0:03in a remote corner of the South Pacific
0:05National Geographic Explorer and Rick Saleh
0:08leads an elite team into a hidden world
0:12in search a man underwater
0:15Needham
0:18where humans rarely venture and sharks rule
0:26missus amazing killers yes of
0:29anywhere else in the world diving into unpredictable sees
0:34and untamed nature in a daring explorations
0:39about wilderness under the waves
0:46what they find could hold the key to save
0:49the world's oceans
0:55on
1:06you
1:11Tahiti the South Pacific
1:17a small group of scientists is on a mission with an almost impossible goal
1:22to find the last stretch is a motion but remain as they were
1:26before man
1:32leading the expedition is doctor henricks Allah
1:35a National Geographic Explorer and research scientist at Spain's National
1:39Council
1:40what I'm doing to help with day the ocean is come to places like this
1:44while pristine places explore them understand
1:48holy war and raise awareness
1:56help people what the ocean we used to be like
1:58to try to build is a global community of people who really care
2:02ocean lovers an altogether we can
2:06help with the oceans it's a challenge is met before
2:10he's helped create protected areas in the sea of cortex
2:13and the Carribean I
2:19the coral reefs have time he T are a mecca for scuba divers
2:22we perceive them to be summoned the healthiest in the world home
2:301
2:43life appears to flourish here the new thousands of fish
2:50feed on plant on and Hal GGE they are praying for numerous ocean dwellers
2:55jacks snapper and mores midsize car on a mosque
2:59on
3:03and then shocks bold
3:10the rule the food chain in a way we've come to expect
3:13an abundance of small brain sustaining a few
3:16top predators
3:19in
3:21on
3:32but enright concede that this paradise is in trouble
3:35you the really died
3:39404 f.3d big or now
3:43or the core of Paul fair are
3:46their over by Allstate human impact has taken a destructive tones
3:54way the new to an Rick surprise
3:59the Sharks here are small in size and few in number
4:03the need to find a truly pristine ecosystem
4:08andric must leave tidy and push further into unexplored territory
4:16well
4:21home
4:26this
4:35I'll he hopes that each unique grief he explores will offer a different snapshot
4:41a pristine ecosystem the No
4:45and the Sharks he's about to encounter
4:48have probably never seen humans before long
4:57in the port if pappy eighty Tahiti the quest begins
5:00the research team boards a floating laboratory
5:03called the handset Explorer
5:15the destination is 800 kilometers away
5:17the southern line Islands a remote change belonging to the country
5:22Kiribati over 30 days at sea
5:25they'll cover nearly 3,200 kilometers 0
5:30on a journey to the tiny battles Flint Bostock
5:34starbuck mauldin and Millennium
5:38five unique Islands five pieces to the puzzle
5:43my
5:48on board the team preps for its mission
5:59they are marine ecologist
6:00fisheries experts microbiologists
6:04re the team even includes a land-based scientist
6:08Explorer Mike Fahey will be surveying island ecology
6:11above the water
6:15the team will explore these unique outposts have marine life
6:19then and Rick will present the findings to the government of Kiribati
6:22and create a brand new protected area 35 hours later
6:30the ship arrives at Flint Island four kilometers long
6:34and less than a kilometer wide a tiny speck
6:37in the vast Pacific 0
6:43I'll Flint like all the islands the expedition will visit
6:47is the top with an ancient volcano ringed by st. brief
6:51and surrounded by deep oceans
7:00the repeat is so short for them ways are breaking right there
7:03so it's impossible to live on the on the way worse I'm so we'll have to do that
7:07when these
7:08on this idea protected from the on the way and Alameda
7:12lunchtime so you with their they'll divert sites around the island
7:16here reefs never fully explored
7:20I
7:25right on the driving let her know that I'll they will face a host of dangers
7:29time he is not for that vein hard it
7:36I
7:49up
7:55hundreds of kilometers from civilization if anything goes wrong
7:59they're on their own
8:03the No
8:09the
8:20the
8:31do
9:26for en route to understand how the system works
9:28he must learn what it's made of
9:37do
9:47biomass is the way to each time to fish on the raised
9:52the team already knows the average weight and size of each species
9:55say by estimating their numbers they can calculate how much
9:59each population ways dome
10:04knowing the by a massive the different species is an rika picture of how the
10:08reef
10:08functions home
10:10mom
10:14what they find at Flint Island is a surprise
10:17I'll
10:25for a reef this remote and vibrant
10:28there are far fewer shots than Enrique expected 0
10:33dial it's generally believed
10:36the rules under water follow a similar pattern to the has on landing
10:40huge numbers of plant eaters sustain a smaller number of cardinals