey, you gotta break a couple of eggs if you wanna make an omelette. 336 00:30:19,818 --> 00:30:21,297 Remember that, all right? 337 00:30:21,341 --> 00:30:22,342 Good job. 338 00:30:27,956 --> 00:30:29,784 That was really fucked up, bro. 339 00:30:33,266 --> 00:30:37,923 I have seen, like, a hammerhead like that once in my lifetime, 340 00:30:37,966 --> 00:30:41,404 in the distance, on the Great Barrier Reef, 341 00:30:41,448 --> 00:30:45,104 for about 15 seconds before it swam off. 342 00:30:45,147 --> 00:30:47,976 And that was the closest I've ever been to a hammerhead, 343 00:30:48,020 --> 00:30:50,936 and that was terrible. 344 00:30:52,938 --> 00:30:56,245 He's thrashing around at the end, thrashing around. 345 00:30:58,291 --> 00:31:00,119 And he just, like, gave up. 346 00:31:01,729 --> 00:31:03,209 That's the worst thing about it, 347 00:31:03,252 --> 00:31:06,647 like, you can film that on a commercial fishing boat, 348 00:31:06,690 --> 00:31:09,780 and it's still messed up, which I understand why they do it. 349 00:31:09,824 --> 00:31:12,653 But when people do that kind of stuff for fun, 350 00:31:12,696 --> 00:31:18,702 I have absolutely no contemplation of what's going through that person's head, 351 00:31:18,746 --> 00:31:20,661 why that's fun for someone. 352 00:31:27,015 --> 00:31:29,017 Rob said 353 00:31:29,061 --> 00:31:33,021 it was good to see me having so much care and sadness over an individual. 354 00:31:33,065 --> 00:31:36,242 And I could still cry over one animal after all we have seen. 355 00:31:38,505 --> 00:31:40,202 It was like an older brother. 356 00:32:08,622 --> 00:32:10,102 The killing of sharks is, I think, 357 00:32:10,145 --> 00:32:11,712 is one of the biggest concerns that we should have 358 00:32:11,755 --> 00:32:13,453 on the planet ecologically today. 359 00:32:15,281 --> 00:32:17,544 We depend on ecosystems for survival. 360 00:32:17,587 --> 00:32:19,241 We depend on other species. 361 00:32:19,285 --> 00:32:22,810 They're part and parcel of ourselves, of our daily lives. 362 00:32:22,853 --> 00:32:25,334 Removing sharks is removing part of the framework 363 00:32:25,378 --> 00:32:27,815 that allows life to exist on land. 364 00:32:27,858 --> 00:32:31,384 It's the animal that sits on top of 70% of the oxygen 365 00:32:31,427 --> 00:32:34,996 in the air that we breathe from phytoplankton in the oceans. 366 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:39,044 If you remove once species, the consequences ripple through entire ecosystems. 367 00:32:39,087 --> 00:32:43,004 And right now, we're removing, you know, the most important predator the planet has. 368 00:32:43,048 --> 00:32:46,312 And the consequences are going to not just affect oceanic ecosystems, 369 00:32:46,355 --> 00:32:48,705 they're going to affect our ecosystems and ourselves. 370 00:33:43,456 --> 00:33:46,633 We're now killing up to 150 million sharks a year, 371 00:33:46,676 --> 00:33:49,288 and it's not just shark fin soup anymore. 372 00:33:50,941 --> 00:33:54,206 Sharks are now being killed and renamed and fed to us, 373 00:33:54,249 --> 00:33:55,903 so we don't know we're eating shark. 374 00:34:00,038 --> 00:34:03,650 This is a massive scandal representing tens of millions of sharks every year. 375 00:34:25,715 --> 00:34:27,195 Eating sharks is a bad idea. 376 00:34:29,458 --> 00:34:32,853 We're eating endangered super predators. 377 00:34:32,896 --> 00:34:36,161 We're eating animals that can take 40 years to reach sexual maturity. 378 00:34:36,204 --> 00:34:37,814 They can have very few young. 379 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,517 Most of the pollution we've ever made as a species 380 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,954 has gone into the environment untreated. 381 00:34:46,997 --> 00:34:50,349 And that accumulates in living animal matter 382 00:34:50,392 --> 00:34:54,179 and concentrates as you go up the food chain. 383 00:34:54,222 --> 00:34:57,007 By the time you get to sharks, they're enormously toxic. 384 00:34:57,051 --> 00:35:02,404 With things like lead and mercury and even neurotoxins. 385 00:35:02,448 --> 00:35:06,234 So it's important that we keep sharks out of our food. 386 00:35:09,194 --> 00:35:12,327 They're enormously toxic. 