"Below the surface... the Mediterranean hides many weather disasters." "Rotting ships, temples destroyed by earthquakes ... unhappy fishermen bones, far from the port." "Today, the waves hide the poisoning of another victim:" "the sea itself." "A year after World War II ..." "Jacques Cousteau and other French sailors ... prepared to test the initial models of Aqua-Lung ... in the Rhine waters near Marseille." "Among a school of fish ..." "Divers enter a world full of aquatic life." "Here, the Lychee species, reminiscent of the tuna ... there, a streak floats in the background." "Here is a wolf-fish, shy but always curious." "The gold and black sea bass, common on the Mediterranean coast ... stroll down the coast." "For all or rather, semper varying ... the sea is full of hunters and hunted." "Strangers in this world nothing familiar ... divers are well accepted ... as members of the marine community." "They do not create much confusion among fish ... moving slowly, as tourists in a full gallery ... the caves of the sea." "In 1977, Cousteau and the Calypso divers return to Reno." "In just three decades, the seabed was desert ... like the surface of a sterile planet." "Occasionally, some sponges and gorgoniídeos ... cling tenaciously to the bottom ... but plenty disappeared." "Fantasmagóricos e tristes... the corridors of the caves, which were already full of life ..." "They are quiet and empty now." "Signs of large marine decay are everywhere." "In the old port in Marseille ... the fisherman Maurice Godin comes to fulfill a duty." "In an office near the port ... o Sr. Godin veste a toga jurídica." "Now, it is the judge of a court fishing ... started in the 15th century ... and elected by fishermen to resolve disputes between them." "Cousteau question about the current fishing conditions in the Mediterranean." "The answer is simple." "Every year, fishing is getting worse." "Other ports, have been worst information." ""In ten years we will not have fish."" ""In ten years, no fish."" ""In ten years, the marine life is over."" "The ODYSSEY OF JACQUES COUSTEAU" "Aimed at those who are fighting to preserve life on our planet" "Again, the Calypso goes from ... by the sea which the ancients called center of the Earth ... the Mediterranean." "The Black Sea, form a huge basin, with 4000 km ... and up to three kilometers deep." "There is only one portal ..." "The Strait of Gibraltar, the Pillars of Hercules." "By this narrow, which is 24 km wide ... the ancient travelers ventured out into the Atlantic." "Through it passes the only exchange of water ... between the Mediterranean and the ocean beyond." "Behind the pass, the Mediterranean is being suffocated ... by industrial and urban waste from nearby nations ... and for traffic transiting through it." "Na coberta de proa do Calypso... the crew cloth machine for candles ... like a parachute ... to experience that Cousteau prepared." "With parades propellers, the crew is a sign ... advising all ships that the Calypso can not maneuver." "Now, the Calypso is held firm in the chain that comes ... and the experience begins." "Stuck with weights and bars, not to tear ... the parachute is suspended and hoisted the mast." "Then, aided by boats to the lines not collide ... it is lowered to the sea." "Ensuring that no parachute hits the hull ... and that the cable is connected to the float ... the diver back to Calypso deck to wait." "When the parachute down ..." "Cousteau diver Falco tells the chief that will repeat a process ... discovered and used in the remote past." "On the surface of the Strait of Gibraltar, says Cousteau ... the Atlantic enters the Mediterranean, with a chain of three we ... but there is a counter in the depths ... it takes the waters of the Mediterranean to the Atlantic." "Even the Phoenicians, adventurous fishermen of the past ..." "They knew it." "When the winds failed ... and they found it difficult to go the strait to the western sea ... dipped candles in the depths ... and were brought forward by the undertow." "Now reaching nearly 260 meters deep ... the parachute submerged facing the current leaving." "As a large candle ... not in the air but on the water ... he pulls the Atlantic at a speed of two knots." "The power is there, ridding the sea of ​​their accumulated pollutants." "But with recycling rates once every 90 years ... nature is hopelessly slow." "The Mediterranean can not clean its waters with this index." "MEDITERRANEAN:" "COT OR GRAVE?" "Escorted to the east by a group of local dolphins ..." "Calypso's team follows the island of Alboran ... on the Mediterranean side of the strait ... midway between Spain and Morocco on the coast of Africa." "A small