From the huge expanses of the seemingly endless clear oceans to the microcosm of living found within a single rock pond , the late offer from the BBC Natural History Unit has not let down . But asBlue Planet IIdraws to an end , it has a sombre word of advice for human race : we are smothering the oceans with plastic .
The final instalment of the series will addressthe state of the ocean , and what humans have done to cause it . Often impeach of skirting around the issue of how we are destroying the environment , the makers are give a whole episode to how mood change , plastic , overfishing , and randomness contamination are creating the greatest threat our ocean have see in human history .
“ For age we cogitate the oceans were so huge and the inhabitants so infinitely numerous that nothing we could do could have an effect upon them . But now we have sex that was wrong,”saidDavid Attenborough . “ It is now clear our actions are take a significant shock on the world ’s oceans . [ They ] are under terror now as never before in human account . Many mass believe the sea have reached a crisis spot . ”
One peculiarly heartbreaking chronicle involves the wandering albatrosses filmed for theBig Blueepisode . Despite cuddle on remote islands in the Antarctic Ocean , the scientist supervise the birds on South Georgia ’s Bird Island have found that the dame are still being belt down due to plastic . The adults research thousands of miles of ocean seek out enough calamary and fish to feed their growing chicks , but often pick up credit card floating on the surface rather .
One researcher described witness that a dame died because a charge plate toothpick had puncture its abdomen . “ It ’s really sad because you get to know the snort and how long it takes the parents , out for 10 days at a clip , to accumulate solid food for their doll and what they lend back is plastic,”explainedDr Lucy Quinn .
“ And what ’s lamentable is that the plague of credit card is as far - reaching as these seemingly pristine environments . ”
In fact , in every environment that the crews filmed , they bump credit card , with the team collecting it whenever they found it . But this was not the only threat experienced , as rising ocean temperature are killing coral reefs , the stochasticity from boats and underwater exploration for oil and gasolene submerge out the claim of fish and whales , and overfishing strips the seas bare .
There is hope though . The episode will show how the direction of herring fishery in Norway help to not only make the diligence sustainable , but also protect the orca . Or how one conservationist in Trinidad is guarantee the future of leathery turtle turtles on the island .
One thing is certain though . We need to roleplay , and we take to act now .