387 00:35:12,371 --> 00:35:15,113 Let's recommend to women and children, don't eat them at all. 388 00:35:17,767 --> 00:35:20,422 It's really important to bring this message to the public. 389 00:35:37,352 --> 00:35:38,571 Here are the fins. 390 00:35:45,621 --> 00:35:48,189 - It's worth a lot of money. - Here, it's $5. 391 00:35:48,233 --> 00:35:49,408 - $5? - Yeah. 392 00:35:49,451 --> 00:35:50,931 - This is $5 here. - Max. 393 00:35:50,974 --> 00:35:55,240 - So $5 here, and in China, 200 bucks? - Yeah. 394 00:35:55,283 --> 00:35:58,330 A pound of the little ones, it's 50 cents. 395 00:35:58,373 --> 00:36:00,245 - 50 cents? - Here in... 396 00:36:21,091 --> 00:36:22,484 Baby hammerheads. 397 00:36:36,019 --> 00:36:37,238 As we have learned, 398 00:36:37,282 --> 00:36:39,893 there has been two confiscations. 399 00:36:39,936 --> 00:36:42,200 I checked the confiscations. 400 00:36:42,243 --> 00:36:44,114 Why do they keep the fins here? 401 00:36:44,158 --> 00:36:48,031 Because this is the coast and ocean department 402 00:36:48,075 --> 00:36:50,773 of the environment ministry. 403 00:36:50,817 --> 00:36:52,427 Okay. 404 00:36:52,471 --> 00:36:54,342 And it's in their custody. 405 00:37:06,963 --> 00:37:09,966 We're here in a parking lot in Panama City 406 00:37:10,010 --> 00:37:11,838 with hundreds of thousands of dollars of shark fins 407 00:37:11,881 --> 00:37:15,102 confiscated from people that were trying to check these into airlines 408 00:37:15,145 --> 00:37:16,669 and fly them to Asia. 409 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,471 This is a seizure of 800 pounds of shark fins in Panama 410 00:37:36,515 --> 00:37:40,388 representing $300,000 in shark fins. 411 00:37:40,432 --> 00:37:43,739 Uh, many of which are illegal and on the endangered species list, 412 00:37:43,783 --> 00:37:46,481 including the scalloped hammerhead shark, our favorite species. 413 00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:07,067 These are all Scalloped hammerheads? 414 00:38:07,110 --> 00:38:09,548 Yup. In essence, they should. 415 00:38:10,549 --> 00:38:12,464 They are huge hammerheads. 416 00:38:20,907 --> 00:38:22,865 And there's 40,000 fins here? 417 00:38:22,909 --> 00:38:27,087 38,868. 418 00:38:27,957 --> 00:38:29,307 Oh, my God. 419 00:38:37,358 --> 00:38:41,101 So we've seen many different shark species, 420 00:38:41,144 --> 00:38:43,625 um, of many different sizes. 421 00:38:43,669 --> 00:38:46,498 Among these, probably the largest hammerhead fins 422 00:38:46,541 --> 00:38:48,413 that, at least, I have seen. 423 00:38:51,677 --> 00:38:54,680 So, the newborns, the lighter ones. 424 00:38:54,723 --> 00:38:56,551 They seem to really get a little bit depressed 425 00:38:56,595 --> 00:38:59,337 when they see these little, small... 426 00:39:29,715 --> 00:39:33,240 - Just the tip of the iceberg. - Yeah. 427 00:39:57,482 --> 00:39:59,440 This is a lot of shark fins. 428 00:39:59,484 --> 00:40:02,661 Yeah, I've never seen something like that before. 429 00:40:22,985 --> 00:40:24,770 When we started making Sharkwater, 430 00:40:24,813 --> 00:40:27,512 there were four countries that have banned shark finning. 431 00:40:29,252 --> 00:40:32,691 When we were finished, there were 16 countries that have banned shark finning. 432 00:40:32,734 --> 00:40:34,954 Now, there's more than 90 countries around the world 433 00:40:34,997 --> 00:40:36,782 that have banned the process of finning, 434 00:40:36,825 --> 00:40:39,480 but none of them have banned the importation of fins, 435 00:40:39,524 --> 00:40:41,482 which means you can fin as many sharks as you want 436 00:40:41,526 --> 00:40:43,484 as long as you put the fins on a shipping boat 437 00:40:43,528 --> 00:40:45,791 before you bring them into port, not a fishing boat, 438 00:40:47,662 --> 00:40:49,316 which is a massive loophole. 439 00:40:57,455 --> 00:40:59,761 So those are reefer containers 440 00:40:59,805 --> 00:41:03,461 that Rob's identified as being full of frozen shark. 441 00:41:16,648 --> 00:41:18,258 Think Rob's gonna get pinched? 442 00:41:18,301 --> 00:41:20,652 That guy's obviously playing close to security, right? 443 00:41:22,088 --> 00:41:23,393 Yeah. 444 00:41:23,437 --> 00:41:24,917 I'm a little bit surprised he is. 445 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,310 Yeah, he is. He's not afraid of anything. 