The Great Barrier Reef | movie | 2017 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The well-known actress and world champion in freediving, Marina Kazankova, presents the most beautiful and wonderful ree | dG1fUDdRNDNXTTJPV2c

Transcript

00:00 (whooshing)

00:01 We have lost about half the coral colonies

00:04 of the Great Barrier Reef in the last two years alone.

00:08 Dr. Charlie Varon is the world's leading expert

00:10 on the Great Barrier Reef.

00:12 He's been studying it his entire career.

00:15 There are about 340 species of coral

00:18 on the Great Barrier Reef.

00:19 For years, Varon has been warning people

00:21 that global warming would eventually destroy the reef.

00:25 His worst fears came true in 2016,

00:28 when 30% of the reef was decimated

00:30 by warmer water temperatures.

00:33 It happened again this year,

00:34 when another 20% was bleached.

00:37 The first thing you notice is lack of color.

00:39 Everything goes white,

00:41 and then if you stick around for a couple of weeks

00:43 or months, the algae starts growing on the coral,

00:46 and it's just covered with slime.

00:48 To view the damage firsthand,

00:50 we traveled with Dr. Varon 20 miles out

00:53 to a section of the reef called Turtle Bay.

00:57 They call Varon the godfather of coral,

01:00 because he knows every nook and cranny of the reef.

01:02 From our boat, we spoke with him as he went below

01:07 to assess what had become of his life's work.

01:25 Charlie, is there a correlation between the condition

01:28 of any particular coral and the number of fish around it?

01:32 - Yeah.

01:33 Now if this was alive, this would have been crawling

01:36 with fish, and I can't see a single fish here.

01:41 (upbeat music)

01:43 (upbeat music)

01:46 (upbeat music)

01:49 [Music]