piece of land still occupied by Spain ..." "Alboran today does not look warlike." "On the contrary, it became a natural shelter." "Cleaned by the currents of the Atlantic ... she preserved immune to the Mediterranean pollutants." "When Cousteau around the recognition ... and the helicopter descends to a landing pad at the Calypso ... divers prepare to descend on the other element." "Clumsy and unwieldy in the world above the water ... their artificial devices allow them to explore another environment ... in which man does not exist ... but without which he would not live." "Again, divers cross the barrier between the elements." "Here, below the surface ... through galleries of seaweed on the move ... in full growth of the aquatic Eden ... the lights of divers reveal the inhabitants of a world that seems new." "Protected from contamination by the clean water that circulates around them ... not imagine the threats of this world, men ... which is only 45 meters away." "Here, the floating seaweed celebrate not only principles ... but the persistence of life changes." "Later, in the lounge of officials Calypso ..." "Cousteau talks about the biggest problems of the Mediterranean ... with divers Delemotte Bernard and Raymond Coll." "Because most of the Mediterranean is landlocked, says Cousteau ..." "It is especially vulnerable to the huge amount of urban debris ... that comes to him from countries with 300 million people." "Looking on a map ... it indicates areas of the Urals to Lake Victoria in Uganda." "Sudan, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Spain ..." "France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey ... the Soviet Union, the Middle East countries." "Many of these countries are quite industrialized." "The Mediterranean, he says ..." "It serves as a model for other waters, too full of debris." "Hence the urgency of the current mission of Calypso." "From above, contemplating Marseille ..." "Notre-Dame de la Garde has always been the protector of fishermen." "But today, when injured customers complain of the market ... are fish that need protection." ""What about these fish?" asks the woman." ""For me, they should all be confiscated."" "But some people do not get upset ... and throw a fishing net at the mouth of the sewer." "On weekends and holidays ... the beaches filled with sunbathers and children playing." "They seem unfazed by the warning painted on the wall." ""Polluted Beach."" "Elsewhere, some swim in the chemical escape ... a huge industrial complex." "Why, Cousteau asks the mayor of Marseille ..." "It does not tell people the whole truth about pollution and its consequences?" "Mayor of Marseille" "Because of the moral, responds the mayor ... and draws an analogy with medicine." "In France and elsewhere, the terminally ill do not know the truth." "Is a mistake says Mayor ... because only those who fight have a chance to get well." "He thinks all ..." "They should know everything about pollution ... to enter the fight to save the beloved Mediterranean." "Ports in the Great Basin ... where fishermen come back with a few fish ... the same complaints are heard in several languages." "Romania: "We had a lot of fish this year."" "Tunisia: "Look at the beach See what they did to her."." "Italy: "..." "Plastic popsicle containers Garbage bags do not understand."" "Director of Pollution Laboratory" "Director of the Nice Pollution Laboratory, Dr. Maurice Aubert ... tells Cousteau on the incidence of mercury poisoning ... something like what happened in Minamata, Japan." "Because fishermen usually eat more seafood than most ... they are especially vulnerable." "Recent research in Sardinia revealed ... nearly 12 members of one family ..." "They showed symptoms of Minamata disease." ""See Naples and die" ..." "It is what is often said about the panoramic beauty of a city ... long honored in love songs and honeymoon honeymoon photos." "But a closer look can be discouraging." "In the bustling harbor of floating debris and water pollution." "Them also suspended boats floating barrels ... are banks of mussels for sale." "They are that the Italian health authorities ..." "They blame the frightening 1973 cholera epidemic." "Starting in Naples, cases of the disease, which causes rapid and fatal dehydration ... soon spread north to Milan, and to the east, to the Adriatic coast." "While police cleaned the polluted banks ... and medical agencies struggled to reverse an epidemic ... more than 20 people have been fatal victims of it." "Abruptly aware of the dangers of pollution ..." "Italian citizens thronged the health centers ... to be vaccinated against the threatening bacteria." "But fear was not in