446 00:41:35,884 --> 00:41:37,233 Holy crap. 447 00:41:38,757 --> 00:41:40,019 That's a fin. 448 00:41:40,062 --> 00:41:41,803 Just laying on the wharf. 449 00:41:41,847 --> 00:41:44,414 So we're all shark biologists here. Any idea what species? 450 00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,856 Not shark would be the guess. 451 00:41:50,899 --> 00:41:52,466 Oh, God. Holy... 452 00:41:54,599 --> 00:41:56,949 Yeah, that's not blue shark, Brother. 453 00:41:56,992 --> 00:41:59,560 No, that's not a blue. We've seen plenty of their fins. 454 00:41:59,604 --> 00:42:00,735 What do you think? 455 00:42:00,779 --> 00:42:02,911 That's a dorsal from something, I'd say. 456 00:42:06,088 --> 00:42:07,394 What's this? 457 00:42:08,613 --> 00:42:09,962 Blue shark tags. 458 00:42:10,005 --> 00:42:12,355 Tiburon azul, yeah. 459 00:42:12,399 --> 00:42:15,576 Stating that blue sharks that were landed here were caught in Spain. 460 00:42:15,620 --> 00:42:16,925 Oh, creepy. 461 00:42:16,969 --> 00:42:18,448 We're nowhere near Spain. 462 00:42:21,016 --> 00:42:23,628 So, apparently, they're not really trying to hide it. 463 00:42:33,159 --> 00:42:34,552 Does this shit make you nervous? 464 00:42:36,728 --> 00:42:37,816 No. 465 00:42:44,126 --> 00:42:45,519 What's happening? 466 00:43:00,839 --> 00:43:02,405 Where's the Japanese boat? 467 00:43:02,449 --> 00:43:03,581 Right there. 468 00:43:06,105 --> 00:43:08,020 And you can see the trans-shipping boat. 469 00:43:28,301 --> 00:43:30,085 They're right now with each other, 470 00:43:30,129 --> 00:43:34,046 and the freezer container ship has got a crane 471 00:43:34,089 --> 00:43:36,396 over top of the Japanese boat right now. 472 00:43:42,315 --> 00:43:44,796 Oh, shit, dude. They're unloading right now. 473 00:43:46,580 --> 00:43:49,539 At the end of the dock, they're unloading blue sharks. 474 00:43:49,583 --> 00:43:52,325 Fuck, what are these boats? There's tons of them. 475 00:43:54,936 --> 00:43:56,982 A car has pulled up behind ours, 476 00:43:57,025 --> 00:43:59,375 just randomly beside us. 477 00:44:00,202 --> 00:44:02,117 He looks Costa Rican. 478 00:44:02,161 --> 00:44:03,510 Oh, great. 479 00:45:38,300 --> 00:45:41,260 Hello. Hi, nice to meet you. What's your name? 480 00:45:41,303 --> 00:45:42,957 - Roden. - Roden. 481 00:46:08,853 --> 00:46:10,376 - Slippery. - Slippery. 482 00:46:18,427 --> 00:46:19,777 Wow. 483 00:46:20,821 --> 00:46:22,649 So much money. 484 00:46:22,692 --> 00:46:25,347 Is this full or it will be all the way full? 485 00:46:25,391 --> 00:46:26,653 All the way full. 486 00:46:26,696 --> 00:46:27,959 All the way. Wow. 487 00:46:36,097 --> 00:46:39,318 They're all big blue sharks in that container. 488 00:46:39,361 --> 00:46:43,017 Blue sharks are cute, they're dopey, big eyes. 489 00:46:43,061 --> 00:46:45,106 They don't really ever bite people. 490 00:46:48,980 --> 00:46:51,504 They're loading the shipping container 491 00:46:51,547 --> 00:46:55,203 full of tens of thousands of pounds of blue sharks 492 00:46:55,247 --> 00:46:59,338 onto a shipping boat to leave the country. 493 00:47:02,471 --> 00:47:04,822 The word is out around the world, that sharks mean money. 494 00:47:29,368 --> 00:47:31,544 You know, we spent four years, 15 countries, 495 00:47:31,587 --> 00:47:34,590 trying to figure out what the biggest environmental issues were out there, 496 00:47:34,634 --> 00:47:37,942 only to discover that one of the biggest destructors of our life support system 497 00:47:37,985 --> 00:47:39,639 is in our own backyard. 498 00:49:13,298 --> 00:49:15,865 I think the biggest issue we have on the planet right now 499 00:49:15,909 --> 00:49:19,043 aside from the environment, is our lack of awareness of what's going on. 500 00:49:21,523 --> 00:49:24,700 We don't know about our individual actions, about our consumption, 501 00:49:24,744 --> 00:49:26,180 about our government and corporations 502 00:49:26,224 --> 00:49:27,877 destroying our life support system. 503 00:49:30,054 --> 00:49:32,317 If we did, our morals would engage, 504 00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,362 and we'd be guided to a world that works. 505 00:49:35,494 --> 00:49:37,583 We'd hold our friends and our family, 506 00:49:37,626 --> 00:49:39,324 and our governments accountable for this stuff. 