Coral Reef Adventure

Coral reef adventure

the south Pacific

lagoons that hint paradise

magnificent coral reefs that

light the dream in corners of minds

this is the world as we wish and could always be

in this great corner of life

thousands of colorful characters coexist

diversities strengthens coral reefs

the more species

the more survival systems

coral reefs be going strong for sixty million years

some corals wave like flowers in the breath

others masquerade the stones

but all corals are animals

this under order playgrounds are built by hard corals

which produce lime stone and turn it into homes

stack one on top of the other

millions of coral homes

gradually form a gigantic reef

how wonderful the largest living structures on earth

are built by tiny animals

coral reefs protect nearly all tropical coast

standing between islander's homes and violent seas

one may injured

doctors use calcium carbonate from coral

to mend our broken bones

when we were sick

chemical components from the reef

may restore our health

no place on earth

holds greater potential for medical curers

reefs

feeders

over three hundred million people

rely on fish from reefs

for Pacific islander like me

our coral reefs are as necessary as the air we breath

Russy coral a native of Fiji

has always lived close to the sea

for centuries

my ancestors were careful not to overfish

so our reef was healthy

but this year

something happened

something terrible

a blacker death set over the reef

what was killing our reef?

I made up my mind to find the answers

I decide to reach up to

some of my death partners around the world

Howard and Micheal Hall

has spent thirty years exploring and filming reefs

their underwater photography is world known

when Howard and Micheal got Russy's message

they voyaged the mountains

far from the reefs they loved

I was drawing that flight I kept wondering

what we could do to help Russy

then I realized that

our friend Richard Pile might know what to do

he is a marine biologist

across the world

red sea east Africa, Maldives, Philippines

we seeing this kind of problems showing up

in unprecedented rate

Richard showed us how coral reefs to die

and the alarming rate all around the world

ocean warming is the major cause

Richard urged just document coral reefs

on film for science

before they disappear

we knew the Max camera with a credible clarity

was the best way to do this

our mission was clear

bring back images of inside

and why Russy's reef was dying

we need to compare Russy's reef

to other reefs all across the south Pacific

starting with the largest of them all

the Great Barrier Reef

the prospect of diving coral reef

all across the south Pacific

was a bit like a dream come true

we will make hundreds of dives

and some of these would be deeper and more dangerous

than anything we have done before

it would be a most important expedition

in our thirty years' diving together

parts of the Great Barrier Reef

had been protected from overfishing for two decades

the first goal of this ten-month expedition

is to see how well that protection really worked

when I first dove here 22 years ago

these giant clams were not here

they had been fished up by commercial fishmen

today we have seen 12 giant clams

that's a great sign

that means this reef spells its back

a local marine biologist named Tracy Medway

let us to the giant potatocut

they were called potatocut

because they had these patchy potato shape

marking on the sides

throughout most of the Pacific

the really large fish had been wiped out by fishmen

for life here under because of the laws that protect them

this vegetarian protect the reef

neighboring a wave seaweeds that smudged the coral

if too many of this kind of fish are removed

corals will die

that's why overfishing destroy reefs

we often realized

how each species benefits each other

until one of them disappeared

just as the fish protect the reef

the coral offers homes and hiding place for the fish

anything from a simple shark

to a custom dream home

gobies often share a home with shrimp

whenever he ventures out of the burrow

the shrimp keeps at least one antenna on the goby

the goby get a unpackable burrow to live in

without lifting a fin

and the very near sited shrimp gets a bodyguard

with flicked its tale

the goby warns the shrimp of approaching foes

this hundred year old coral

makes a nice dinner's office

for potatocut

a small fish

a clean arrester

swims right into the coral's mouth

to feed and parasites

the coral's gets grunt

and arrester gets dinner

partnerships like this seem to require mutual trust

lots of trust

Cart Hollerway, a coral researcher

joined Michael to study interest species communication

I was afraid I was going to heaven

maybe swollen with

but I didn't

it just chin and a little bit

I was studying animal behavior for so many years

this was

this was different

this was a chance for meet it

actually be part of it

cooperation between species sustained lives here

but sometimes it is almost invisible

the coral's most important partners

are tiny microscope alga

that actually live inside the coral and most tissues

this help alga use sunlight to produce sugar

the primary food source

that give coral the energy to build reefs

most corals cannot survive without helper alga

but worldwide

abnormally warm seawater

threaten this partnership

time-up photography can show us how

and just one week

that changed two centigrade drives the alga out

without its main food source

the coral bleaches as ghostly white

if the alga don't return

the corals starves

here in Australia we went to some places that

we have been to 22 years before

and we are surprise to see that

some of the reefs so damaged by ocean warming

part Australian survey give us a baseline

for understanding what was going wrong

at Russy's reefs

when we got to Fuji

it didn't take five minutes to reconnect with Russy

Howard makes me smile again

Micheal and I were eager to help Russy

but first

we have to pay our respect to local tradition

before outsiders can direct my home island

the elders must grant permission

my people have always limited fishing

this tradition of reef conservation

has worked well for centuries

till now

first I wanted Howard to see village reef

as it used to be

the reef looks great with plenty of small fish

but we didn't see many big fish

as we did in Australia

and that worried me

but time had come

I took Howard and Michael further down the reef

I wonder where all the animals gone

these reefs are dying

and all just makes me very sad

seeing so much of these reef destroyed

we realized that

Russy's reef may be what all coral reefs look like

in thirty years

our reef was to be home of so many creatures

but now they almost all gone

after seen all these destruction though

I saw an octopus

octopus is made like a tent with the body

they put up their eight arms and

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