Costa Rica's Shark Kingdom | Big Blue Wild 101

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Called "the most beautiful island in the world" by Jacques Cousteau, Cocos Island is a jewel among Costa Rica's national parks. Explore hammerhead and Galapagos sharks and learn about the marine species that inhabit these deep waters.
Coco Island, a remote and indomitable marine reserve
in the blue and wild waters of the southeastern Pacific Ocean.
Surrounded by two of the richest coral reefs,
Coco is the holy grail of the mergulhadores.
The explorers of the depths of the sea.
Deep waters and distant waters full of life,
the following shall be added:
Monstrous fish carcasses
and powerful potential predators.
A surprising journey
No fund de un reino subaquático, or any other underwater kingdom,
Beyond the limit of light.
A night on Coco Island belongs to the hunters.
A hungry army of sharks, white whales,
The Commission will be able to take a decision on the proposal.
As it has been for thousands of years.
This is the magnificent Island of the Tubarões.
A great blue nature.
The island of Coco.
Um parque nacional marinho, which is a national park,
Far and immaculate in the blue waters
The savages of the southeastern Pacific.
There are more than 500 kilometers of coastline south of Costa Rica.
Inhabited by human beings,
Enveloped by redemoinhos de neblina,
Its imposing forests and casquettes
They're full of wildlife.
More than 100 species of birds
I'm gonna get into your little picos.
O lendário oceanógrafo Jacques Cousteau and his wife
Coco from the most beautiful island in the world.
A Coco Island is a very special place.
Because it's a tropical forest.
into completely green.
All other islands are just rocks
I'm going to do Ocean.
When you get to Coco,
How is it to be on Robson-Cruzeau Island?
Or then the Island of Jurassic Park.
Ponta de uma antiga montanha vulcanica, which is the highest mountain in the world.
It is believed that a Coco Island
has been an inspiration for a Ilha Nublar,
The fictional setting of Jurassic Park.
The name of the island is Ilha Nublar.
The coconut is the only tropical forest
I'm going to do Pacifico Oriental.
As in Jurassic Park,
Coco also seems a lost world,
Primitive, far from other lands.
There's only one way to get here.
It's by boat.
A journey of 36 hours
I'm going to the continent.
A Coco Island is a unique place.
Hearing the name Coco should give you panic.
It's a legend of the world.
Two... two divers.
Other, including mixtures of animal or vegetable fats
In a world submerged,
pushing a water to a surface.
These currents, rich in nutrients,
the name of the vessel:
That, for your sake,
the following subheadings are added:
The sharks.
But do that anywhere in the world,
Coco is a shark kingdom.
In any dive on the island of Coco,
You'll definitely see sharks.
We have sharks.
Spread over a whole area
And we have Galapagos sharks in some places.
That's why we call it the Cocos Island.
The island of Tubarão.
O shark of the sea,
One of the smallest species of sharks
presents and a daughter,
Navigate by submarine world.
Other fish, including marine gastropods
are creatures of the night,
able to breathe even when they're standing still,
Pushing a water oxigenate
That flows over your guelras.
This shark used to be paralyzed.
during the good part of the day,
preserving your precious energy,
Necessary for a night hunt.
In a blink of an eye,
These small fishes do Recife
Disarm by security,
or signals the presence of predators.
The tubarões martelos have been attracted.
Here by the cleaning stations,
Manchas and rochas
Where the small fishes remove parasites
The larger creatures.
If you're looking for hammerhead sharks,
Definitely need to go to Coco.
A quantity of hammerhead sharks is incomparable,
Hundreds and hundreds of tubarões hammer.
You're drifting in the water.
And then, all of a sudden,
Come and see the branches of the tree,
The lines of the branches formando profundidade
It's a head of a hammer.
It's the first thing I've seen.
You come to see as white lines
And then, you start to see a silhouette.
And, suddenly, you're surrounded by sharks.
And you know they're predators,
Predators from all sides.
Equipped with triangular and serrillad components
So strong and so strong
The following shall be added:
The hammerhead is an imposing predator.