507 00:49:39,367 --> 00:49:41,021 We just don't know what's going on. 508 00:50:01,650 --> 00:50:03,522 It's 3:00 in the morning. 509 00:50:34,988 --> 00:50:36,729 My parents were here all the time, yeah. 510 00:50:39,558 --> 00:50:44,041 What I've always told them, I just have this belief that I'm gonna be okay, 511 00:50:44,084 --> 00:50:45,912 and I'm sure I'm gonna be okay. 512 00:50:50,917 --> 00:50:53,572 I mean, I had times that I almost died and ended up okay, 513 00:50:53,615 --> 00:50:56,749 and sort of reinforce that belief that I'm gonna be okay. 514 00:51:01,667 --> 00:51:03,451 I know exactly how I'm gonna die, 515 00:51:03,495 --> 00:51:04,844 when I'm gonna die. 516 00:51:12,547 --> 00:51:14,375 Uh, it's sunrise, 517 00:51:14,419 --> 00:51:18,423 and we're about to jump in the water in Santa Monica Bay, 518 00:51:18,466 --> 00:51:21,252 on the other side of Catalina Island... 519 00:51:21,295 --> 00:51:24,820 To go see what is caught in drift nets, 520 00:51:24,864 --> 00:51:27,040 nets that are a mile long, 521 00:51:27,084 --> 00:51:28,911 that just hang as a curtain at night 522 00:51:28,955 --> 00:51:31,566 and catch anything that swims into it. 523 00:51:31,610 --> 00:51:33,786 It's a hugely destructive method of fishing 524 00:51:33,829 --> 00:51:37,572 that kills dolphins, whales, turtles, sharks, 525 00:51:37,616 --> 00:51:39,139 and all sorts of things under 526 00:51:39,183 --> 00:51:42,360 the guise of catching swordfish. 527 00:51:42,403 --> 00:51:46,929 So, knowing how we've already so decimated the oceans, 528 00:51:46,973 --> 00:51:49,323 this method of fishing should not be happening, 529 00:51:49,367 --> 00:51:52,892 and it definitely shouldn't be happening in Los Angeles. 530 00:51:52,935 --> 00:51:55,677 The only reason it's happening is 'cause people don't see it. 531 00:51:55,721 --> 00:51:57,521 They don't know what's happening here. 532 00:51:58,202 --> 00:51:59,768 And we're gonna change that. 533 00:52:31,452 --> 00:52:33,411 Some fisheries will waste 85% 534 00:52:33,454 --> 00:52:35,454 of what they bring to the surface as bycatch. 535 00:52:38,764 --> 00:52:43,595 Right now, we're wasting 54 billions pounds of dead fish every year 536 00:52:43,638 --> 00:52:46,554 that's brought out of the ocean and killed and thrown back 537 00:52:46,598 --> 00:52:48,643 because it wasn't our target fish. 538 00:52:52,517 --> 00:52:54,214 We wanted the more expensive ones. 539 00:52:54,258 --> 00:52:56,912 We threw back all these amazing animals. 540 00:53:24,113 --> 00:53:25,593 Come on, let's go. 541 00:53:25,637 --> 00:53:27,421 - Are they shooting? - Yeah, yes. 542 00:53:27,465 --> 00:53:28,509 Let's go! 543 00:53:36,213 --> 00:53:37,910 Let's go! Go, go, go! 544 00:53:45,744 --> 00:53:48,007 So we just filmed a thresher shark and a blue shark 545 00:53:48,050 --> 00:53:49,661 on a drift gill net 546 00:53:49,704 --> 00:53:51,184 right outside of Los Angeles. 547 00:53:52,490 --> 00:53:55,144 And while we were doing that, 548 00:53:55,188 --> 00:53:57,973 all of a sudden, the boat was immediately on top of us. 549 00:53:58,017 --> 00:54:00,889 They were firing shots at you guys on the boat. 550 00:54:00,933 --> 00:54:03,718 Um, both the blue shark and the thresher shark were still alive, 551 00:54:03,762 --> 00:54:07,461 so you can see their mouths opening and closing and then struggling, 552 00:54:07,505 --> 00:54:11,683 and the blue shark had the mesh caught in its mouth. 553 00:54:11,726 --> 00:54:16,035 And the thresher shark, it was mangled, all messed up 554 00:54:16,078 --> 00:54:17,906 from thrashing around within the net. 555 00:54:18,777 --> 00:54:20,518 Really sad to see 556 00:54:20,561 --> 00:54:23,434 an endangered majestic superpredator 557 00:54:23,477 --> 00:54:26,741 stuck in a primitive fishing method 558 00:54:26,785 --> 00:54:28,830 in the town that I'm living in. 559 00:54:28,874 --> 00:54:31,311 It's crazy. 560 00:54:31,355 --> 00:54:33,922 - How do you feel? - I don't feel good. 561 00:54:36,011 --> 00:54:39,667 It's super emotional, it was really hard to watch that thresher just dying. 562 00:54:41,234 --> 00:54:42,714 But we're gonna stop this. 563 00:54:48,241 --> 00:54:51,244 That was the last time Rob and I went diving together 564 00:54:51,288 --> 00:54:52,724 in our own backyard. 