鲨鱼海洋：灭绝 Sharkwater Extinction(2018)(EN)Subtitles
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1 00:00:08 [WAVES SPLASHING]
2 00:00:16 [SERENE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]
3 00:01:05 ROB STEWART: I got lost in the ocean.
4 00:01:09 I was underwater.
5 00:01:11 Took a wrong turn, got stuck in some currents.
6 00:01:13 By the time I surfaced, I was a mile and a half
7 00:01:15 away from where I should've been.
8 00:01:19 I thought I was gonna die.
9 00:01:27 The only option I had was to not give up.
10 00:01:39 That was very much a metaphor for what we're going through now.
11 00:01:45 'Cause if you give up, 100% you're dead.
12 00:01:50 I think we're in that situation right now.
13 00:01:52 You can't give up.
14 00:02:23 ROB: So we just snuck into Costa Rica.
15 00:02:27 The first time since 2002, 14 years ago,
16 00:02:32 to check out what's going on with the fin industry here
17 00:02:36 and what we might be able to do about it.
18 00:02:38 And we had a local contact set up to do interviews for us.
19 00:02:42 So, the word is already in the Costa Rican government now that...
20 00:02:48 I'm here and that Sharkwateris here,
21 00:02:50 and we're making Sharkwater 2.
22 00:02:52 We're not here without a filming permit, we already know the country.
23 00:02:56 So we gotta watch our back.
24 00:03:16 ROB: 15 years ago,
25 00:03:18 I began a quest to save sharks from shark fin soup,
26 00:03:22 a Chinese delicacy.
27 00:03:27 Millions of sharks were being finned,
28 00:03:29 where they were pulled out of the water, their fins were cut off,
29 00:03:32 and were thrown back into the oceans to die,
30 00:03:36 destroying the populations of some of the most important predators
31 00:03:40 the planet has ever had.
32 00:03:50 And I thought that if I could change the public's view of sharks
33 00:03:53 if I could make them love these animals like I did...
34 00:03:56 See that they're beautiful and amazing and magnificent and important,
35 00:04:00 then maybe they'd wanna fight for their protection
36 00:04:02 like they fight for pandas and elephants and bears.
37 00:04:07 [SPLASHING]
38 00:04:12 Well, the movie, you know, it took me five years,
39 00:04:14 and nearly killed me half a dozen times.
40 00:04:17 [COCKS GUN]
41 00:04:20 We had to run from the country while the coast guard
42 00:04:22 was firing machine guns at us.
43 00:04:24 And it, you know, turned into this crazy story
44 00:04:27 that shows you how much money there is in the exploitation of sharks.
45 00:04:43 The film, Sharkwater,
46 00:04:45 brought the plight of sharks for shark fin soup into the spotlight,
47 00:04:48 resulting in the creation of conservation groups,
48 00:04:51 government policy changing all around the world,
49 00:04:53 and an empowered youth that knew they could change the world.
50 00:04:59 Today, shark finning is banned throughout most of the world.
51 00:05:09 But now, sharks are in more trouble than ever before.
52 00:05:14 We're killing up to 150 million sharks a year,
53 00:05:18 but scientists can only account for 70 million of those.
54 00:05:23 There are 80 million sharks every year that are getting killed,
55 00:05:27 and nobody knows why, or where those sharks are going.
56 00:05:42 ROB: And what's changed in Costa Rica in the last ten years?
57 00:05:46 RANDALL ARAUZ: Well, it's changed dramatically from Sharkwater.
58 00:05:50 We're actually turning into marine conservation leaders
59 00:05:54 in these conventions.
60 00:05:55 The Costa Rican is doing a great job.
61 00:05:57 Unfortunately, we had a new president step in,
62 00:06:00 and in the matter of a stroke of a pen,
63 00:06:03 in one year, many of these policies were reversed.
64 00:06:06 We saw Costa Rica export 900 kilos of hammerhead shark fins
65 00:06:09 against the CITES convention.
66 00:06:11 They actually did two exportations, um, to do this.
67 00:06:14 The government of Costa Rica just decided to ignore its commitments with CITES
68 00:06:18 and the international community,
69 00:06:19 and Costa Rica just decided,
70 00:06:20 "We're gonna export these hammerhead shark fins
71 00:06:22 "because they're public interest."
72 00:06:23 And they did.
73 00:06:25 [FOLK MUSIC PLAYING]
74 00:06:31 RANDALL: And they even got the president of Costa Rica
75 00:06:34 to sign a statement saying that the government was no longer going to protect sharks
76 00:06:39 in international conventions.
77 00:06:43 And that's when we really flipped,
78 00:06:45 because the work that we had done for ten years over three presidents,
79 00:06:49 in a matter of months, it's all, you know, torn to pieces.
80 00:06:52 Costa Rica's not going that way anymore.
81 00:06:55 [SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
82 00:07:05 [INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
83 00:07:08 [SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
84 00:07:56 [JOURNALISTS SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
85 00:08:01 Um, is shark finning still happening in Costa Rica?
86 00:08:04 Uh, it's happening, but without the permission
87 00:08:08 and without the support,
88 00:08:10 and without the, uh, willingness of the Costa Rican government.
89 00:08:13 Finning is happening simply because it's an illegal action.
90 00:08:16 And just as it happens with narcotrafficking
91 00:08:19 or any other action, it continues to happen,
92 00:08:22 and I regret it.
93 00:08:23 And the authorities of Costa Rica
94 00:08:25 are taking all the necessary steps to prevent it.
95 00:08:29 [JOURNALISTS CLAMORING]
96 00:08:31 REGI DOMINGO: It's always the same with them. Say one thing and do another.
97 00:08:43 ROB: We're headed to Puntarenas
98 00:08:45 because we'd figured out that if you want to bring illicit fins into Costa Rica,
99 00:08:50 all you have to do is land them in port on the weekend
100 00:08:53 when the fisheries body that looks after fish
101 00:08:57 isn't working.
102 00:08:59 So we're gonna rock up to Puntarenas, pull out our cameras,
103 00:09:01 and see if we can film anything illegal
104 00:09:04 happening on the weekends and happening without any official body watching.
