Chasing Coral
FILM SCREENING.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025. 7 pm, Sechelt Arts Centre
Free admission – donations always appreciated
1h 33m, 2019. Exposure Labs, a film and impact production company.
A team of divers, photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why corals are vanishing at an unprecedented rate.
This film is the product of 500+ hours of underwater footage, coral bleaching submissions from volunteers in 30 countries, and support from more than 500 people in various locations around the world.
“When our journey began, we knew that if we could capture visual evidence of coral bleaching, we could powerfully reveal the phenomenon. Now it’s time to connect that story to action. Find out more about how you can get involved in bringing this story above the waves.”
Watch the trailer
Additional Resources
- Adapting to Coral bleaching and disease. Bonaire Reef Renewal.
- Giving Coral Reefs a Future. Secore International. Creating and sharing the tools and technologies to sustainably restore coral reefs worldwide.
Some of the causes of coral loss
- Bleaching related to climate change and warming ocean waters.-Stoney coral tissue wasting disease. (Is this related to dumping from the cruise ship industry?)
- Catastrophic damage from increasingly violent and frequent hurricanes and cyclones.
- Sedimentation and run-off from near land human activity.
- Shading from large masses of sargassum weed, (proliferation of sargassum is likely fed by artificial nutrient feeds from land based human activity).