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did some in-water recompression...
...came back up and feels fine.
If he's been bent four days
and has severe problems...
...in his shoulder,
he needs to get into a chamber.
The bends is a disease
caused by diving too deep...
...and surfacing quickly.
It's incredibly painful
and you can die...
...if you don't get
to a recompression chamber.
If someone's paying them
to go diving for cucumbers...
...someone should be able
to pay to take them back...
...to Santa Cruz
to get to a chamber.
Because he's really sick.
He could die
if he doesn't get to a chamber.
But the problem is,
they have 12 days left of fishing...
...so they don't want to go back
to Santa Cruz to go to the chamber.
Lose four days of fishing...
...or lose your man?
than the lives of the fisherman.
With the cucumbers nearly gone...
...the fishermen are pushing
to legalize long-lining...
...which catches mostly sharks.
Sharks have always been protected
in the Galapagos.
Now that Costa Rica
was finning sharks...
...the Galapagos is one
of the last strongholds for sharks.
Legalizing long-lining here...
...would wipe out
more than just sharks.
Every animal and ecosystem
in the Galapagos...
...depends on the ocean
for survival.
Sharks have a really tough time...
...catching seals and sea lions.
putting pressure on them...
...so they evolved ways
of avoiding sharks.
The seal evolved
hyper-mobile backbones...
...making them extremely agile
in the water...
...and a difficult target for sharks.
The sharks have to ambush the seals
or find an injured one.
To ambush a seal,
they swim below...
...out of visible range...
...looking for the silhouette
of a seal...
...a very similar silhouette
to a human on the surface.
A healthy seal
moves through the water...
...without any noise or bubbles.
But an injured one
will flail about...
...creating a disturbance
in the water...
...just like humans when we swim.
It's amazing how few people
are attacked each year...
...considering how much
we look like shark food.
but they're all doing the same thing.
So the cute little baby harp seal
grows up and goes out and eats fish...
...just as viciously as a shark.
But we think of the seal
as sort of cute and cuddly...
...and we think of the shark
as something vicious...
...but that's just human mythology.
Then my mission stopped cold...
I had a pain in my leg
and was taken to the hospital.
It was diagnosed
as flesh-eating disease.
Doctors said
I was lucky to be alive...
...that I would only lose my leg.
I had a pain in my lymph gland
to the right of...
...to the left of my groin...
...and I came to the hospital,
asked them what's wrong;
...they said I got Staphylococcal
bacteria in my leg.
Staphylococcus,
or flesh-eating disease...
...infects the body through any wound...
...even a tiny cut,
like the ones I had on my feet.
It destroys tissue,
consuming the body...
...and if untreated, can kill you.
I was hospitalized,
fighting to save my leg.
Watching the IV
of antibiotics and saline solution...
...drip into my arm.
Now that I couldn't be
in the ocean...
...they were dripping the ocean
into me.
I'll be fine, okay?
I promise.
I lay there, watching the red line
creep up my leg.
It was halfway through my thigh
and if it made it to my hip...
I would lose more than my leg.
I'm probably way more likely
to die working in Toronto than here.
Dude... Brian, don't get stressed
and don't get upset, okay?
It's fine, it's just...
it's just another bump, alright?
Then I heard from Paul.
He said there was nothing
they could do...
Sea Shepherd was being
kicked out of the Galapagos...
...because the Galapagos
had legalized long-lining.
The fishermen wanted more money
The government gave in...
...and long-lining was legalized.
Now we've lost Cocos
and the Galapagos...
...to the fin industry.
I think the world needs to know...
...that sharks are probably...
...the most threatened
group of species...
...that we have
And that a lot of shark species
are declining very rapidly;
...that this is not
a natural phenomenon.
It's because of fishing
...and that there's a lot we can do
about this to change it.
Sharks are going to be difficult
to conserve...
...because on one hand,
you have people afraid of them...
...and not really wanting
to go anywhere near them.
People can sort of fish them
with impunity.
There's nobody
looking after the sharks.
There's no campaign...
...like a Greenpeace campaign...
...to save the sharks.
Paul left to start a campaign...
...against illegal whaling
in Antarctica.
And I was alone.
Two of the world's
last sanctuaries for sharks...
...were going to be wiped out.
During my last six days
in the hospital...
...more than 1.5 million sharks
had been killed.
Everyone told me to go home...
...forget about sharks...
...and try and save my leg.
I didn't know if what I was doing
made sense anymore...
...but all I could think about...
...was getting back underwater
with sharks.
Sharks' presence in the ocean
has provided a framework...
...for the populations below them...
...including phytoplankton...
...tiny aquatic plants
that consume more carbon dioxide...
...than anything else on Earth.
Carbon dioxide
is the global-warming gas...
...and plankton converts it to oxygen...
...providing 70/ of the oxygen
we breathe on land.
Without sharks to prey on them...
...plankton feeders below sharks
could grow out of control...
...consuming the plankton
that we depend on for survival.
The ocean
is the most important ecosystem...
...regulating climate
and feeding much of the planet.
Life on land
depends on life in the ocean.
I finally realized
that it's not just about saving sharks...
...it's about saving ourselves.
to save sharks in the Galapagos...
...but shark finning
was still illegal in Costa Rica.
If I could get back
into Costa Rica...
...maybe I could finally
get to Cocos...
...and do something
to stop the finning.
I lay there,
hoping the red line would stop...
...and after a week it did.
The infection subsided
and I was finally free.
...that we don't really understand
what we are.
In essence,
we're, uh, you know...
...just a conceited naked ape...
...but in our minds
we're some sort of divine legend...
...and we see ourselves
as some sort of god...
...that we can walk around the Earth
deciding who will live and who will die...
...and what will be destroyed
and what will be saved.
But the fact is, we're just a bunch
of primates out of control.
We're now in the midst
...but this time
the enemy is ourselves...
...and the objective is to save
the planet from ourselves.
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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