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Troubled Waters
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Troubled Waters

47 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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The oceans cover 71 percent of the earth's surface and produce much of its oxygen, yet this film argues they are being pushed toward collapse by the species that depends on them most. Underwater footage moves from coral reefs to open ocean, showing the scale of marine life still down there before turning to the pressures on it: plastic and chemical pollution, warming and acidifying water, and fishing fleets stripping stocks faster than they can recover. Scientists and researchers appear throughout to explain what over-fishing and bycatch actually do to a food web, and how climate change compounds damage that pollution alone would already cause. The film treats these as connected problems rather than separate headlines, tracing how a warmer, more acidic, more crowded ocean strains everything from plankton to apex predators. It closes on the practical question of what happens to human food supplies and coastlines if current trends continue, without pretending the answer is simple or the damage is already reversible.