memory." "Today, the basic threats have not diminished, but increased." "A bordo do Calypso, Cousteau e Falco... analyze satellite photos of the increasing pollution." "In light-colored water coming out of the delta, says Cousteau ... the photos reveal how the rivers bring sediment and pollution to the coast." "The Po River, the industrial northern Italy ..." "It has similar standards when it reaches the Atlantic." "In another picture, the Danube and its tributaries ... play pollution eddies in the Black Sea." "Collecting urban and industrial waste and placing it in the sea ... rivers run like the kidneys of the continent." "Closer to the ground ..." "Cousteau flies the Danube Delta in Romania ... where the south branch of the river enters the Black Sea." "While float in one of the most industrialized regions of the Earth ... the river and its marshes appear to be falsely idyllic ... the perfect location for a wildlife sanctuary." "Here, away from the satellites circling about them ..." "Romanian fishermen still fish the old fashioned way ... patients are men pulling the sea networks." "But fishing is not the same." "Heavier and larger fish are gone." "Even sardines and anchovies are increasingly scarce." "Near the coast of Romania, on the Black Sea ..." "Calypso is preparing to test the local waters for a search." "Here, a tube samples is lowered to the standard depth of four meters ... carefully to avoid contamination of Calypso." "A slide closes the tube samples ... which is brought back to the surface." "Its content is carefully kept in pots proof of contamination ... to be sent to the laboratory." "For five months, the Calypso runs along the Mediterranean ... not only taking samples of water, but of many species ... sedimentation as the sea floor, handle here for a diver." "At the behest of Committees ... and also from various countries of the Mediterranean ..." "Calypso's team conducts various research programs ... for study and further analysis." "Of the samples, as drawn sludge background ... biologists can analyze the changing nature ... of all life, or lack of life found." "In many critical areas ... the condition and abundance of animals and plants submerged ..." "It is recorded in a continuous report." "Trammels are used to bring the plankton ... tiny organisms that absorb and concentrate toxins ... and are the lowest link in the food chain up ... from the smallest to the largest marine animal ... and coming to the man." "Saved for later laboratory analysis ..." "The samples are protected by a chemical decomposition of the additive." "The underwater mobile camera, known as Troika ..." "It is lowered to record continuous images showing ... seabed conditions." "But a lot of pollution of the Mediterranean ..." "It is as visible as the trail left by Calypso ... the foam layer, near the beach." "The causes are many." "The large number of complex and industrial plants ... not concentrated north side do mar ... mainly in Spain, France, Italy and Greece ... urban centers, sometimes far from the sea ... the annual arrival of tourists and visitors ... freighters and oil tanks, passing by the sea." "The air and water ... until the pipes that carry chemical waste by the fund ... are some of the sources who put a lot of debris and poison the sea." "By one estimate, there are 1,000 million tons ... industrial and household waste not recycled every year." "Even to evaluate these waters, divers have an outfit ... that prevents any contact with the infected water." "They say that long ago ..." "Prometheus brought fire stolen from the gods to man." "It was a dangerous gift." "Today, the big column of smoke above the petrochemical complex ..." "Fos-sur-Mer in the south of France ..." "It is not only a hope of liberation of man ... but also a warning of their likely cost." "Again, aboard the Calypso, divers prepare." "With gloves and wearing clothes with protection ... they go into the dark waters to know what kind of life survived." "Find a water desert ... which extends from the coast where the densest pollution." "Occasionally are signs of Posidonia lifeless." "They have been nesting and shelter sites for several fish." "Today, as the crab found occasionally or other invasive ... they struggle to survive in the mud ... which is like a hand choking everything around." "Perhaps, with time, some species resistant to pollution ... still live here." "But with the demise of the multiplicity of species ... life will have sunk ... nature will have lost a lot of options to form new lives and persist." "The murky waters, the decay of vision and death ..." "It remains only a litany of lost life ... of creatures here are gone ... and