105 00:09:20 [BIRDS CHIRPING]
106 00:09:28 ROB: Are you going to be your real name?
107 00:09:30 No.
108 00:09:32 I'm gonna be Laurette.
109 00:09:35 ROB: How about when they ask you for your ID?
110 00:09:38 So do you think they'd have to take my ID?
111 00:09:41 ROB: Just trying to watch your back, Regi.
112 00:09:47 ROB: People don't realize there's so much money in the trade of animals,
113 00:09:49 there's so much money in the trade of fins.
114 00:09:51 It's a billion-dollar industry.
115 00:09:53 There's multimillionaires playing mafia rings
116 00:09:56 like puppeteers trying to exploit the resource.
117 00:10:05 ROB: You've got to be kidding me.
118 00:10:07 REGI: I'm not surprised.
119 00:10:22 We're gonna meet Williams Flores,
120 00:10:24 who, when we were last in Puntarenas,
121 00:10:26 told us about these mafia warehouses
122 00:10:28 drying shark fins.
123 00:10:30 And so now we're back in Costa Rica, we're gonna go meet him
124 00:10:33 and see how the situation has changed, where they're drying fins,
125 00:10:38 and what we might be able to do
126 00:10:41 to help save sharks in Costa Rica.
127 00:10:50 - Hello. - Hi.
128 00:10:51 - How are you? - Good. Come here.
129 00:10:56 [SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
130 00:11:18 - REGI: Thanks. - MAN: That's yours.
131 00:11:20 MAN: Get a life jacket. It's better.
132 00:11:24 - For what? To look like a tourist? - To seem more tourist.
133 00:11:26 Sure. Good idea.
134 00:11:32 [WILLIAM SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
135 00:12:10 ROB: Which one is the Varadero?
136 00:12:12 BROCK CAHILL: That one, right there, Franju.
137 00:12:14 ROB: Sharks are worth an enormous amount of money,
138 00:12:16 and it's mostly for their fins.
139 00:12:18 And, you know, a single pound of fin is worth over $200 US.
140 00:12:22 So, to fishermen around the world in third-world countries,
141 00:12:25 you can pull up a shark, cut off its fins,
142 00:12:27 throw the rest of the body back, dry the fin.
143 00:12:29 You don't need refrigeration systems on your boat,
144 00:12:31 so even the most decrepit boats can go out there
145 00:12:33 and make enormous amounts of money.
146 00:12:35 And it's... Sharks are being fished everywhere.
147 00:12:40 ROB: Oh, look, he's got something.
148 00:12:41 What is it?
149 00:12:43 REGI: Looks like a hammerhead to me.
150 00:12:48 ROB: So, you wanna buy it off him?
151 00:12:50 He looks like he's interested in...
152 00:12:53 ROB: Blacktips?
153 00:12:55 REGI: Ehm, no, this is a little hammerhead.
154 00:12:59 [REGI SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
155 00:13:03 [MERCHANT SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
156 00:13:16 They have 30 of these ones.
157 00:13:19 ROB: 30, and they're little blacktips, right?
158 00:13:21 - REGI: Yeah. - ROB: Yeah. Okay.
159 00:13:24 ABRAHAM STERN: You have to be careful.
160 00:13:26 Okay.
161 00:13:27 That's a must.
162 00:13:29 You cannot go... Especially if you're gonna be shooting in Puntarenas.
163 00:13:32 You already know how dangerous it is right there.
164 00:13:35 You guys run for your life.
165 00:13:37 I remember one shooting... You were meeting,
166 00:13:40 or you went into a warehouse, I think so,
167 00:13:44 and you saw the shark fins on the roof.
168 00:13:47 And you guys were running, literally.
169 00:13:50 So we have to be careful.
170 00:13:53 Costa Rica is a good country.
171 00:13:56 Unfortunately, there's very bad layers in it.
172 00:14:01 WILL: Ready, Rob.
173 00:14:08 [DRONE WHIRRING]
174 00:14:23 [WILLIAM SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
175 00:15:13 ROB: Holy shit, there's one clear panel
176 00:15:15 and I think there's fins in it.
177 00:15:18 ROB: When we realized how much money there was in fins
178 00:15:21 and all of these operations,
179 00:15:23 and how much money was going to Costa Rica for the fin industry,
180 00:15:26 that was a major eye-opener.
181 00:15:29 ROB: Wow, that's a lot of fins.
182 00:15:32 ROB: You think of Costa Rica and you think, you know, lots of conservation happening.
183 00:15:38 You don't expect one of the most progressive countries
184 00:15:40 down there to encounter that, but we did.
185 00:15:47 [SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
186 00:16:04 REGI: We have to leave this place right now.
187 00:16:06 ROB: What's going on?
188 00:16:07 REGI: This hotel is from the owner of Mariscos Wang.
189 00:16:12 It's Diego, so it's one of the big mafia
190 00:16:15 in Puntarenas.
191 00:16:16 BROCK: That makes perfect sense.
192 00:16:18 We have been sleeping here,
193 00:16:20 so it's not nice.
194 00:16:21 You know, we've been here thus far.
195 00:16:25 WILL: Yeah, but we were flying drones off the roof yesterday.
196 00:16:28 What do you mean?
197 00:16:29 We're being a little more conspicuous today.
198 00:16:32 Taking off remote control helicopters
199 00:16:35 off the roof and flying over the ports.
200 00:16:38 So, now,
201 00:16:41 a few people have seen us do that.
202 00:16:43 REGI: I think we have to check out and go our separate ways.
203 00:16:46 For sure.
204 00:16:56 REGI: After that, I got death threats,
205 00:16:58 and I had to leave Costa Rica.
206 00:17:03 The next time I saw Rob was just before the last dive.
207 00:17:27 ROB: I was a fish nerd when I was a kid.
208 00:17:32 I was chubby, I stuttered,
209 00:17:35 and I ended up liking animals more than people.
210 00:17:46 I had a goldfish bowl, I think, from the time I was zero,
211 00:17:49 and just fell in love with fish,
212 00:17:51 and looked into that world and saw these creatures
213 00:17:53 that I didn't really understand, that could breathe water, that could fly.