565 00:55:04,518 --> 00:55:05,606 Sure. 566 00:55:07,260 --> 00:55:09,262 Make sure it's fresh. 567 00:55:09,306 --> 00:55:11,482 Hey guys, this is Ashley, how can I help you? 568 00:55:11,525 --> 00:55:14,223 Yeah. Hey, I was wondering, do you guys have any sharks in stock? 569 00:55:26,105 --> 00:55:29,369 So they could recommend going to this one over this one? 570 00:55:33,199 --> 00:55:35,680 Could you tell me what kind of shark you have? 571 00:55:36,637 --> 00:55:38,291 Black-eyed shark. 572 00:55:39,945 --> 00:55:43,165 I am just curious as to what you might have in stock for shark. 573 00:55:46,647 --> 00:55:50,216 Yeah, hey, I was wondering what sharks you guys have in stock. 574 00:55:50,259 --> 00:55:52,914 Awesome. And it's fresh-caught daily in this time of year, right? 575 00:55:54,873 --> 00:55:56,875 All right. Thanks a lot. 576 00:55:56,918 --> 00:55:58,529 All right we'll be by in a bit. Bye. 577 00:56:01,793 --> 00:56:03,795 I'm wondering if anybody back there knows 578 00:56:03,838 --> 00:56:05,405 what this species of shark is. 579 00:56:37,002 --> 00:56:38,743 Yeah, it's a wild shark. 580 00:57:00,373 --> 00:57:02,549 Hi, can I have one of your vegan meals, please? 581 00:57:05,770 --> 00:57:08,250 Thank you, thank you. Bye. 582 00:57:08,294 --> 00:57:10,470 Do you know what this is? 583 00:57:10,514 --> 00:57:11,993 Do you know what swai is? 584 00:57:12,037 --> 00:57:13,604 What the heck is swai? 585 00:57:16,476 --> 00:57:17,999 Iridescent shark. 586 00:57:20,959 --> 00:57:22,874 What do you have that's got fish in it? 587 00:57:24,484 --> 00:57:27,400 It's Alaskan Pollock. 588 00:57:27,444 --> 00:57:29,097 Alaskan Pollock. 589 00:57:29,141 --> 00:57:31,360 - That's in a box. - In a box, okay. 590 00:58:03,654 --> 00:58:07,440 Okay, we are in Florida, 591 00:58:07,484 --> 00:58:09,921 and we just bought a bunch of pet food, 592 00:58:11,139 --> 00:58:14,708 and fast food, and fish products, 593 00:58:14,752 --> 00:58:17,929 and we're gonna test them to see if there's shark in them. 594 00:58:36,730 --> 00:58:38,166 We're right now at FIU. 595 00:58:38,210 --> 00:58:39,864 Florida International University. 596 00:58:41,126 --> 00:58:42,780 My name is Diego Cardenosa, 597 00:58:42,823 --> 00:58:46,218 I'm a PhD student from Stony Brook University in New York. 598 00:58:48,394 --> 00:58:50,570 We collect shark fin samples 599 00:58:50,614 --> 00:58:52,572 and we do generic bar coding on them, 600 00:58:52,616 --> 00:58:55,140 so we assess the composition 601 00:58:55,183 --> 00:58:58,317 and the proportion of species in the shark fin trade. 602 00:58:59,405 --> 00:59:01,320 All right. Let's do this. 603 00:59:01,363 --> 00:59:02,539 Okay. 604 00:59:05,063 --> 00:59:08,501 So, right now, we're testing your samples of pet food, 605 00:59:08,545 --> 00:59:13,375 um, some shark fillet purchased in supermarkets, 606 00:59:13,419 --> 00:59:15,639 um, some tuna salad. 607 00:59:15,682 --> 00:59:21,906 So the idea's to try to see if we can find any trace of shark DNA in those products, 608 00:59:21,949 --> 00:59:26,345 um, and to identify, if there's any shark DNA in those products, 609 00:59:26,388 --> 00:59:30,088 try to identify it at least to a species or genus level. 610 00:59:30,131 --> 00:59:33,352 So basically, what this does, is once we put it in the thermocycler, 611 00:59:33,395 --> 00:59:37,095 - it will boil to 100 degrees. - Okay. 612 00:59:37,138 --> 00:59:41,142 So that destroys the tissue, or whatever the sample is, 613 00:59:41,186 --> 00:59:44,624 - and breaks the cell open. - Yeah. 614 00:59:44,668 --> 00:59:47,584 And captures everything that is not DNA 615 00:59:47,627 --> 00:59:50,630 and leaves you, like, a clear... 616 00:59:50,674 --> 00:59:54,068 A clear, um, liquid, let's say, with the DNA. 617 00:59:54,112 --> 00:59:55,679 This is the one you're gonna use for it, 618 00:59:55,722 --> 00:59:57,550 for your PCR afterwards. 619 00:59:57,594 --> 00:59:58,638 Okay. 620 00:59:58,682 --> 01:00:01,162 If there's a shark DNA in this thing, 621 01:00:01,206 --> 01:00:02,816 - it will let us know. - Yeah. 622 01:00:05,950 --> 01:00:10,128 Now just mixing a little bit of, uh, shark DNA cocktail. 