whose numbers decrease, sometimes very quickly ... elsewhere in the Mediterranean." "The big fish of the open sea ... marlin, swordfish, blue fin tuna of the ... the fish from the rocky coast, large and small groupers ... croaker, mullet, Lychee." "The only mammal originating in the Mediterranean, the monk seal." "Red corals, sponges ... gorgoniídeos, oceanic Posidonia." "In more and more places, there is only emptiness." "As visitors coming from a world of darkness ... divers receive nozzles from dirt ... before returning to the world up here." "While deserts are scattered along the seabed ... a new presence stain parts of the sea still alive." "The gas burned residue refinery seaside ... appearing now in the Mediterranean." "Often expelled from their natural habitat ... fish find shelter under the triangular platforms ... unaware of the existence of the oil film that prevents vital exchange ... between atmospheric gases and the sea." "There were no major spills ... but much of the film was caused by tankers ..." "They are playing out around half a million tonnes of oil residues ... each year in the Mediterranean." "Of nuclear power plants, such as Vandellós, Spain ... has a different threat ..." "Radioactivity traces and a rise in water temperature ... the mouth of their cooling systems." "Dr. Antonio Ballester of the Fisheries Research Institute in Barcelona ... think, today, the water temperature in the bay ..." "It reaches almost 25 degrees Celsius." "But, as he explains to Albert Falco ... when the plant shuts down for repairs or for other reasons ... the water soon cools." "Physiological effects on marine life are obvious." "The successive oscillation makes the unacceptable water ... either for cold water fish, or for semi-tropical species." "The color and appearance of the water, says Dr. Ballester ... reveals another threat in pollutants dropped by the plant ..." "Detergents and toxic compounds, such as sulfa ... or chloride, used to prevent mussels from clogging the pipes." "Despite the frequent seizure ... in the hope that the problems are resolved ... other Mediterranean countries are also planning nuclear plants." "But the fleet of fishermen anchored in a village ... brings a decaying sea fishing." "And the men who drew their living from the sea ..." "It has a less optimistic view of the benefits of nuclear energy." "Some of them shared concerns with Raymond Coll, the Calypso." "A man says the area, formerly called El Torn ... around the plant ..." "It was once one of his best fishing spots." "Used to go there to fish large sardines ... but now there is no sardines there." "They can only catch small fish ... which decompose three hours after being caught." "Other species, such as sea bass and skate, disappeared completely." "The water near the plant was analyzed, says another fisherman ... but the results should be negative for them ... because they were not announced." "Another man says he does not know how long the radioactive debris ..." "They remain active in the water." "It is a very bad world we leave to our children, she says." "At sea surrounded itself, there is little high and low ... but the land comes another wave ... the growing human influence ... that originated an endless wall of overcrowded dwellings ... always next to a strip of sand." "Few buildings have adequate sewage treatment ... and often dump untreated waste into the sea ... straight to bathers." "On the beach, we see a panorama of burned people ... of the 100 million tourists ... who come to the Mediterranean annually." "And near the sea, as well explored and full of buildings ... the buildings follow." "Extensions of coastal cities and complex resorts ... thousands of marinas form sheltered moorings ... in the Mediterranean area." "There, are the hundreds of thousands of vessels ... perhaps even a major source of oil and other pollutants ... than their own tankers." "Fragile as a dream in the waters ..." "Venice was sinking in your pond ... until the authorities restored the groundwater pumping." "Now as an older version of Venus by Botticelli ... she is stirring up the ocean." "Venice has always been protected against attacks ... the waters where he now plays his garbage ... but pollution threatens to erode the stones of its foundation." "O ecologista, Dr. Renato Rismondo... describes the problem to William McDonald, the Calypso." "The houses play the waters ... sewage directly into these channels." "And this causes the algae proliferate." "One can see population growth of algae near the palace in the channel ... and everywhere the pond." "This indicates the degree of pollution." "But not only household waste ... which leaves Venice