214 00:18:07 I had the opportunity to go underwater
215 00:18:09 and hang out in the Caribbean as a kid.
216 00:18:15 Because I was so young, I wasn't allowed to dive.
217 00:18:17 The only way I could go down there and hang out with these fish
218 00:18:19 was holding my breath and swimming down.
219 00:18:23 And it just... It was the most magical world possible.
220 00:18:26 You know, you're in a three-dimensional world, you can fly.
221 00:18:29 And, uh, as a kid that just enthralled me.
222 00:18:43 I met my first shark when I was nine.
223 00:18:49 I saw the shark out of the corner of my eye,
224 00:18:52 and it swam in my direction.
225 00:18:58 And the second it made eye contact with me, it freaked out,
226 00:19:02 and swam the other direction.
227 00:19:20 For me, that whole experience,
228 00:19:22 five-foot Caribbean Reef shark
229 00:19:24 terrified of a nine-year-old kid,
230 00:19:27 removed all the fear I had of sharks in the ocean
231 00:19:30 and allowed me to go explore it further, fall deeper in love.
232 00:20:01 [GRUNGE MUSIC PLAYING]
233 00:20:24 ROB: And I'm here in Cat Island in the Bahamas
234 00:20:26 because one of the most amazing sharks in the world,
235 00:20:29 the oceanic whitetip shark, come here only in the month of May.
236 00:20:33 Now, the oceanic whitetip shark was once the most abundant large predator on the planet.
237 00:20:37 They were everywhere, but because they have massive fins
238 00:20:40 that are highly valued in the fin industry,
239 00:20:43 oceanic whitetip shark populations in the Atlantic and Caribbean
240 00:20:46 have dropped 99%.
241 00:20:51 When I heard these creatures were spotted in this area,
242 00:20:54 my team decided to take a chance
243 00:20:56 and see if we could capture them on film
244 00:20:58 so others could see the reality
245 00:21:00 behind what Jacques Cousteau once called,
246 00:21:02 "The most dangerous of all sharks."
247 00:21:11 Having never filmed them before, and with a serious reputation,
248 00:21:14 I'm a bit cautious as I learned to understand these sharks.
249 00:21:27 [ENCHANTING INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]
250 00:22:14 Oceanics turned out to be absolute sweethearts.
251 00:22:20 They had the most expressive and curious eyes I've seen in any shark.
252 00:22:24 And you can really feel them reading you.
253 00:22:27 They're also a little cheeky and very intelligent.
254 00:22:44 The most important thing for me when filming sharks
255 00:22:47 is to try to understand what life is like for them,
256 00:22:50 how they see the world, and what makes them special,
257 00:22:54 because my goal is to make people fall in love with sharks.
258 00:22:58 And for that, people need to see a bit of their softer side,
259 00:23:01 a bit of their intelligence,
260 00:23:03 and maybe see a bit of themselves in the sharks.
261 00:23:48 [FUNKY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]
262 00:23:55 MARK QUARTIANO: Something big today, baby. Something big.
263 00:23:58 Stand by, we're gonna hang 'em high.
264 00:24:03 I got a good feeling today, baby.
265 00:24:13 [ROB SPEAKING]
266 00:24:15 Oh, do we have to?
267 00:24:18 Well, they say 100,000, but I don't think that's true.
268 00:24:20 I say more like 50.
269 00:24:22 - ROB: 50,000? - Yeah.
270 00:24:24 ROB: What kind of shark you'd like to catch today more than any other?
271 00:24:27 MARK: Right now? Uh, I'd like to catch, uh, either a mako or a tiger.
272 00:24:32 Hammerheads are probably the most common sharks we catch out here.
273 00:24:36 [ROB SPEAKING]
274 00:24:39 No. Negative.
275 00:24:41 No, hammerheads aren't endangered.
276 00:24:43 There's plenty of them out there and we catch them every trip.
277 00:24:46 That's all Shark Weekpropaganda.
278 00:24:58 MARK: I mean, you know, you gotta put it in perspective.
279 00:25:00 I mean, this is just an animal that's on Earth
280 00:25:03 for... For what reason?
281 00:25:06 For man to eat.
282 00:25:12 I mean, sure, there's a decline in the sharks
283 00:25:14 because of the commercial guys are whacking them pretty good.
284 00:25:19 And there's a demand for them.
285 00:25:21 So, you put a trophy price on something, it's gonna die.
286 00:25:26 Simple. Show me the money.
287 00:25:38 We normally get a bite right about now.
288 00:25:42 Sometimes, you know, you're gonna wait a long time for a bite.
289 00:25:44 Like today, when there's no current.
290 00:25:46 Water's kinda dirty.
291 00:25:47 A lot of trash in the water.
292 00:25:50 And, uh, you just have to wait.
293 00:25:57 What do you think it is people like about going and fishing for sharks?
294 00:26:01 Sharks are the apex predator, you know.
295 00:26:05 They always had been and they always will be.
296 00:26:08 What was that? You got a bite there?
297 00:26:10 Watch out! Get the nose Ryan.
298 00:26:12 Getting a bite right now.
299 00:26:13 I got a bomb. I got a bite here.
300 00:26:16 He got a bite.
301 00:26:17 Take a line. Take a line. Big fish here. Big fish.
302 00:26:20 All right, get set up, guys. Get set up.
303 00:26:23 Oh, yeah. Big fish here. Whoo!
304 00:26:25 Right in his head.
305 00:26:27 Easy now, easy. Very slow is good.
306 00:26:32 Cheer up. Cheer up.
307 00:26:34 Get ready to get it here.
308 00:26:36 I am ready.
309 00:26:37 How long is this going to take?
310 00:26:39 Sometimes, they'll come right up to the boat,
311 00:26:40 you get an identification on them,
312 00:26:42 and it might be another hour after that,
313 00:26:44 it's really, really, uh, average fight
314 00:26:49 with this setup, with this type of rod and reel combination.
315 00:26:53 Average fight on your average shark,
316 00:26:56 which is a lot of different variables, obviously.
317 00:26:59 It's about half-hour or 45 minutes.
318 00:27:01 They could go a lot quicker or go a lot longer.