The debate will be held quickly.
from one side to the other
Like I was doing rounds no open ocean.
Compared to his cousin,
o galha-branco-oceânico,
The head-of-the-hammer has a spectacular view.
The eyes are fine on the hammer's end.
The Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down the rules for the application of this Regulation.
That allows the shark to see a dam
from above or below.
But a vision of greater reach
It's not a single utility of the head.
in the shape of a shark's beak.
Like all the sharks,
The head-de-martelo has sensory organs
In your face and head
The Commission has not yet adopted a proposal for a directive on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to ionizing radiation.
Crying for help.
Spread over a wide area
the surface of the head,
These specialized sensors
Let the shark scan.
The ocean floor in search of possible prey.
The most popular prey of the two sharks
I'm going to go with Coco.
Desliza no fundo do mar. I'm not going to let you go.
As comprida as a limousine,
Com a envergadura das asas podendo chegar and the
a 3 meters,
as Raias-Pintadas are as giants from the Isle of Coco.
Comes with 200 kilos,
Other
It can be heavier than a gorilla.
Impulsed by the powerful abas
in their pectoral barbatanas,
Ray-pintada can get a ride.
I'm going to Monte do Mar.
His tail is long, like a boy.
It has two to six venomous farpas.
that a defence against us
the following:
could cause serious injuries
A diving team of unsuspecting divers.
Enquanto respeitarmos is the same as the first.
a distance,
There is no risk.
I'm involved as a Raias.
No case of improvement
If you don't respect the limit,
The animal can feel
threatened and you
Just being reached
by the tail of the deer.
It won't be a pleasant experience.
Because the iron is very big,
Very much so.
He can easily cross
In addition,
As rays are venomous and a wound can be
infected and will be necessary
Treat her quickly.
As the raias-pintadas
They have a big brain.
The size of your body and your credit score
That they are highly creatures
I'm not going to say anything.
As your cousins sharks,
Redondo, are equipped with cells
Specialized nerves
I'm not going to let you carry electrical cargo.
Other animals moving
As a matter of fact,
mainly molluscs,
crustaceans and small bony fish,
They are not in the bottom of the sea.
The waters
the deep waters of the open ocean,
The hunter becomes the prey.
Sometimes you find torpedo rays
Marmorata, with parts missing
So you see a form
Much clear from the mouth of
A shark that only gives a bite
And, you know, a rajah.
You escaped with a lesion and a shark.
We're going to go out for lunch.
In the dark
The night, a predator like
Com um spectrum emerge
The shadows.
O powerful shark of the Galapagos.
The pillars
The Commission has already
years of training,
These creatures are anti-human.
were discovered in the waters
The Galapagos Islands.
Com three metres of compressed
The torpedo is in the shape of a torpedo.
the tubarões das Galápagos
They are implacable hunters.
Armed with a dozen guns.
Dental and dental fileiras
Inside of a big mouth.
O shark of the Galapagos
It's one of the two biggest sharks we have on the island.
But if you respect an animal,
The animal will respect you too.
We know they eat rays.
Come on, the gallas brancas oceánicas.
We've seen it all day and night.
When you see that,
You don't feel any more
I respect you, I feel afraid.
And, all of a sudden, pure
A nature becomes a chaos
It can last 10 or 20 seconds.
It's very brief.
But it's an experience that transforms you into another person.
After that, you're never the same.
Embora perigoso, which is dangerous.
o shark of the Galapagos
It rarely attacks humans.
When threatened, o shark
The archaeological site of the powerful coasts,
Your barbarian is reduced.
- No, not at all.
Drawing a number 8.
A classic show.
The threat.
Even as an experienced diver,
I'm going to find a great shark of the night.
You look twice.
You're not as relaxed as during the day.
And being approached by a shark at night
It's certainly something that makes any
I'm going to feel a lot of adrenaline.
Because it's an hour that they
You know that.
So, this knowledge
Let your adrenaline flow
I'm going to get them high.
I can guarantee it.
Without any threat.
And with no possible prey nearby,
disappear in the dark.
Arrested by
Searching for food.