and its buildings in danger." "Como o Dr. Valentino Fossato relata a Cousteau... the industry also to blame." "Institute of Marine Biology, Venice" "As a city under siege, the old Venice is surrounded by this." "Close to the main area of ​​your big pond ..." "They are industrial plants and complexes." "And it is near these sites, says Dr. Fossato ... which are the major pollution concentrations ... especially hydrocarbons." "Venice survived a long history and violent." "Today, chemical contaminants are thrown in its basin." "The question is:" "Venice will survive this?" "Further south, crossing the Mediterranean ... there is clear evidence that man can use and marine resources ... without harming them or destroy them." "At Lake El Biban, Tunisia until the cats are satisfied." "Attached to the Mediterranean ..." "El Biban also ensures inventory full of fish ... after centuries of work on the water ... through fixed networks, placed in the lake." "Passing through the entrance of the Zodiac ... divers of Calypso think a little corrupt world ... by modern industrial society." "Always with fish without contamination and cleaned by a submerged chain ... whose strength surprises divers ... the clean waters of El Biban are filled with a fishing population." "Close to the divers, schools of fish swim, curious ... declining elsewhere in the Mediterranean." "Until the black croaker, now rare in other parts of the sea ..." "It is found in abundance here." "But now the Calypso team follows the migration of flamingos ... the lake of Tunisia." "There, surrounded by large birds ... the ruins of an ancient fortress are parallel to ruin the lake." "A traditional food source of Tunisia ... whose industry now poisons ... the lake is stained with algae that choke marine life." "The bottom is covered with a plague of herbs ... that does not promote life, but the harm." "Algae growth is as areas ... that motorized or oar, the lake is difficult to pass." "But with all this growth ... cancer algae do not bring benefits to man." "Biologist M. Belkhir, Tunisia, explains." "These algae, says Mr. Belkhir ..." "They contain very high concentrations of mercury and lead." "Consequently, the plant is too dangerous for consumption ... and can not be used either as fertilizer." "Near the lake, workers teams fight ... to keep algae under control, at least apparently." "But it is an endless task and perhaps a losing battle." "To clean the lake and restore it, it takes more drastic measures ... to eliminate the discharge of pollutants that perpetuates the curse." "Aboard the Calypso, the sample program follows." "Again, observed by Cousteau, a small claw down ... to bring samples of bottom sediments." "Wrapped in aluminum foil ... the pellet, such as water pots other samples ..." "It will be sent to the laboratory." "But after five months sailing across the Mediterranean ... after taking thousands of samples ... interviewing hundreds of fishermen, scientists ... public officials, doctors and businessmen ..." "Calypso team mission is coming to an end." "With most of the field work done ..." "I return to the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco and their laboratories ... to know that demonstrate the samples taken." "Founded in 1910 by Albert I of Monaco ... the museum has since been a center ... multinational study of the oceans ... and it is now associated with Radioactivity Laboratory Navy." "Here, I can follow the progress of scientists ... by submitting the samples to analytical testing." "By complex procedures ... the presence of heavy metals ... as mercury, copper or cadmium ... de pesticidas e PCBs..." "They are accurately measured in several samples ... sea ​​water and sediment collected at various depths." "For each location where samples were taken ... scientists can determine how far and how much pollution has spread." "But when the evidence shown by the instruments are analyzed ... we see that pollution, although serious ..." "It is not responsible for the degree of damage ... caused to the underwater environment." "Clearly, mechanical action ... generally underestimated ... should be deadly factors in the deterioration of the Mediterranean." "Among these factors are the impact of the excavator." "It is known that the sea erodes the earth ... but today, especially in crowded areas ... is the land that invades the sea." "Throughout the Mediterranean ... roads, airports, industrial estates ... housing buildings, marinas and ports facilities ... invade the sea at its most vulnerable point ... the shallow and narrow coastal areas ... that from semper ... served as natural habitat ... and spawning grounds of marine life." "As an