319 00:27:17 ROB: People tell you your whole life to be afraid of sharks.
320 00:27:21 Pretty well everything we've been receiving from the media,
321 00:27:23 from just about everybody, is that sharks are dangerous,
322 00:27:25 and they're gonna kill you and they're gonna eat you.
323 00:27:30 But the reality is totally different.
324 00:27:39 You know, they've been here for actually 400 million years.
325 00:27:45 They survived five major extinctions on Earth
326 00:27:47 that wiped out most life on the planet.
327 00:27:49 They've seen life on Earth rebuilt from scratch five times.
328 00:27:56 450 million years of shark's presence on Earth,
329 00:27:59 we've decimated them 30 years.
330 00:28:03 Shark populations dropped 90% in 30 years. 90%.
331 00:28:10 How could this be happening? How could this be happening?
332 00:28:25 [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
333 00:28:57 ROB: Sharks, in particular, a lot of them in particular,
334 00:29:01 - hammerheads seem to not survive... - MARK: After you catch 'em?
335 00:29:04 ROB: After you catch 'em.
336 00:29:06 MARK: If you just keep by the boat for a few minutes or so,
337 00:29:10 their chance of survival is really, really slim to none.
338 00:29:13 - Yeah? - Yeah.
339 00:29:14 You almost have to cut 'em off at the boat
340 00:29:16 and let them keep going swimming.
341 00:29:17 - Yeah. - Yeah.
342 00:29:19 You stop and take a picture,
343 00:29:21 and try to get their hooks out and all that stuff.
344 00:29:24 It's probably not gonna survive.
345 00:29:26 Yeah. And that's okay with you?
346 00:29:30 - If the sharks don't... - Well, what're you gonna do?
347 00:29:31 You can't, um, put a sign on the hook and say,
348 00:29:34 "Hey, I don't want any hammerheads biting this bait."
349 00:29:37 I mean, how're you gonna do that?
350 00:29:43 MARK: Well done.
351 00:29:45 Well done.
352 00:29:47 Pretty work, guys. Pretty work.
353 00:29:50 ROB: Maddie, what's happening?
354 00:30:00 Grab the other side.
355 00:30:05 MARK: Nice work, Maddie.
356 00:30:08 It's a wrap.
357 00:30:10 By the time you released, he swam away really good.
358 00:30:14 Good job.
359 00:30:16 Hey, you gotta break a couple of eggs if you wanna make an omelette.
360 00:30:19 Remember that, all right?
361 00:30:21 Good job.
362 00:30:27 That was really fucked up, bro.
363 00:30:33 I have seen, like, a hammerhead like that once in my lifetime,
364 00:30:37 in the distance, on the Great Barrier Reef,
365 00:30:41 for about 15 seconds before it swam off.
366 00:30:45 And that was the closest I've ever been to a hammerhead,
367 00:30:48 and that was terrible.
368 00:30:52 He's thrashing around at the end, thrashing around.
369 00:30:58 And he just, like, gave up.
370 00:31:01 That's the worst thing about it,
371 00:31:03 like, you can film that on a commercial fishing boat,
372 00:31:06 and it's still messed up, which I understand why they do it.
373 00:31:09 But when people do that kind of stuff for fun,
374 00:31:12 I have absolutely no contemplation of what's going through that person's head,
375 00:31:18 why that's fun for someone.
376 00:31:27 MADISON: Rob said
377 00:31:29 it was good to see me having so much care and sadness over an individual.
378 00:31:33 And I could still cry over one animal after all we have seen.
379 00:31:38 It was like an older brother.
380 00:32:08 ROB: The killing of sharks is, I think,
381 00:32:10 is one of the biggest concerns that we should have
382 00:32:11 on the planet ecologically today.
383 00:32:15 We depend on ecosystems for survival.
384 00:32:17 We depend on other species.
385 00:32:19 They're part and parcel of ourselves, of our daily lives.
386 00:32:22 Removing sharks is removing part of the framework
387 00:32:25 that allows life to exist on land.
388 00:32:27 It's the animal that sits on top of 70% of the oxygen
389 00:32:31 in the air that we breathe from phytoplankton in the oceans.
390 00:32:35 If you remove once species, the consequences ripple through entire ecosystems.
391 00:32:39 And right now, we're removing, you know, the most important predator the planet has.
392 00:32:43 And the consequences are going to not just affect oceanic ecosystems,
393 00:32:46 they're going to affect our ecosystems and ourselves.
394 00:32:55 [ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
395 00:33:37 [SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
396 00:33:43 ROB: We're now killing up to 150 million sharks a year,
397 00:33:46 and it's not just shark fin soup anymore.
398 00:33:50 Sharks are now being killed and renamed and fed to us,
399 00:33:54 so we don't know we're eating shark.
400 00:34:00 This is a massive scandal representing tens of millions of sharks every year.
401 00:34:04 [MAN SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
402 00:34:14 [SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
403 00:34:25 ROB: Eating sharks is a bad idea.
404 00:34:29 We're eating endangered super predators.
405 00:34:32 We're eating animals that can take 40 years to reach sexual maturity.
406 00:34:36 They can have very few young.
407 00:34:42 Most of the pollution we've ever made as a species
408 00:34:44 has gone into the environment untreated.
409 00:34:46 And that accumulates in living animal matter
410 00:34:50 and concentrates as you go up the food chain.
411 00:34:54 By the time you get to sharks, they're enormously toxic.
412 00:34:57 With things like lead and mercury and even neurotoxins.
413 00:35:02 So it's important that we keep sharks out of our food.
414 00:35:09 They're enormously toxic.
415 00:35:12 Let's recommend to women and children, don't eat them at all.
416 00:35:17 It's really important to bring this message to the public.
417 00:35:20 [SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
418 00:35:31 [SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
419 00:35:37 Here are the fins.
420 00:35:45 - ROB: It's worth a lot of money. - MAIKE: Here, it's $5.
421 00:35:48 - $5? - Yeah.
422 00:35:49 - MAN: This is $5 here. - Max.
423 00:35:50 - So $5 here, and in China, 200 bucks? - Yeah.
424 00:35:55 MAIKE: A pound of the little ones, it's 50 cents.
