CHASING CORAL notes w/ time stampish - Subject to huge storms and hurricanes

- With the Depth + pressure of the water

Ocean - lack of advertising issue: completely

out of site and out of mind
Symbiosis

Source of life: controls weather Symbiont is living in the coral itself; one
climate, & oxygen
cannot live without the other

without healthy ocean not healthy

planet
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Predicting Where to do it?

XL Catlin Seaview survey: to reveal the - 1st…where this is happening

ocean in the world

- El nino

(but ppl didnt understand the problem)

- NOAA - shows sea surface temperatures
80-90% corals lost in florida
that show coral bleaching

In the last 30 years we lost 50% of the - Oceans have been warming

world’s corals
- Warm temp goes warmer n warmer

9min
= northwestern Hawaiian islands
showing a level of warming aka Where u
00:12:05
usually see bleaching

Corals made out of polyps with a circular

mouth surrounded by tentacles… micro 00:29:—

algae with chloroplasts for photosynthesis Heatwave on the planet … kills the corals
for food
wherever its going

Day photosynthesizze; at night polyps go out

TO CAPTURE the bleaching event and to
communicate it in a massive way

00:14:40

Airport reef in American Samoa

BASED ON NOAA: PUT CAMERAS IN:
Corals turning white
HAWAII, BERMUDA & BAHAMAS

00:16:20
challenge: communicating with the team
In the 80s - coral bleaching not a disease;
while constructing underwater w/ 0 gravity

- raised by 2 degrees Celcius warmer

Storm lightning weather - drifting away; did
- May be caused by global warming . . coral not anchor

bleaching is an early effect on reefs

Glass dome around the camera- cant adjust
settings on the camera

00:17:50

coral bleaching 00:37:—

- stress response
Great coral reef As a city
- Like a fever
Organisms working living together

- Small plants in their tissues are impaired, And how they affect us

loses their ability to photo synthesize

- Food

- Loses main source of food = die

- medicine

When white - it may be alive but not allowing - Protects us from big waves

anything to grow on it = most likely to die

(again)
00:41:—

Retrieval of cameras after 2 months

00:20:20
All out of focus

Goal: to Document the change of corals - manual focus changing over time

dying to reveal to the public in a powerful

way
00:44:—

Wiper system for timelaps camera - Australia warming

designing
Better equipment

- too many unknowns

- Submerged in saltwater for months

00:46:—
Encouraged people to photograph the event

Great barrier reef

Kepple & heron island 1:20:—

ending remarks

00:49:—
Not too late all achievable

Global carbon change by emitting carbon

into the atmosphere

Carbon traps heat into the earth

93% of heat goes into the ocean - cools the

earth but ocean gets warmer

Coral reefs casualty of climate change

alarmist Prof: Ove hoegh- Guldberg

00:52:—

wind and storm in kepple - cold water n rain

ruuined plan

New caledonia & lizard island -CHANGE

LOCATION

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1 tripod 1 camera

And get as many shots as we can in as many

positions of as many coral pieces that we
can

Everyday

00:57:—

New Caledonia - fluorescent corals

phenomenon

Chemical sunscreen to protect themselves

form the heat

v vivid

Beautiful transformation - of death

1:00:00

Small and big fish disappear - humans as big

fish

ECOLOGICAL collapse of an entire

ecosystem

1:06:—

Not abt climate change is happenign or

not…

More of knowing whether its going to be bad

or rly bad —- (lol wat?)

Corals will not survive

1:16:—

Mortality event at a massive scale 29% gone

in a year

v widespread global massive event