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...to Darwin and Wolf...
...two remote undersea volcanoes...
...that barely broke the surface.
One of the few places on Earth...
...where hammerhead sharks
congregate in schools.
We're just getting ready
to go in for a dive...
...where there's supposed to be
congregating hammerhead sharks.
The undersea currents come up...
...bringing nutrient-rich water
to the surface...
...which causes a ton
of tiny plankton feeders to school here...
...and the hammerhead sharks
come up as well...
...and they circle in the current...
...and go back down at night
to feed on squid.
So we're gonna go down
to maybe 130 feet...
...and see if we can find
some schooling hammerhead sharks...
...possibly a silky shark or two.
The Galapagos hosts...
...one of the largest marine
reserves on Earth...
...where sharks
are cherished and protected.
Hammerheads are some
of the most misunderstood species.
They are incredibly shy animals.
Hammerheads, like all sharks...
...have two more senses than people.
They have lateral lines
running along the sides of their bodies...
...that can detect movement
in the water.
Their heads
...that detects electro-magnetic fields...
...enabling them to find food
that's hidden from view...
...and to feel my heartbeat.
They can feel me...
...and know if I'm excited or scared.
They're so afraid of us...
...that if I'm not calm...
...keeping my heart rate low...
...they won't come
anywhere near me.
Hammerheads use
the Earth's magnetic field...
like road maps...
...navigating thousands of miles
through the oceans.
Sharks are normally solitary...
...but hammerheads come together...
...only at a few undersea pinnacles...
...to socialize and mate.
The schools are made up
of mostly females...
...with the largest vying
for position in the centre...
...where the males come
to look for mates.
Dominant females,
which can be 12 feet long...
...control their position in the school...
...using aggressive displays...
...pushing subordinate females
to the fringes.
The schools break up at night...
...when they descend
We know so little about sharks...
...that a new species of hammerhead...
...was just found
in the Atlantic Ocean in 2006.
...makes them one of the most
manoeuvrable and feared sharks.
But the truth is...
...there's no record
of a hammerhead shark...
...ever killing anyone.
When we surfaced from the dive...
...we found two fishing boats...
...trailing 60 miles of long lines.
A line with 16,000 baited hooks...
...that would stretch from Earth
to outer space.
The boats fled...
...because long-line fishing
is illegal in the Galapagos...
...and we were left with the lines.
I hopped in the water
as soon as I could...
and tried to film...
...whatever I could find
on the long lines...
...and we swam for probably
two or three kilometres...
...pulling ourselves along the lines...
...and unclipping
every baited hook we could find.
The first fish I found
was a seven-foot-long sailfish...
...and it was dead.
It suffocated because it wrapped itself
up in the long line.
So it couldn't keep swimming
to keep breathing.
Farther along the line,
I found a dorado.
It was still alive.
It was swimming in a circle...
...the largest it could...
...considering the long line
attached to it.
so I wouldn't scare it...
...and I cut it loose.
Then I found the sharks.
For 60 miles...
...sharks were dying on those lines.
They struggle so much...
...that they entangle themselves
and suffocate.
There were only a few left alive...
...and I cut them loose.
In total...
...we found 160 sharks...
...five sailfish...
...four dorado and a tuna.
It felt like part of my family
was dying.
Something shifted that day...
...and I changed.
This is just a line...
...a long line with baited hooks on it...
...but many, many animals...
...most animals swimming around
in the surface waters...
...are interested
...so take the hooks
and subsequently get caught.
And they may or may not be
what the fisherman are looking for...
...and things like leatherback turtles
or some marine mammals...
...can simply get entangled
in that line of gear.
There are more selective ways
of fishing...
...there's a lot of waste
that goes on out there.
And I think one of the big reasons...
...it continues to go on,
is because we don't see it.
We know that predators
are fundamental in controlling...
...the structure and the functioning
of the ecosystems.
So basically if you cut off
the head of the ecosystem...
...if you wish,
the top species...
...the top carnivores that control
a lot of the processes...
...lower down in the food web...
...you're removing a really important
controlling agent...
...and that could cause upheaval
...like the plants...
...and the zooplankton.
The ocean is basically
the life-support system...
...of the planet.
To change
that life-support system...
...in any major way
is a risky thing.
We know from the past
that when oceans have changed...
...that life on Earth has changed.
I needed to know
why people were killing sharks...
...and what I could do to stop it.
So I left my job as a photographer...
...and set out
to make a film about them...
...but they were gone.
found hundreds of sharks...
I only found a few.
Shark populations have been decimated
all over the world...
...and the last sharks
...in the few remaining sanctuaries.
Nobody noticed.
Everyone wanted to save pandas,
elephants and bears...
...and the world
was afraid of sharks.
I read this story
about this boy who was 13, in Japan...
...and got swallowed whole.
It didn't even bite him...
...it just swallowed him.
Yeah?
And they cut out
and they found his body.
And it wasn't even bit,
and that's scary.
So if you're not seeing sharks here...
...why are you so afraid
of the water?
Because they'll still bite you...
...and I... I panic, I always panic.
I'm such a wimp.
Well, what are your chances
They must be so small.
- No, not really.
No, it's small. I've never seen
a shark here in my life.
I've never heard
of anywhere else...
...getting bit by sharks
as much as here.
That's true.
- Not even in Daytona.
- Here is like the worst.
Sharks rarely bite human beings,
but never because they're hungry...
...and say, "Ah, look,
there's something juicy over there. "
They try to figure out what we are.
They don't know what we are,
so they explore us.
On the very rare occasions
they come that close...
...they actually can just do
an exploratory bite...
...and that's why the majority of all bites
are very, very superficial.
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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