But when a night
the name of the Member State of the Commission,
a vida no oceano is a
suffer a profound transformation.
He's not the only hunter out there.
The Commission shall adopt the implementing acts referred to in Article 5 (2).
A night here belongs
The following shall be considered:
And there are hundreds of them.
Um, I'm going to go.
Nothin' like Coco is really something special.
Because you are
Acercado de centenas de galhas is a game of cat and mouse.
They're agitated and want to eat.
And you're not one of them.
It all happened so fast.
Sometimes you don't know where to look.
The army.
The name of the product
It spreads no bottom of the ocean.
Considering that during the day
Those sharks were resting.
Caverns or even swimming
calmly over Recife,
At night they are
I'm not being aggressive.
And we'll feed your heads wide noses
The burrows of coral to drive us out.
small crustaceans and fish
- I'm not going to.
Other, including coated paper
Protective eye protrusions
And their exquisite bodies allow
The sharks are going into their crevices.
Slow swimmers and hunters are
At night when most of their prey is at
He is asleep.
Or a shark giving a boat to its prey.
But he's defeated by a
The great black charéu
I'm going to join the hunt.
Quick and agile,
The black charéu paira around the two sharks
The little fishes that are
Trying to escape.
While the sharks continue,
The first is the Lagosta espinhosa marcha.
No fundo do oceano procurando is not a good idea.
For a quiet place.
Long do frenesi da comida. I'm going to eat this.
As the lagostas say of their tocas
During a night in search of caracois,
seafood and sea urchins.
Even though I don't have a clamp
Esmagadora de sus primos with garras,
A lagosta is an armada.
with its long antennas
Farpadas that acenam
to ward off predators.
This is particularly
It's left in peace.
I'm going to tell you something.
Finally, a lagosta found
The enclave of Pacifico Longe do Frenesi
The hunt for sharks.
In the meantime,
a fish-balão pintado
Enveloped in natural toxins
Which makes us unattractive to most people.
Two predators, trying to avoid
The starving sharks.
Even though
The first is the "swimming balls".
compensate this deficiency
For being masters of self-defense.
In addition to highly toxic,
He's capable of stuffing like a balloon,
increasing by two to three times
In your stomach, swelling of the stomach
elastic with water or air
Or simply in the back.
The painted fish-balão turns
Difficult to swallow
of afastar comsucesso
potential predators.
Mainly
The fishes maiores.
Some balloons painted
are enveloped by spinhos afiados
I'm going to be inflated.
But they're dangerous to predators.
Um, the hunter.
That can sink its teeth
a fish-balão painted
You can get a mouth full of tetrodotoxin,
the neurotoxin
Powerful of disagreeable taste
which may render you incapacitated
Or even kill.
or other fish.
For humans, a tetrodotoxin
It's still more lethal, it's a thousand times
More poisonous than cyanide.
A toxin in a fish-balloon
Painted is enough to kill
up to 30 human beings.
The tubarões look like
I'm not interested.
Surge a yellow fish-box.
His body is wrapped in hard plates.
It's like a concha.
He has no bottom of the ocean.
As in the case of a painted fish-balloon,
o fish-coffer também contains toxins
that can be secreted into water.
An effective defence
against predators
Like the sharks.
I'm happy to see you.
There are other options on offer.
And they continue
I'm trying to get a lot of reefs.
I'm going to shoot like a prey of coral.
Com success.
In the darkness of night,
The following species are not included:
not depend on vision
to hunt food.
Instead of that, other senses
As o olfactory and small organs
with sensors elétricos no focinho,
as ampolas de Lorenzini, and
We work together to detect
as presas.
Occasionally, two sharks
We can attack the same fish,
resulting in a disorganized war cap.
Even when
They're hungry and agitated.
They are harmless to humans.
More of the divers.
They have to keep their distance.
When they're looking for their little prey.
If you arrive
Very close to the bottom,
These little fishes can
Don't hide your equipment.
And there are all the sharks of the reef
You're behind the little fish that's hidden.
They're gonna kill you.
I want to feel.
And you could end up getting bitten.
The first is the sea turtle.