623 01:00:14,523 --> 01:00:18,136 33% of the pet food product tested positive for shark DNA, 624 01:00:18,179 --> 01:00:20,007 including blacktip and mako shark, 625 01:00:20,051 --> 01:00:24,316 which is a vulnerable species known for very high mercury levels. 626 01:00:24,359 --> 01:00:27,493 We also found traces of blacktips, scalloped hammerheads, 627 01:00:27,536 --> 01:00:31,018 milk and blue shark DNA in the beauty care products we tested. 628 01:00:43,161 --> 01:00:44,510 Fishing study have showed 629 01:00:44,553 --> 01:00:45,812 that shark populations have dropped 630 01:00:45,816 --> 01:00:49,080 an estimated 90% in the last 30 years. 631 01:00:49,123 --> 01:00:51,952 100 million sharks get killed every year, and nobody notices. 632 01:00:53,301 --> 01:00:54,694 It is astronomical. 633 01:00:59,525 --> 01:01:01,745 And this is a huge consumer awareness issue 634 01:01:01,788 --> 01:01:03,485 that can be fought and can be won. 635 01:01:09,796 --> 01:01:12,146 We're not just killing sharks for shark fin soup, 636 01:01:12,190 --> 01:01:16,107 we're killing sharks for a myriad of crazy reasons. 637 01:01:16,150 --> 01:01:19,632 Sharks are now being killed and renamed, and fed to us, 638 01:01:19,676 --> 01:01:21,721 things like rock salmon and flake, 639 01:01:21,765 --> 01:01:23,723 so we don't know we're eating shark. 640 01:01:23,767 --> 01:01:26,334 Sharks are also turning up in pet food, 641 01:01:26,378 --> 01:01:30,599 live stock feed, fertilizer, and even in cosmetics. 642 01:01:30,643 --> 01:01:34,386 We're smearing endangered superpredators on our faces without knowing it. 643 01:01:50,054 --> 01:01:51,708 So it's important for all of us, 644 01:01:51,751 --> 01:01:54,232 if we want to ensure a healthy environment into the future, 645 01:01:54,275 --> 01:01:56,408 to make sure that things we buy, 646 01:01:56,451 --> 01:01:59,411 the foods we buy, the cosmetics, are shark-free. 647 01:02:03,110 --> 01:02:04,938 Insist in a world that's shark-free, 648 01:02:04,982 --> 01:02:07,767 and insist that your cosmetics, your fertilizers, 649 01:02:07,811 --> 01:02:09,595 your pet food, your livestock feed, 650 01:02:09,638 --> 01:02:11,902 doesn't contain shark or shark parts. 651 01:03:51,131 --> 01:03:52,611 These are rebreathers. 652 01:03:52,654 --> 01:03:54,265 They recirculate the air that you breathe 653 01:03:54,308 --> 01:03:56,876 and inject the quantity of gasses that you want, 654 01:03:56,920 --> 01:03:58,660 depending on the depth that you're going to. 655 01:03:58,704 --> 01:04:00,924 In that way, you get a lot closer to fish and sharks 656 01:04:00,967 --> 01:04:02,577 because you don't make bubbles, 657 01:04:02,621 --> 01:04:05,102 which are very scary for animals like that. 658 01:04:05,145 --> 01:04:06,843 Uh, and you could stay a lot longer. 659 01:04:06,886 --> 01:04:09,976 You could stay down for six hours almost. 660 01:04:10,020 --> 01:04:12,457 As long as you want or need to. 661 01:04:12,500 --> 01:04:15,547 So we're gonna use this new technology to go deeper than we've ever been before 662 01:04:15,590 --> 01:04:19,203 to film a creature that people have rarely seen in the wild, 663 01:04:19,246 --> 01:04:22,032 the sawfish, one of the most endangered sharks in the world. 664 01:04:23,163 --> 01:04:26,253 So, I'm... I'm gonna save a splash. 665 01:04:26,297 --> 01:04:28,777 Still sitting 46 feet off my mark, 666 01:04:28,821 --> 01:04:31,868 so I think we're secure as I can get us. 667 01:04:32,738 --> 01:04:34,000 Let's do it. 668 01:07:47,933 --> 01:07:49,891 Mayday, mayday, mayday. 669 01:07:52,677 --> 01:07:54,374 This is United States Coast Guard 670 01:07:54,418 --> 01:07:56,376 communication station sector key west. 671 01:07:56,420 --> 01:07:58,639 We request a boat. We need assistance. Over. 672 01:08:01,164 --> 01:08:03,905 Watch standers at Sector Key West Command Center 673 01:08:03,949 --> 01:08:06,560 received a report of a missing diver. 674 01:08:06,604 --> 01:08:09,563 The diver is identified as 37-year-old Robert Stewart 675 01:08:09,607 --> 01:08:11,304 from Toronto, Canada. 676 01:08:11,348 --> 01:08:13,350 Canadian filmmaker has gone missing 677 01:08:13,393 --> 01:08:15,265 while diving in Florida. 