425 00:35:58 - 50 cents? - Here in...
426 00:36:00 [SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
427 00:36:21 Baby hammerheads.
428 00:36:36 MAIKE: As we have learned,
429 00:36:37 there has been two confiscations.
430 00:36:39 I checked the confiscations.
431 00:36:42 Why do they keep the fins here?
432 00:36:44 MAIKE: Because this is the coast and ocean department
433 00:36:48 of the environment ministry.
434 00:36:50 Okay.
435 00:36:52 MAIKE: And it's in their custody.
436 00:37:06 ROB: We're here in a parking lot in Panama City
437 00:37:10 with hundreds of thousands of dollars of shark fins
438 00:37:11 confiscated from people that were trying to check these into airlines
439 00:37:15 and fly them to Asia.
440 00:37:24 [CONVERSING IN SPANISH]
441 00:37:33 This is a seizure of 800 pounds of shark fins in Panama
442 00:37:36 representing $300,000 in shark fins.
443 00:37:40 Uh, many of which are illegal and on the endangered species list,
444 00:37:43 including the scalloped hammerhead shark, our favorite species.
445 00:38:05 These are all Scalloped hammerheads?
446 00:38:07 Yup. In essence, they should.
447 00:38:10 MAIKE: They are huge hammerheads.
448 00:38:18 [SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
449 00:38:20 And there's 40,000 fins here?
450 00:38:22 38,868.
451 00:38:27 Oh, my God.
452 00:38:37 MAIKE: So we've seen many different shark species,
453 00:38:41 um, of many different sizes.
454 00:38:43 Among these, probably the largest hammerhead fins
455 00:38:46 that, at least, I have seen.
456 00:38:51 So, the newborns, the lighter ones.
457 00:38:54 They seem to really get a little bit depressed
458 00:38:56 when they see these little, small...
459 00:39:29 - MAIKE: Just the tip of the iceberg. - SEBASTIAN: Yeah.
460 00:39:33 [SEBASTIAN SPEAKING]
461 00:39:57 This is a lot of shark fins.
462 00:39:59 Yeah, I've never seen something like that before.
463 00:40:22 RON: When we started making Sharkwater,
464 00:40:24 there were four countries that have banned shark finning.
465 00:40:29 When we were finished, there were 16 countries that have banned shark finning.
466 00:40:32 Now, there's more than 90 countries around the world
467 00:40:34 that have banned the process of finning,
468 00:40:36 but none of them have banned the importation of fins,
469 00:40:39 which means you can fin as many sharks as you want
470 00:40:41 as long as you put the fins on a shipping boat
471 00:40:43 before you bring them into port, not a fishing boat,
472 00:40:47 which is a massive loophole.
473 00:40:57 WILL: So those are reefer containers
474 00:40:59 that Rob's identified as being full of frozen shark.
475 00:41:16 Think Rob's gonna get pinched?
476 00:41:18 That guy's obviously playing close to security, right?
477 00:41:22 - [LAUGHING] - ART GAETAN: Yeah.
478 00:41:23 I'm a little bit surprised he is.
479 00:41:24 WILL: Yeah, he is. He's not afraid of anything.
480 00:41:35 Holy crap.
481 00:41:38 That's a fin.
482 00:41:40 Just laying on the wharf.
483 00:41:41 WILL: So we're all shark biologists here. Any idea what species?
484 00:41:48 JOE PRATT: Not shark would be the guess.
485 00:41:50 WILL: Oh, God. Holy...
486 00:41:54 JOE: Yeah, that's not blue shark, Brother.
487 00:41:56 WILL: No, that's not a blue. We've seen plenty of their fins.
488 00:41:59 What do you think?
489 00:42:00 That's a dorsal from something, I'd say.
490 00:42:06 What's this?
491 00:42:08 ROB: Blue shark tags.
492 00:42:10 WILL: Tiburon azul, yeah.
493 00:42:12 ROB: Stating that blue sharks that were landed here were caught in Spain.
494 00:42:15 WILL: [CHUCKLING] Oh, creepy.
495 00:42:16 ROB: We're nowhere near Spain.
496 00:42:21 JOE: So, apparently, they're not really trying to hide it.
497 00:42:33 Does this shit make you nervous?
498 00:42:36 No.
499 00:42:44 What's happening?
500 00:43:00 WILL: Where's the Japanese boat?
501 00:43:02 ROB: Right there.
502 00:43:06 And you can see the trans-shipping boat.
503 00:43:28 They're right now with each other,
504 00:43:30 and the freezer container ship has got a crane
505 00:43:34 over top of the Japanese boat right now.
506 00:43:42 WILL: Oh, shit, dude. They're unloading right now.
507 00:43:46 ROB: At the end of the dock, they're unloading blue sharks.
508 00:43:49 Fuck, what are these boats? There's tons of them.
509 00:43:54 A car has pulled up behind ours,
510 00:43:57 just randomly beside us.
511 00:44:00 He looks Costa Rican.
512 00:44:02 Oh, great.
513 00:44:56 [WHISTLING]
514 00:45:38 ROB: Hello. Hi, nice to meet you. What's your name?
515 00:45:41 - MAN: Roden. - ROB: Roden.
516 00:45:56 [INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
517 00:46:08 - ROB: Slippery. - MAN: Slippery.
518 00:46:18 ROB: Wow.
519 00:46:20 So much money.
520 00:46:22 Is this full or it will be all the way full?
521 00:46:25 MAN: All the way full.
522 00:46:26 ROB: All the way. Wow.
523 00:46:36 ROB: They're all big blue sharks in that container.
524 00:46:39 Blue sharks are cute, they're dopey, big eyes.
525 00:46:43 They don't really ever bite people.
526 00:46:48 They're loading the shipping container
527 00:46:51 full of tens of thousands of pounds of blue sharks
528 00:46:55 onto a shipping boat to leave the country.
529 00:47:02 The word is out around the world, that sharks mean money.
530 00:47:29 You know, we spent four years, 15 countries,
531 00:47:31 trying to figure out what the biggest environmental issues were out there,
532 00:47:34 only to discover that one of the biggest destructors of our life support system
533 00:47:37 is in our own backyard.
