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[Gates] Coral bleaching itself is a stress response
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Chasing Coral

Coral bleaching itselfis a stress response, much like a fever in humansis a stress...

[Gates] Coral bleaching itself
is a stress response, much like a fever in humans
is a stress response

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[Gates] Coral bleaching itself is a stress response,
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much like a fever in humans is a stress response.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
00:17:50
Uploaded
Oct 30, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Sustainable Films,Exposure Labs,Argent Pictures,Code Blue Foundation,EarthSense Foundation,Kendeda Fund, The

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Movie Summary

Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers, photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world.
If the temperature spikes just a little bit above their normal range... - Chasing Coral 00:05
If the temperature spikes just a little bit above their norm...
The small plants that live inside their tissues, - Chasing Coral 00:10
The small plants that live inside their tissues,
The animal essentially senses that: - Chasing Coral 00:15
The animal essentially senses that:
They try to get rid of those plants that are no longer functional... - Chasing Coral 00:05
They try to get rid of those plants that are no longer funct...
And leave behind the transparent, naked tissue. - Chasing Coral 00:06
And leave behind the transparent, naked tissue.
They've lost the very most important food source that they have. - Chasing Coral 00:06
They've lost the very most important food source that t...
[Vevers] When the coral bleaches, - Chasing Coral 00:06
[Vevers] When the coral bleaches,
[Gates] If it's a very clean white look about the coral... - Chasing Coral 00:06
[Gates] If it's a very clean white look about the cora...
It will generally not grow. It will generally not reproduce. - Chasing Coral 00:06
It will generally not grow. It will generally not reproduce.
You'll see these fuzzy microalgae. - Chasing Coral 00:05
You'll see these fuzzy microalgae.
The whole surface suddenly become much, much fuzzier to look at. - Chasing Coral 00:07
The whole surface suddenly become much, much fuzzier to look...
[people chattering] - Chasing Coral 00:07
[people chattering]
Coral bleaching is very difficult to communicate. - Chasing Coral 00:06
Coral bleaching is very difficult to communicate.
So, we need to communicate it in a different way. - Chasing Coral 00:05
So, we need to communicate it in a different way.
I was flying on a plane, and I watched a film, Chasing Ice . - Chasing Coral 00:07
I was flying on a plane, and I watched a film, Chasing Ice ...
That film was about the documentation of the disappearing glaciers. - Chasing Coral 00:05
That film was about the documentation of the disappearing gl...
And it suddenly dawned on me that we had almost identical projects. - Chasing Coral 00:07
And it suddenly dawned on me that we had almost identical pr...
So, pretty much as soon as I got off that plane, - Chasing Coral 00:07
So, pretty much as soon as I got off that plane,
The cameras are shooting every hour, - Chasing Coral 00:06
The cameras are shooting every hour,
Richard sent an e-mail, out of the blue, and he attached two photographs, - Chasing Coral 00:09
Richard sent an e-mail, out of the blue, and he attached two...