underwater dust storm ... fine sediment to the coast that goes ..." "It covers all living things there with a suffocating cloud." "It is an impartial catastrophe ... which does not distinguish between species." "Manipulating the landscape according to their needs ... as in the case of the Durance, France ... diverted to cool a nuclear power plant ... man discovers that the engineering of nature ..." "It was far superior to yours." "Today, a freshwater varying current in a saltwater lagoon ..." "It changes both the salinity that no fish survive." "Talking to Cousteau ..." "Mayor Deferre agree that the channel had bad effects." "Now, he says, the water in the pond is an undefined environment ... not doce, not Salgado." "But sometimes, those who harm the sea ... are the fishermen themselves." "Depicting some activities that threaten the lives ... a fisherman of Naples fault too ... illegal and unrestricted practice of dynamite fishing ... that kills or stuns the marine life in a huge radius." "He also criticizes some good fishing practices ... fishing not by necessity, but for the honor of killing the biggest fish ... as this Lancers fishing competition on the coast of Italy." "Beneath the surface, many big fish ..." "They do not recognize the divers as enemies." "Thus, their natural curiosity ... can leave them at the perfect angle Spears divers." "When participants bring their bigger fish to win trophies ..." "They are also bringing the most useful fish ... for spawning and reproduction of the species." "As a white shadow in the background, another threat appears ... the shallow water longline." "Illegal in some Mediterranean countries ... it moves the bottom contours ... ending the oceanic Posidonia ... and other natural plants, which are fish spawning areas." "In North Africa, a former fisherman longline ..." "He says the network will end up with marine life." "Always on the go ... the nets down to catch the smaller fish, which will be thrown away." "Legal in some countries, illegal in others ... fishing call with lamp is widely practiced." "Using lamps to attract fish to the boat, where they are caught ... sometimes the fishermen bring abundant fishing." "But with the decline in larger fish ... most of fishing is composed of smaller fish ... for which the market is limited." "To the delight of many seabirds ... large amounts of smaller fish are thrown back into the sea." "But among the fishermen, the hurt is constant." "Although best enxerguem the causes close to them ... everyone knows that there is something very wrong in this." "The problem is not solved ..." " But it is resolving." "Yes." " They are solving." "It is resolving very fast." "While ordinary men looking out to sea with anger and dismay ... committees like this take on a less urgent tone." "The interests of science and industry are not incompatible, they say." "The problems have not been solved, but they are being." "Often, the same old platitudes are repeated." "Balanced between yes and no ... men use a language full of subterfuge ... and adopt the deferral policy." "Here in Venice, we are an example ... the need for this partnership ... between governmental communities, scientific ... industrial, fisheries and urban." "All need to engage." "In Marseille, the members of fishermen's court ..." "They are not evasive about the problems suffered Sea." "Cousteau would say if asked by their children to be fishermen ... all responded quickly and vehemently: "No, never"." "But in an extra comment ..." "Godin reminds the judge that this was the way of life of all ... since the beginning." "For their sake, and all men ... he hopes that one day their children are also fishermen." "So anxious and bellicose voices are silent." "Cousteau entered na sua saucer ... and preparing to descend into a pristine part of the sea." "Again, I go down in the blue sea water." "The deep, come in my way the "fans of the sea" ... gorgoniídeos sets." "Since ancient times ... the restless men seek renewal in the desert and uninhabited places." "Today, in the loneliness of the sea ... man must create sanctuaries against himself." "The Mediterranean was once called mare nostrum, "our sea"." "Around them, the men built temples and markets of the past ... that formed our beliefs." "Here, unfortunately, a century to another ... countries at war have learned that our ocean ..." "It was the responsibility of all." "Today, we are discovering that our sea means more ... we must protect the lives not only arrogant charity or compassion." "In fact, fish are partners, crabs ..." "Snails and vegetation growing where you do not even know." "Our life depends on them." "Survival depends on them ours."