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Chasing Coral

So, as the animal grows, what you see is the animal is growingover the skeleton and...

So, as the animal grows, what you see is the animal is growing
over the skeleton and depositing the skeleton underneath it

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So, as the animal grows,
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what you see is the animal is growing over the skeleton
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and depositing the skeleton underneath it.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
00:13:05
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.
The plant's really essentially asleep and the animal comes active. - Chasing Coral 00:05
The plant's really essentially asleep and the animal co...
And now anything that swims by is caught - Chasing Coral 00:09
And now anything that swims by is caught
There are many different species of corals, - Chasing Coral 00:10
There are many different species of corals,
Some are very boring to look at. They look like big rocks on the bottom. - Chasing Coral 00:06
Some are very boring to look at. They look like big rocks on...
They have huge, huge branching patterns, or massive plates. - Chasing Coral 00:07
They have huge, huge branching patterns, or massive plates.
A consortium of organisms that cooperate together... - Chasing Coral 00:06
A consortium of organisms that cooperate together...
That now manifests in this massive structure - Chasing Coral 00:07
That now manifests in this massive structure
[Vevers] There's a famous reef in American Samoa called Airport Reef. - Chasing Coral 00:06
[Vevers] There's a famous reef in American Samoa calle...
We heard that there was an area where the corals were turning white. - Chasing Coral 00:07
We heard that there was an area where the corals were turnin...
Because we'd been there previously to do a survey... - Chasing Coral 00:05
Because we'd been there previously to do a survey...
To be honest, I didn't have the knowledge to know how to process it. - Chasing Coral 00:06
To be honest, I didn't have the knowledge to know how t...
[Hoegh-Guldberg] When Richard saw that white coral, - Chasing Coral 00:06
[Hoegh-Guldberg] When Richard saw that white coral,
I think I admitted to him that I thought this was far more deadly - Chasing Coral 00:08
I think I admitted to him that I thought this was far more d...
And so, what we've seen since the early 1980s - Chasing Coral 00:11
And so, what we've seen since the early 1980s
I think that was the first time that he saw the enormity of the issue. - Chasing Coral 00:06
I think that was the first time that he saw the enormity of ...
That this was a threat across the planet to coral reefs, - Chasing Coral 00:10
That this was a threat across the planet to coral reefs,
Back in the '80s, we started looking at this weird phenomenon. - Chasing Coral 00:05
Back in the '80s, we started looking at this weird phen...
Large sections of-- of reefs were turning white, - Chasing Coral 00:06
Large sections of-- of reefs were turning white,
As we did more and more experiments, - Chasing Coral 00:08
As we did more and more experiments,
And the only thing you could do in an experiment - Chasing Coral 00:10
And the only thing you could do in an experiment