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Chasing Coral

This coral grows at around a centimeter and a half per year, every year, right up until...

This coral grows at around a centimeter and a half per year, every year, right up until 1998, where you start to see the signature
of a coral bleaching event

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This coral grows at around
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a centimeter and a half per year,
00:00:05.296 --> 00:00:07.882
every year, right up until 1998,
00:00:07.965 --> 00:00:12.999
where you start to see the signature of a coral bleaching event.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
14
Timestamp in Movie
00:48:49
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.
[Marshall] By tracking back in time, by looking at the history of the reef, - Chasing Coral 00:09
[Marshall] By tracking back in time, by looking at the hist...
The cause is, unequivocally, global climate change, - Chasing Coral 00:08
The cause is, unequivocally, global climate change,
[Hoegh-Guldberg] I think a lot of people don't realize climate change is happening - Chasing Coral 00:11
[Hoegh-Guldberg] I think a lot of people don't realize...
When you burn fossil fuel... that's burning oil, gas or coal... - Chasing Coral 00:06
When you burn fossil fuel... that's burning oil, gas or...
Carbon dioxide has the property that it's able to trap heat. - Chasing Coral 00:06
Carbon dioxide has the property that it's able to trap ...
So, the more you have in the atmosphere, - Chasing Coral 00:08
So, the more you have in the atmosphere,
What people don't know is that 93% - Chasing Coral 00:08
What people don't know is that 93%
If the oceans weren't doing this job of absorbing the heat, - Chasing Coral 00:10
If the oceans weren't doing this job of absorbing the h...
There are rates of change going on in tropical oceans, - Chasing Coral 00:07
There are rates of change going on in tropical oceans,
It means that coral reefs are a likely casualty - Chasing Coral 00:08
It means that coral reefs are a likely casualty
At that point in time, people weren't quite ready for that, - Chasing Coral 00:10
At that point in time, people weren't quite ready for t...
[Marshall] He was ridiculed for this, for being an alarmist. - Chasing Coral 00:05
[Marshall] He was ridiculed for this, for being an alarmist...
But over time he's been proved right, time and time again. - Chasing Coral 00:07
But over time he's been proved right, time and time aga...
That's why I came here when I was 18 to this island - Chasing Coral 00:06
That's why I came here when I was 18 to this island
It wasn't because I thought it was gonna disappear - Chasing Coral 00:08
It wasn't because I thought it was gonna disappear
It's unfortunate that I can't look at this thing - Chasing Coral 00:08
It's unfortunate that I can't look at this thing
This wonderful thing, this thing that's been around for a very long time... - Chasing Coral 00:05
This wonderful thing, this thing that's been around for...
[Rago] Storms and the weather is really the controlling factor right now. - Chasing Coral 00:05
[Rago] Storms and the weather is really the controlling fac...
The wind and the storms continue rolling through, - Chasing Coral 00:10
The wind and the storms continue rolling through,
[thunder rumbling] - Chasing Coral 00:13
[thunder rumbling]