“Ocean” by David Porteborough exposes the invisible destruction of the seas

Nice, France (AP) – A disturbing chain takes place in the water. Then comes the chaos. A baratte mud cloud bursts while a net plowing the seabed, the heartbreaking rays, the fish and a calmar of their house in a violent whirlwind of destruction. This is the trawling of the industrial bottom. It’s not CGI. It’s real. And it’s legal.

“Ocean with David InsightBorough” is a brutal reminder of the little that we see and of the quantity in play. The film is both a radical celebration of marine life and an austere presentation of the forces pushing the ocean towards the collapse.

THE British naturalist and diffuserNow 99 years old, anchors the film with a deeply personal reflection: “After having lived for almost a hundred years on this planet, I now understand that the most important place of the earth is not on earth, but at sea.”

The film retraces the life of Participorough – an unprecedented era of ocean discovery – through the lush beauty of coral reefs, Varech forests and vagabonds, captured in breathtaking and revealing manners.

But this is not the attention of the attention we grew up with. As the environment takes place, the tone of its narration also has. “Ocean” is more urgent, more unshakeable. Images never previously seen with mass coral whitening, cattle down fish and industrial -scale exploitation reveal how vulnerable the sea has become. The power of the film lies not only in what it shows, but in the way such destruction is rarely observed.

“I think we came to the point where we have changed a large part of the natural world that it is almost negligent if you do not show it,” said co -director Colin Butfield. “No one has ever filmed trawling at the professional background before. And yet it happens practically everywhere.”

The practice is not only legal, he adds, but often subsidized.

“For too long, everything in the ocean has been invisible,” said Butfield. “Most people imagine fishing in the form of small boats towards a local port. They do not imagine the factories in sea scratching the seabed. ”

In a heartbreaking scene, unwanted capture mounds are dumped in the sea already dead. About 10 million tonnes (9 million tonnes of metrics) in marine life are captured and thrown each year as accessory sockets. In some fisheries with lower caps, discharges represent more than half of the transport.

However, “the ocean” is not praise. His final act offers a moving overview of what the recovery can look like: the forests of Varech bouncing themselves under protection, large marine reserves teeming with life and the largest colony in the albatros world prosperous in the national monument of papahānauomokuākea marine of Hawaii. They are not fantasies; These are evidence of what the ocean can become again, if it gives the opportunity.

Pulled to World Ocean Day and the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, the film arrives in the middle of a growing global push to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030 – a goal approved by more than 190 countries. But today, only 2.7% of the ocean is actually protected against harmful industrial activity.

The message of the film is clear: today’s laws fail in the seas. The so -called “protected” areas are often not. And prohibiting destructive practices as well as the backdrop is not only possible – it is imperative.

As always, attent Board is a voice of moral clarity. “It could be the moment of change,” he said. “Ocean” gives us the reason to believe – and the demanding evidence – that it must be.

“Ocean” will be presented on Saturday at National Geographic in the United States and Streams worldwide on Disney + and Hulu from Sunday.

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