534 00:49:13 I think the biggest issue we have on the planet right now
535 00:49:15 aside from the environment, is our lack of awareness of what's going on.
536 00:49:21 We don't know about our individual actions, about our consumption,
537 00:49:24 about our government and corporations
538 00:49:26 destroying our life support system.
539 00:49:30 If we did, our morals would engage,
540 00:49:32 and we'd be guided to a world that works.
541 00:49:35 We'd hold our friends and our family,
542 00:49:37 and our governments accountable for this stuff.
543 00:49:39 We just don't know what's going on.
544 00:50:01 ROB: It's 3:00 in the morning.
545 00:50:34 My parents were here all the time, yeah.
546 00:50:39 What I've always told them, I just have this belief that I'm gonna be okay,
547 00:50:44 and I'm sure I'm gonna be okay.
548 00:50:50 I mean, I had times that I almost died and ended up okay,
549 00:50:53 and sort of reinforce that belief that I'm gonna be okay.
550 00:51:01 I know exactly how I'm gonna die,
551 00:51:03 when I'm gonna die.
552 00:51:12 Uh, it's sunrise,
553 00:51:14 and we're about to jump in the water in Santa Monica Bay,
554 00:51:18 on the other side of Catalina Island...
555 00:51:21 To go see what is caught in drift nets,
556 00:51:24 nets that are a mile long,
557 00:51:27 that just hang as a curtain at night
558 00:51:28 and catch anything that swims into it.
559 00:51:31 It's a hugely destructive method of fishing
560 00:51:33 that kills dolphins, whales, turtles, sharks,
561 00:51:37 and all sorts of things under
562 00:51:39 the guise of catching swordfish.
563 00:51:42 So, knowing how we've already so decimated the oceans,
564 00:51:46 this method of fishing should not be happening,
565 00:51:49 and it definitely shouldn't be happening in Los Angeles.
566 00:51:52 The only reason it's happening is 'cause people don't see it.
567 00:51:55 They don't know what's happening here.
568 00:51:58 And we're gonna change that.
569 00:52:31 Some fisheries will waste 85%
570 00:52:33 of what they bring to the surface as bycatch.
571 00:52:38 Right now, we're wasting 54 billions pounds of dead fish every year
572 00:52:43 that's brought out of the ocean and killed and thrown back
573 00:52:46 because it wasn't our target fish.
574 00:52:52 We wanted the more expensive ones.
575 00:52:54 We threw back all these amazing animals.
576 00:53:24 MAN: Come on, let's go.
577 00:53:25 - ROB: Are they shooting? - MAN: Yeah, yes.
578 00:53:27 MAN: Let's go!
579 00:53:36 ALL: Let's go! Go, go, go!
580 00:53:45 ROB: So we just filmed a thresher shark and a blue shark
581 00:53:48 on a drift gill net
582 00:53:49 right outside of Los Angeles.
583 00:53:52 And while we were doing that,
584 00:53:55 all of a sudden, the boat was immediately on top of us.
585 00:53:58 They were firing shots at you guys on the boat.
586 00:54:00 Um, both the blue shark and the thresher shark were still alive,
587 00:54:03 so you can see their mouths opening and closing and then struggling,
588 00:54:07 and the blue shark had the mesh caught in its mouth.
589 00:54:11 And the thresher shark, it was mangled, all messed up
590 00:54:16 from thrashing around within the net.
591 00:54:18 Really sad to see
592 00:54:20 an endangered majestic superpredator
593 00:54:23 stuck in a primitive fishing method
594 00:54:26 in the town that I'm living in.
595 00:54:28 It's crazy.
596 00:54:31 - WILL: How do you feel? - I don't feel good.
597 00:54:33 [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
598 00:54:36 It's super emotional, it was really hard to watch that thresher just dying.
599 00:54:41 But we're gonna stop this.
600 00:54:48 BROCK: That was the last time Rob and I went diving together
601 00:54:51 in our own backyard.
602 00:55:04 Sure.
603 00:55:07 Make sure it's fresh.
604 00:55:09 WOMAN: Hey guys, this is Ashley, how can I help you?
605 00:55:11 Yeah. Hey, I was wondering, do you guys have any sharks in stock?
606 00:55:26 ROB: So they could recommend going to this one over this one?
607 00:55:30 [MADISON SPEAKING]
608 00:55:33 Could you tell me what kind of shark you have?
609 00:55:36 Black-eyed shark.
610 00:55:39 I am just curious as to what you might have in stock for shark.
611 00:55:44 [WOMEN SPEAKING OVER CELL PHONE]
612 00:55:46 Yeah, hey, I was wondering what sharks you guys have in stock.
613 00:55:50 Awesome. And it's fresh-caught daily in this time of year, right?
614 00:55:54 All right. Thanks a lot.
615 00:55:56 All right we'll be by in a bit. Bye.
616 00:56:01 ROB: I'm wondering if anybody back there knows
617 00:56:03 what this species of shark is.
618 00:56:37 Yeah, it's a wild shark.
619 00:57:00 Hi, can I have one of your vegan meals, please?
620 00:57:04 [SERVICE CREW SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
621 00:57:05 ROB: Thank you, thank you. Bye.
622 00:57:08 Do you know what this is?
623 00:57:10 WILL: Do you know what swai is?
624 00:57:12 ROB: What the heck is swai?
625 00:57:16 WILL: Iridescent shark.
626 00:57:20 What do you have that's got fish in it?
627 00:57:24 It's Alaskan Pollock.
628 00:57:27 Alaskan Pollock.
629 00:57:29 - That's in a box. - In a box, okay.
630 00:58:03 Okay, we are in Florida,
631 00:58:07 and we just bought a bunch of pet food,
632 00:58:11 and fast food, and fish products,
633 00:58:14 and we're gonna test them to see if there's shark in them.
634 00:58:36 DIEGO CARDENOSA: We're right now at FIU.
635 00:58:38 Florida International University.
636 00:58:41 My name is Diego Cardenosa,
637 00:58:42 I'm a PhD student from Stony Brook University in New York.
