- About Coral -
"A coral is made up of thousands of small structures called polyps, each polyp is a round mouth surrounded by tentacles that can bond together, on a single animal, to gather millions of them, and their There are small plants and micro algae in the tissue, there are one million per square centimeter. The plants living in its body carry out photosynthesis, and the coral polyps obtain nutrients from it. Basically, there is a food factory in the body. As the animal grows, you You will see the animals grow out of the bones and store the bones underneath. They photosynthesize during the day, and at night the plants go dormant, the animals wake up, and the polyps stretch out their tentacles. Any creature that swims past will be caught by the stinging cells at the tips of these tentacles. "
- About albino -
"Coral bleaching is a stress response, if the temperature is a little higher than the normal range, the coral will begin to bleach, and the ability of the small plants in them to photosynthesize and provide nutrients to the animals is affected, and then the animals are aware of the body. These plants are not functioning, they will find ways to leave these non-functioning plants, leaving transparent bare tissue, so they lose their most important food source. The white part is the bare coral skeleton, if the coral looks very white and clean, It's still alive, it's going to stop growing and reproducing, and then it's probably dead, and if you see hairy microalgae, it means the coral is dead."
There are three impressive scenes in the film:
One is that when the sea temperature rises, corals will produce chemical sunscreens to protect themselves from the heat, and then they will show a dazzling fluorescent color - although it looks very beautiful, it is the last call for help before the coral dies.
The second is that when the system malfunctions all relying on manual diving to find a point to shoot, the diver faces the feeling of coral death: "You are in the water, sitting there for a month, every day you see things around you that you saw yesterday, but you die today... ...very distressing."
"You forget what it looked like at the beginning. When you go back to watch it one day in the future, sitting there watching it is not real at all, you simply can't accept it."
The third is that the project invites people living by the sea around the world to photograph the coral conditions in their own backyards. It turns out that in places we cannot see, corals are dying every day.
Finally, there is a comparison picture taken by the photographer, which can be said to be shocking:
Below is an excerpt from the documentary's official website for guidance on what we can do. This note may be one of the things I can do.
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