678 01:08:15,308 --> 01:08:17,441 The US Coast Guard is searching for Rob Stewart right now 679 01:08:17,484 --> 01:08:19,878 off the coast of the... 680 01:08:19,921 --> 01:08:21,967 Florida Keys. The US Coast Guard tells us they're using a helicopter, 681 01:08:22,010 --> 01:08:23,969 a boat, a team of divers, 682 01:08:24,012 --> 01:08:26,754 and in the last hour, they've just added a plane to that search. 683 01:08:26,798 --> 01:08:28,843 The Coast Guard says... 684 01:08:28,887 --> 01:08:30,193 Stewart and four others were diving into Florida Keys 685 01:08:30,236 --> 01:08:31,803 off the coast of Islamorada. 686 01:08:31,846 --> 01:08:33,500 As their dive came to an end, 687 01:08:33,544 --> 01:08:36,329 he resurfaced and signaled that he was fine. 688 01:08:38,201 --> 01:08:40,420 Stewart disappeared while the boat crew attended 689 01:08:40,464 --> 01:08:42,118 to his instructor 690 01:08:42,161 --> 01:08:44,381 who had exited the water but then collapsed on deck. 691 01:08:44,424 --> 01:08:47,862 The friend said that he jumped in, but couldn't find him. 692 01:08:47,906 --> 01:08:50,430 He wasn't seen again. 693 01:08:50,474 --> 01:08:53,041 Three days later, the search continues, 694 01:08:53,085 --> 01:08:57,872 including hundreds of volunteers in small craft, helicopters and airplanes. 695 01:08:57,916 --> 01:09:01,485 His worried parents pray that he's found alive. 696 01:09:01,528 --> 01:09:03,182 It doesn't look great. 697 01:09:03,226 --> 01:09:06,794 But we've got... He's the kind of person that would survive. 698 01:09:06,838 --> 01:09:08,970 He's super fit and he's a great swimmer. 699 01:09:09,014 --> 01:09:10,885 And he's done thousands of dives. 700 01:09:17,588 --> 01:09:19,894 T he body of missing Toronto filmmaker, Rob Stewart, 701 01:09:19,938 --> 01:09:23,159 has been found in the waters off of Florida Keys. 702 01:09:23,202 --> 01:09:26,336 Tributes have been paid to the Canadian filmmaker and campaigner, 703 01:09:26,379 --> 01:09:29,469 Rob Stewart, who's died while diving off Florida. 704 01:09:29,513 --> 01:09:31,558 Rob Stewart won many awards for... 705 01:09:45,616 --> 01:09:47,487 Deep sadness in Toronto today 706 01:09:47,531 --> 01:09:49,489 at the funeral of Robert Stewart, 707 01:09:49,533 --> 01:09:53,319 an acclaimed filmmaker and ocean conservationist who died at sea. 708 01:09:53,363 --> 01:09:55,452 Stewart's known worldwide for... 709 01:09:55,495 --> 01:09:59,151 The family has received messages of support from across the world. 710 01:09:59,195 --> 01:10:03,329 Family and friends say Stewart's job is not done yet. 711 01:10:03,373 --> 01:10:06,724 We should be so thankful that in this little galaxy of stars 712 01:10:06,767 --> 01:10:08,508 that our life is and our friends are, 713 01:10:08,552 --> 01:10:12,643 that we had a son like Rob at the center of it. 714 01:10:12,686 --> 01:10:15,385 I think his real legacy will be all of these other people 715 01:10:15,428 --> 01:10:18,126 that he inspired who will carry his work forward. 716 01:10:28,485 --> 01:10:29,921 It was an amazing journey. 717 01:10:34,317 --> 01:10:36,841 It was very much a learning process for me 718 01:10:36,884 --> 01:10:39,017 all the way along. 719 01:10:39,060 --> 01:10:42,499 Because in the beginning, it was sort of, like, "What? We're all gonna die?" 720 01:10:42,542 --> 01:10:44,762 All the way through, you know, trying to figure out, 721 01:10:44,805 --> 01:10:46,720 you know, how we're gonna save ourselves. 722 01:10:50,420 --> 01:10:52,683 But seeing all the destruction that humans had wrought 723 01:10:52,726 --> 01:10:56,817 on ecosystems and species and the lack of care that was coming, 724 01:10:56,861 --> 01:11:01,213 I sort of developed a distrust and dislike of humanity at times. 725 01:11:06,174 --> 01:11:07,741 And then, through making this movie 726 01:11:07,785 --> 01:11:10,396 trying to educate humanity about what's happening to sharks 727 01:11:10,440 --> 01:11:12,746 and seeing them take that cause and fight for it, 728 01:11:12,790 --> 01:11:13,921 particularly kids, 729 01:11:13,965 --> 01:11:16,881 it really instilled a lot more hope, 730 01:11:16,924 --> 01:11:19,492 and made me love humanity a lot more than I could before. 731 01:11:24,367 --> 01:11:26,804 We still have a bright future if we want it, 732 01:11:26,847 --> 01:11:29,154 but we've got to do something now. 733 01:13:51,383 --> 01:13:54,604 I'm in to save the turtle! Whoo! 734 01:14:20,847 --> 01:14:24,764 I'm standing in front of Darwin's Arch at Darwin's Island. 