638 00:58:48 We collect shark fin samples
639 00:58:50 and we do generic bar coding on them,
640 00:58:52 so we assess the composition
641 00:58:55 and the proportion of species in the shark fin trade.
642 00:58:59 All right. Let's do this.
643 00:59:01 Okay.
644 00:59:05 So, right now, we're testing your samples of pet food,
645 00:59:08 um, some shark fillet purchased in supermarkets,
646 00:59:13 um, some tuna salad.
647 00:59:15 So the idea's to try to see if we can find any trace of shark DNA in those products,
648 00:59:21 um, and to identify, if there's any shark DNA in those products,
649 00:59:26 try to identify it at least to a species or genus level.
650 00:59:30 So basically, what this does, is once we put it in the thermocycler,
651 00:59:33 - it will boil to 100 degrees. - Okay.
652 00:59:37 So that destroys the tissue, or whatever the sample is,
653 00:59:41 - and breaks the cell open. - Yeah.
654 00:59:44 And captures everything that is not DNA
655 00:59:47 and leaves you, like, a clear...
656 00:59:50 A clear, um, liquid, let's say, with the DNA.
657 00:59:54 This is the one you're gonna use for it,
658 00:59:55 for your PCR afterwards.
659 00:59:57 ROB: Okay.
660 00:59:58 If there's a shark DNA in this thing,
661 01:00:01 - it will let us know. - ROB: Yeah.
662 01:00:05 Now just mixing a little bit of, uh, shark DNA cocktail.
663 01:00:14 33% of the pet food product tested positive for shark DNA,
664 01:00:18 including blacktip and mako shark,
665 01:00:20 which is a vulnerable species known for very high mercury levels.
666 01:00:24 We also found traces of blacktips, scalloped hammerheads,
667 01:00:27 milk and blue shark DNA in the beauty care products we tested.
668 01:00:43 ROB: Fishing study have showed
669 01:00:44 that shark populations have dropped
670 01:00:45 an estimated 90% in the last 30 years.
671 01:00:49 100 million sharks get killed every year, and nobody notices.
672 01:00:53 It is astronomical.
673 01:00:59 And this is a huge consumer awareness issue
674 01:01:01 that can be fought and can be won.
675 01:01:09 We're not just killing sharks for shark fin soup,
676 01:01:12 we're killing sharks for a myriad of crazy reasons.
677 01:01:16 Sharks are now being killed and renamed, and fed to us,
678 01:01:19 things like rock salmon and flake,
679 01:01:21 so we don't know we're eating shark.
680 01:01:23 Sharks are also turning up in pet food,
681 01:01:26 live stock feed, fertilizer, and even in cosmetics.
682 01:01:30 We're smearing endangered superpredators on our faces without knowing it.
683 01:01:50 So it's important for all of us,
684 01:01:51 if we want to ensure a healthy environment into the future,
685 01:01:54 to make sure that things we buy,
686 01:01:56 the foods we buy, the cosmetics, are shark-free.
687 01:02:03 Insist in a world that's shark-free,
688 01:02:04 and insist that your cosmetics, your fertilizers,
689 01:02:07 your pet food, your livestock feed,
690 01:02:09 doesn't contain shark or shark parts.
691 01:03:35 [INAUDIBLE]
692 01:03:40 [SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
693 01:03:51 These are rebreathers.
694 01:03:52 They recirculate the air that you breathe
695 01:03:54 and inject the quantity of gasses that you want,
696 01:03:56 depending on the depth that you're going to.
697 01:03:58 In that way, you get a lot closer to fish and sharks
698 01:04:00 because you don't make bubbles,
699 01:04:02 which are very scary for animals like that.
700 01:04:05 Uh, and you could stay a lot longer.
701 01:04:06 You could stay down for six hours almost.
702 01:04:10 As long as you want or need to.
703 01:04:12 So we're gonna use this new technology to go deeper than we've ever been before
704 01:04:15 to film a creature that people have rarely seen in the wild,
705 01:04:19 the sawfish, one of the most endangered sharks in the world.
706 01:04:23 WILL: So, I'm... I'm gonna save a splash.
707 01:04:26 Still sitting 46 feet off my mark,
708 01:04:28 so I think we're secure as I can get us.
709 01:04:32 Let's do it.
710 01:04:37 [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
711 01:04:49 [METAL CLATTERING]
712 01:05:31 [HISSING]
713 01:05:42 [DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
714 01:05:44 [HISSES]
715 01:07:42 [FLARE LAUNCHES]
716 01:07:47 COAST GUARD: Mayday, mayday, mayday.
717 01:07:52 COAST GUARD: This is United States Coast Guard
718 01:07:54 communication station sector key west.
719 01:07:56 We request a boat. We need assistance. Over.
720 01:08:01 REPORTER 1: Watch standers at Sector Key West Command Center
721 01:08:03 received a report of a missing diver.
722 01:08:06 The diver is identified as 37-year-old Robert Stewart
723 01:08:09 from Toronto, Canada.
724 01:08:11 REPORTER 2: Canadian filmmaker has gone missing
725 01:08:13 while diving in Florida.
726 01:08:15 The US Coast Guard is searching for Rob Stewart right now
727 01:08:17 off the coast of the...
728 01:08:19 REPORTER 3: Florida Keys. The US Coast Guard tells us they're using a helicopter,
729 01:08:22 a boat, a team of divers,
730 01:08:24 and in the last hour, they've just added a plane to that search.
731 01:08:26 The Coast Guard says...
732 01:08:28 REPORTER 4: Stewart and four others were diving into Florida Keys
733 01:08:30 off the coast of Islamorada.
734 01:08:31 As their dive came to an end,
735 01:08:33 he resurfaced and signaled that he was fine.
736 01:08:38 REPORTER 5: Stewart disappeared while the boat crew attended
737 01:08:40 to his instructor
738 01:08:42 who had exited the water but then collapsed on deck.
739 01:08:44 The friend said that he jumped in, but couldn't find him.
740 01:08:47 He wasn't seen again.
741 01:08:50 REPORTER 6: Three days later, the search continues,
742 01:08:53 including hundreds of volunteers in small craft, helicopters and airplanes.
743 01:08:57 His worried parents pray that he's found alive.
