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Sep 1, 2021 · Conspiracy theories about the sea often sound believable but have eventually been debunked over the years. Oceanic mysteries like sea creatures, government plots, lost cities, and even alien sightings have taken the internet by storm, but of course, they're just conspiracies and not facts.
- Tales of Sailors
The sea can be a creepy mistress indeed, as two Reddit...
- Atlantis Did Exist
The lost city of Atlantis was first mentioned in Plato’s...
- Cynthia Griffith
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- Tales of Sailors
- Tina Donvito
- The ocean floor. Seventy percent of the Earth’s surface is below the ocean, yet 95 percent of it remains unexplored to the human eye. Although the oft-heard statistic is that we know more about the surface of Mars than we do about the ocean seabed, scientists have been able to map the entire ocean floor—but the resolution is incredibly poor, so we can only visualize features larger than three miles.
- Milky sea phenomenon. For hundreds of years, sailors have reported randomly encountering a strange “milky” cast to the sea as far as the eye can see, but scientists have been unable to explain it—or even know for sure if it was real.
- Purple orb. In 2016, researchers from Ocean Exploration Trust (founded by oceanographer and Titanic discoverer Robert Ballard) aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus found a strange purple blob on the ocean floor off California.
- Baltic Sea anomaly. Could there be an alien spaceship on the ocean floor? In 2011, ocean explorers found an oval-shaped object with strange markings on the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
Jan 18, 2024 · They’ve come across fearsome creatures like the giant squid, conducted forensic investigations of mysterious deaths, visited octopus cities, and ventured down as deep as humanly possible.
- Brian Resnick
- The Ocean Will Be Empty of Fish by 2048
- There Is Slavery in The Fishing Trade
- The Ocean Floor Is Being Destroyed
- Sustainable Fishing Is Impossible
- Food Safety Certifications Don’T Guarantee The Safety of Fishing Practices
- We Should All Stop Eating Fish
- Climate Change Is A Threat to Marine Life
This claim was originally made in a scientific paper in 2006 by Boris Worm, but in a follow-up paper in 2009 that he co-wrote, it was found that in certain areas with limited fishing, stock had recovered somewhat. Marine ecologist Bryce Stewart has commented on the documentary’s claims, and said: “When you actually looked at the data it was based o...
It has been acknowledged that slave labour has been uncovered in the past in Thailand, and on fishing ships in the waters of Papua New Guinea, Russia, South Africa, New Zealand and Indonesia. However, the Thai Enquirer has noted some of the aspects of Tabrizi’s reporting should be called into question. Journalist Cod Satrusayan wrote that the Thai ...
The documentary claims that 3.9 billion acres of sea floor is destroyed by bottom trawling every year. This is the process where trawlers drag heavy weighted nets along the sea floor to catch fish and is used by commercial fishing companies because it can catch a large number of fish in one go. Greenpeace agrees with Tabrizi, and have long campaign...
In his documentary, Tabrizi claims that sustainable fishing does not exist, and questions the role of the Marine Stewardship Council, who certify fisheries around the world. The Marine Stewardship Council, a not-for-profit set up by WWF and Unilever over 20 years ago, has since questioned Seaspiracy’s claims, issuing a response to them on 26th Marc...
If you have bought tinned tuna or another variety of tinned fish, chances are the label will state that the product is ‘dolphin safe’ or ‘dolphin friendly’, thus promising that dolphins and other sea life were not harmed when the fish was caught. In the documentary, Mark J Palmerof the Earth Island Institute, the organisation that manages this cert...
Once you have watched Seaspiracy, the last thing you will probably want to eat is a tuna sandwich or scampi and chips. It is worth noting, however, that the producer of the movie is Kip Andersen, the vegan activist who also worked with Tabrizi on his previous food industry documentary, 2014’s Cowspiracy. It could be claimed that Andersen has a vest...
Actually, director Ali Tabrizi doesn’t make this claim at any point in the movie, which has surprised some scientists. Dr Bryce Stewart, a marine ecologist and fisheries biologist, posted a Twitter threadon 27th March pointing out the omission. “People will either believe it [Seaspiracy] and completely overreact, or find it so easy to discredit som...
- Grace Henry
Seaspiracy ( / siːˈspɪrəsi /) is a 2021 documentary film about the environmental impact of fishing directed by and starring Ali Tabrizi, a British filmmaker. [ 1] . The film examines human impacts on marine life and advocates for ending fish consumption .
Apr 8, 2021 · We looked into some of the main claims in the Seaspiracy film on Netflix. Claim: Oceans will be 'virtually empty' by 2048. "If current fishing trends continue, we will see virtually empty oceans...
Apr 8, 2021 · We looked into some of the main claims in the Seaspiracy film on Netflix. Claim: Oceans will be 'virtually empty' by 2048. "If current fishing trends continue, we will see virtually empty oceans...