735 01:14:24,808 --> 01:14:26,853 This is Darwin's Arch, right? 736 01:14:26,897 --> 01:14:28,681 And Darwin Island? 737 01:14:28,725 --> 01:14:31,815 Now this is the mecca of diving... 738 01:14:33,033 --> 01:14:34,165 I lost it. 739 01:14:35,253 --> 01:14:36,602 Like I ever had it. 740 01:14:39,562 --> 01:14:42,521 When I started out, I wanted to bring people closer to sharks 741 01:14:42,565 --> 01:14:44,349 than they'd ever been before, 742 01:14:44,392 --> 01:14:46,569 so that, you know, they could actually see an interaction to sharks 743 01:14:46,612 --> 01:14:49,212 they've never seen before and truly understand them. 744 01:14:51,574 --> 01:14:53,619 'Cause when elephant falls for ivory in Africa 745 01:14:53,663 --> 01:14:55,534 and the world goes crazy. 746 01:14:55,578 --> 01:14:57,405 Elephants kill 200 people a year. 747 01:14:57,449 --> 01:14:59,886 Sharks kill five people a year. 748 01:14:59,930 --> 01:15:02,236 We kill 100 million of them, and nobody notices. 749 01:15:05,588 --> 01:15:08,025 The reality behind sharks is that they're not predators of people. 750 01:15:08,068 --> 01:15:09,809 If sharks, you know, ate people, 751 01:15:09,853 --> 01:15:11,768 the oceans would be a really dangerous place, 752 01:15:11,811 --> 01:15:14,031 and people would be getting eaten every day. But they're not. 753 01:15:14,074 --> 01:15:17,904 I think what's unfair and irresponsible is wiping out 90% 754 01:15:17,948 --> 01:15:20,124 of the most important longest-lasting predator the planet has 755 01:15:20,167 --> 01:15:21,299 for the sake of soup. 756 01:15:23,562 --> 01:15:25,390 Thank you, everyone, 757 01:15:25,433 --> 01:15:28,698 for being part of the largest rally for climate change in history. 758 01:15:29,612 --> 01:15:31,178 This cannot end today. 759 01:15:31,222 --> 01:15:32,919 This energy is amazing, 760 01:15:32,963 --> 01:15:34,965 and you've got to bring it forth into everything that you do. 761 01:15:35,008 --> 01:15:37,054 That's nothing more important than conservation 762 01:15:37,097 --> 01:15:39,186 because conservation is the preservation 763 01:15:39,230 --> 01:15:41,058 of human life on Earth. 764 01:15:44,148 --> 01:15:47,194 People don't understand how ecosystems work because they never taught it. 765 01:15:47,238 --> 01:15:48,848 I mean, if you look at the education system, 766 01:15:48,892 --> 01:15:50,502 why are taught Shakespeare and Algebra 767 01:15:50,546 --> 01:15:52,548 before we're taught conservation 768 01:15:52,591 --> 01:15:54,027 or we're taught how to survive on the planet? 769 01:15:54,071 --> 01:15:56,073 Especially if we know by mid-century 770 01:15:56,116 --> 01:15:58,249 that our survival is very much in jeopardy. 771 01:16:00,773 --> 01:16:01,948 High-five. 772 01:16:01,992 --> 01:16:03,515 This stuff's important. 773 01:16:03,559 --> 01:16:06,387 We depend on the oceans to survive. We depend on life. 774 01:16:06,431 --> 01:16:09,956 It's life that gives us our food, our water and our air. 775 01:16:14,395 --> 01:16:15,875 This is it. This is it. 776 01:16:15,919 --> 01:16:18,748 This is the generation. This is the task of your time. 777 01:16:18,791 --> 01:16:21,838 Are we gonna save the ecosystems we depend on for survival 778 01:16:21,881 --> 01:16:23,796 or are we gonna live in lack and starvation 779 01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:26,843 and crisis and fight each other over what's left? 780 01:16:26,886 --> 01:16:30,063 I believe entirely that we are all morally bound together, 781 01:16:30,107 --> 01:16:32,196 and that if we are made aware of these issues, 782 01:16:32,239 --> 01:16:34,111 we'll make different decisions. 783 01:16:34,154 --> 01:16:35,765 Be conscious of what you eat, 784 01:16:35,808 --> 01:16:38,811 where you put your garbage, and how you live your life. 785 01:16:38,855 --> 01:16:41,118 Nothing is more important than this. 786 01:16:41,161 --> 01:16:43,163 There's never been an issue this big, 787 01:16:43,207 --> 01:16:45,525 and there's never been an issue that needs your involvement more than this. 788 01:16:45,557 --> 01:16:46,993 So, everybody, thank you. 789 01:16:51,389 --> 01:16:53,652 You've got an opportunity to become a hero. 790 01:16:53,696 --> 01:16:54,697 To be a hero.