The tubarões are moving.
systematically,
- I'm going to go for it.
His head in every crack
The fenda is not a reef.
In an implacable search for food.
It's a show of rage.
It happens.
No world lost
Every night for thousands of years.
Mas nas profundezas escuras is a great place to be.
from the Isle of Coco,
But there are some disconcerting visions.
A ceremony of contemplation.
Here is a board of Argo,
Submersible personalised
The atmosphere
It's called Gypsy.
We're ready now.
Okay, team do topo,
We're going well here on the surface.
And we'll start descending in a few minutes.
O Gypsy is capable
I'm going to go down to the depths.
of 450 meters.
So below the surface,
a sphere de acrílico do Gypsy
has a thickness of 10 cm
The support
a high pressure of deep waters
A depth of 450 meters,
a água exercise
90 times more pressure than body,
as it does on the surface.
Equivalent
weight of a polar bear
Balanced in your chest.
Today, O Gypsy
Se aventurou em uma profundidade (I'm going to have an adventure in your depth)
of 300 metres,
So below the surface
How much is a ponta da Torre Eiffel?
It's above the base.
♪ A journey deep ♪
within a submerged kingdom
I've seen little of it before.
We have the best place in the world
To test a submarine.
No moment that we bring for an island of Coco,
A new world has been revealed to us.
Suddenly we discover that a Coco Island
It's a completely different world.
When we enter the deep waters.
No fondo do abismo, you know what I mean?
cold and dark,
Mysterious and brilliant creatures
I'm going to appear.
O sifonóforo seems to be
The only animal
It's like a water-liva.
In fact, it's a colony.
of small marine animals
The zoo is called.
Unable to survive on her own,
The zoos work so well together.
Like a time, what are capabilities
to function as a single organism
They feed on small animals.
O giant siphonóforo. What is it?
It's one of the two most compressed animals in the world,
I can reach
up to 50 metres,
The same size as an Olympic swimming pool.
Here in the dark,
The creatures
But you can improve the ocean.
It's arrested serenely.
by the current
- What's up?
Thousands of identical zoos
forming a structure of
Large enough for a human being
I could swim in it.
A brilliant light emitted
By a pirossoma can be seen
a distance of 30 meters.
Here you are,
The invertebrates are not alone.
A shark
the name of the product,
illuminated by the light of the submersible,
Inspection of coral.
The same thing
The deep dark waters, the tubarões
They're still specialized hunters.
Similar to humans,
Possessed pupils
which is widening and narrowing,
allowing light to reach the retina.
Other, of a width of
Cones located on the retina
I'm going to make it possible for the shark.
See the details.
Like the cats,
The sharks have a spelled camada.
of crystals on the back of the eye,
increasing the intensity
The light
improving your vision in these waters
Deep and dark.
Compared to the sharks I hunt
In the light of day,
Some deep-sea sharks have eyes
o that allows
That they see these fragments of light
They're penetrating a darkness.
There are 300 meters
below the surface,
What do the divers call us?
a zone of crepúsculo,
A light from the sun penetrates the water.
But long ago,
A source of light is spreading
I'm not going to sleep.
I'm going to have to go.
and graceful as a dancer,
a água-viva
I'm moving the camera slowly.
to compensate for a lack of oxygen
This is a deep water.
Other, including fruit juices
se food of zooplankton minor,
and picando suas presas,
Com tentacles que podemos extender the com tentacles that can extend
Up to 6 meters.
95% of its tissue
It's made of water.
A água-viva exists within
It's part of
Do the ocean.
As escuras
The deep waters of the Coco Island
They are the habitat of rare and mysterious creatures.
Other, rarely
Vistas by humans.
It's almost transparent.
The glass people are not capable
the change of colour,
Like many of his cousins.
A translucent body and almost colorless
o become less visible
for the predators.
His eyes are longed for.
a sua visão periférica, the following
But we can minimize a silhouette of him.
when seen from below,
I'm still helping you.
In your camouflage.
As rarely are seen,
Little is known about the Glass People.