744 01:09:01 BRIAN STEWART: It doesn't look great.
745 01:09:03 But we've got... He's the kind of person that would survive.
746 01:09:06 SANDRA STEWART: He's super fit and he's a great swimmer.
747 01:09:09 And he's done thousands of dives.
748 01:09:12 [HELICOPTER HOVERING]
749 01:09:17 REPORTER 7: T he body of missing Toronto filmmaker, Rob Stewart,
750 01:09:19 has been found in the waters off of Florida Keys.
751 01:09:23 REPORTER 8: Tributes have been paid to the Canadian filmmaker and campaigner,
752 01:09:26 Rob Stewart, who's died while diving off Florida.
753 01:09:29 Rob Stewart won many awards for...
754 01:09:31 [REPORTER 9 SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
755 01:09:34 [REPORTER 10 SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
756 01:09:37 [REPORTER 11 SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
757 01:09:45 REPORTER 12: Deep sadness in Toronto today
758 01:09:47 at the funeral of Robert Stewart,
759 01:09:49 an acclaimed filmmaker and ocean conservationist who died at sea.
760 01:09:53 Stewart's known worldwide for...
761 01:09:55 REPORTER 13: The family has received messages of support from across the world.
762 01:09:59 Family and friends say Stewart's job is not done yet.
763 01:10:03 BRIAN: We should be so thankful that in this little galaxy of stars
764 01:10:06 that our life is and our friends are,
765 01:10:08 that we had a son like Rob at the center of it.
766 01:10:12 SANDRA: I think his real legacy will be all of these other people
767 01:10:15 that he inspired who will carry his work forward.
768 01:10:28 ROB: It was an amazing journey.
769 01:10:34 It was very much a learning process for me
770 01:10:36 all the way along.
771 01:10:39 Because in the beginning, it was sort of, like, "What? We're all gonna die?"
772 01:10:42 All the way through, you know, trying to figure out,
773 01:10:44 you know, how we're gonna save ourselves.
774 01:10:50 But seeing all the destruction that humans had wrought
775 01:10:52 on ecosystems and species and the lack of care that was coming,
776 01:10:56 I sort of developed a distrust and dislike of humanity at times.
777 01:11:06 And then, through making this movie
778 01:11:07 trying to educate humanity about what's happening to sharks
779 01:11:10 and seeing them take that cause and fight for it,
780 01:11:12 particularly kids,
781 01:11:13 it really instilled a lot more hope,
782 01:11:16 and made me love humanity a lot more than I could before.
783 01:11:24 We still have a bright future if we want it,
784 01:11:26 but we've got to do something now.
785 01:13:28 [ OVER THE RAINBOWPLAYING]
786 01:13:51 YOUNG ROB: I'm in to save the turtle! Whoo!
787 01:14:20 I'm standing in front of Darwin's Arch at Darwin's Island.
788 01:14:24 This is Darwin's Arch, right?
789 01:14:26 And Darwin Island?
790 01:14:28 Now this is the mecca of diving...
791 01:14:33 I lost it.
792 01:14:35 Like I ever had it.
793 01:14:39 ROB: When I started out, I wanted to bring people closer to sharks
794 01:14:42 than they'd ever been before,
795 01:14:44 so that, you know, they could actually see an interaction to sharks
796 01:14:46 they've never seen before and truly understand them.
797 01:14:51 'Cause when elephant falls for ivory in Africa
798 01:14:53 and the world goes crazy.
799 01:14:55 Elephants kill 200 people a year.
800 01:14:57 Sharks kill five people a year.
801 01:14:59 We kill 100 million of them, and nobody notices.
802 01:15:05 The reality behind sharks is that they're not predators of people.
803 01:15:08 If sharks, you know, ate people,
804 01:15:09 the oceans would be a really dangerous place,
805 01:15:11 and people would be getting eaten every day. But they're not.
806 01:15:14 I think what's unfair and irresponsible is wiping out 90%
807 01:15:17 of the most important longest-lasting predator the planet has
808 01:15:20 for the sake of soup.
809 01:15:21 [CROWD CHEERING]
810 01:15:23 Thank you, everyone,
811 01:15:25 for being part of the largest rally for climate change in history.
812 01:15:29 This cannot end today.
813 01:15:31 This energy is amazing,
814 01:15:32 and you've got to bring it forth into everything that you do.
815 01:15:35 That's nothing more important than conservation
816 01:15:37 because conservation is the preservation
817 01:15:39 of human life on Earth.
818 01:15:41 [CROWD CHEERING]
819 01:15:44 People don't understand how ecosystems work because they never taught it.
820 01:15:47 I mean, if you look at the education system,
821 01:15:48 why are taught Shakespeare and Algebra
822 01:15:50 before we're taught conservation
823 01:15:52 or we're taught how to survive on the planet?
824 01:15:54 Especially if we know by mid-century
825 01:15:56 that our survival is very much in jeopardy.
826 01:15:58 [LAUGHTER]
827 01:16:00 High-five.
828 01:16:01 ROB: This stuff's important.
829 01:16:03 We depend on the oceans to survive. We depend on life.
830 01:16:06 It's life that gives us our food, our water and our air.
831 01:16:10 [CHILDREN CHEERING]
832 01:16:14 This is it. This is it.
833 01:16:15 This is the generation. This is the task of your time.
834 01:16:18 Are we gonna save the ecosystems we depend on for survival
835 01:16:21 or are we gonna live in lack and starvation
836 01:16:23 and crisis and fight each other over what's left?
837 01:16:26 I believe entirely that we are all morally bound together,
838 01:16:30 and that if we are made aware of these issues,
839 01:16:32 we'll make different decisions.
840 01:16:34 Be conscious of what you eat,
841 01:16:35 where you put your garbage, and how you live your life.
842 01:16:38 Nothing is more important than this.
843 01:16:41 There's never been an issue this big,
844 01:16:43 and there's never been an issue that needs your involvement more than this.
845 01:16:45 So, everybody, thank you.
846 01:16:47 [AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]
847 01:16:51 You've got an opportunity to become a hero.
848 01:16:53 To be a hero.
849 01:17:52 [ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]