Actually, we don't know much.
about various creatures
that exist in our ecosystems
No fondo do mar, além do limite is not allowed
I'm going to take care of it.
In a world illuminated by the sun,
A familiar creature is approaching.
The summit of a submerged volcanic peak.
Aquecendo-se perto (getting warm by the fire)
the surface of the water,
It's a green turtle.
Normally weighing 140
a weight of 180 kg,
a green tartaruga
It's a second major espécie.
the sea turtle,
I can live
Up to 150 years.
Essas tartarugas marinhas percorreram is a species of sea turtle.
The ocean for over 100 million years.
When we meet
A turtle, we are looking
I'm going to tell you a story about the ocean.
A turtle looks into your eyes.
You look into her eyes and see depth.
It's like you're selling knowledge,
exploration and experience.
You're looking for an animal.
He may be older than you, even.
So, it's something that really
It connects you to the history of the ocean.
A green tartaruga
He's feeding on a sea cucumber.
Other, including:
I've been to Coco Island.
Found in places so far away
as regards Costa Rica,
more than 500 kilometers away.
They have survived.
no ocean for millennia,
But now they are
Listed as an endangered species.
Threatened by the hunt,
accidents of boats
And for the destruction of their land
The Commission has not yet adopted a proposal.
As a sea turtle,
The island of Coco is a playground.
An essential role in the history of the ocean.
Formada
by a volcanic eruption
More than 2 million years ago,
Coco is close
by innumerable montanhas
The catedrais
The submarines are spectacular.
Oh magnificent
Arco do Big dos Amigos, which is a
Sub-area 12 meters
a partir do chão do oceano de areia, and
The arco is a
long or sufficient
to accommodate a dozen divers
The
Shelter for the endless.
Fishes
other
and the multitudes of Luchanidae
Blue and gold.
Other fish
Arco Big dos Amigos is not
I'm going to be a little bit
One of the most surprising dinners
Xareus de Oho Grande to the thousands.
Moving
Like a tornado, thick and silvery.
I'm going to go.
Also known
I'm not going to tell you.
I'm going to go to the cardumes organizados.
to confuse the predators.
The first one.
The individual pre-s of a mass
Sinuous and brilliant
It's not an easy task.
For a predator that is oriented visually.
We're going together.
The fish can look
A single great creature
From a distance, this herd
It seems to be of size and shape.
The pilot of a baleia.
When you dive under that
cardome ou entre ele
It's like it was at night.
A light does not penetrate an incredible amount
You are totally de peixes.
If you're lucky, you'll find a predator.
I'm afraid of the warriors.
And they swim in one direction only
You can hear and feel
A wave of movement.
A little bit
You just feel
That boom around you, you know?
I'm totally amazing.
Exactly spaced
Moving in the same direction
speed
They came quickly.
It's perfect harmony.
So, as soon as he appeared
This hypnotic cardume
disappear in the deep blue water
The monsters
Card de pêchees
The magnificent tubarões hammer
a drug
Creatures from the sea
The untiring
I'm going to go to the nightclub.
A Coco Island
It's a lost world.
And one of many.
The wonders of the great
Blue is nature.
We have a dictate here on the Cocos Island.
If your neck isn't sore
It's because you didn 't go to Coco Island.
Because here we are always looking here, looking there
We're not going to stop when we're underwater.
It's always a lot of action, action.
The action is happening.
It's like a place.
This place is prehistoric.
Into the sea and into the ocean
It's a super-slimming island.
with cachoeiras no environo e cavernas
A place
Very nice to see you.
Coco is an obligation for anyone.
There is a quantity of mergulhador.
enormous number of sharks that do not meet
Anywhere else, if you want.
See sharks, a Coco Island is one of them.
places increasingly rare
There is no planet.
A Coco is an island
A unique opportunity
to see how you
A vida no oceano was before
The influence of the home.
I'm like entering a time machine.
I'm going to go for 200 years without a tempo.
I'm selling the oceans into a market.
It's like a library.
When you go there, you have all the knowledge about
There are all sorts of answers.
For the questions we haven't asked yet.
So, it's something
That makes you feel connected
I'm with nature.
