Hello kids! Won't it be great if we could just pack our
bags and keep flying from place to place? Hey, but you can't do that because
you don't have wings like me! Oh yes, you're right but there's
one major difference.. ..Between you and my friends out there! And that is? You're a Migratory bird, silly! Oops, why didn't that strike me? Doesn't matter! You go take your flight. And I'll tell my friends all
about birds like you! Aww! I feel so special, Dr. Binocs! Come friends, let's know more
about Migratory birds.
Zoom in! Migratory birds are those birds that
travel from one place to another.. ..At regular intervals over long distances. And they migrate to escape the cold
harsh winter weather.. ..In search of food and a warm cozy shelter.
There are various types of Migratory birds. Resident Birds! Pigeons and Doves are a good examples. These birds just don't migrate. They are able to find food and
warm shelter where they are staying.
We might not travel a lot,
Dr. Binocs but we do spread love.. ..All around, from place to place! Short Distant Migrants. Robins are short distant migrants.
As the name suggests, these
birds move only a short distance.. ..From lower elevations to mountain side. Hey, but don't you mistake
me for a nightingale.. ..I might look like one but I am not.
Okay? Oh, my friends won't! They are very
smart, aren't you guys? Medium Distant Migrants. These birds travel over distances
that cover several states. They don't really travel a lot but not
that they won't travel less.. ..Isn't it Mr.
Blue Jay? You seem to know me quite well, Dr. Binocs. But there's one more secret about me!
You wanna know? Sure, tell us! We are all waiting! I am quite mischevious, Dr. Binocs,
because I hunt more than I can eat! Long Distant Migrants.
These birds travel typically from
United States and Canada.. ..To wintering grounds in Central and
South America. The Artic Tern is an example
of Long Distance migrants. And I am the record holder for covering the
longest distance of 44,000 miles! Oh my! That's huge! Just to let you know, the circumference
of the Earth..
..Is approximately 29,000 miles! So imagine how much these birds travel! Trivia Time! Before migrating, many birds
enter a state of Hyperphagia.. ..Where the hormone levels compel them to
drastically increase their body weight.. ..To store fat to use as
energy while traveling. And some birds also have the ability to
sense the Earth's Magnetic field..
..To help them navigate! So I need to travel now. Wait till I come back next! Tune in next time for more fun facts! This is me Fly... Zooming out!
Bye..
Coming up, Jonathan dives into the spooky
dark waters of a river in search of giant Megalodon shark teeth! Welcome to Jonathan Birds Blue World! The Great White Shark is one of the most fearsome
predators in the sea. Reaching the size of a large car, the Great
White is a formidable shark. But a few million years ago, there was a much
larger, much more powerful shark roaming the worlds oceans: the Megalodon. A present day Great White shark reaches 21
feet in lengththats about 7 meters.
It dwarfs a human. But the Megalodon would dwarf a Great White. Experts think they reached 20 meters! Which would make them the largest sharks of
all time. In the distant past when the Earth was hotter
than it is today and the sea levels were higher, Megalodon roamed the oceans feeding on whales.
Like modern sharks, they had a never-ending
supply of teeth. When they chomped a whale, teeth would break
off and sink down to the mud in the sea floor. Buried in mud under pressure, the teeth slowly
turned into fossils as minerals impregnated them. As the planet cooled down, sea levels fell.
Megalodon went extinct. As the oceans receded, untold millions of
fossilized shark teeth in the sediment washed into rivers. This particular riverthe Cooper River in
South Carolina--is one of the worlds most famous places to find Megalodon teeth. Cameraman Tim, field producer Al Bozza and
I fly to Charleston, where the Cooper River empties into the ocean.
Were here to meet Alan Devier, a world
authority on finding fossilized shark teeth. Just after sunrise, Alan is putting his boat
in the water at the local boat ramp. Were on a double missionto make a segment
about finding fossil Megalodon teeth, but hopefully also to find some of our own! The boat is a little cramped with all our
camera and scuba gear, but well make it work. We have a 30 minute run to the dive site,
so I use the opportunity to ask Alan about shark tooth diving.
The Meg tooth is the top collected fossil
in the world. If you go on eBay, theres literally thousands
of them for sale. Why do people collect these things? Something about a giant shark I think, and
being able to hold that tooth in your hand. You figure ten feet of shark for every inch
of tooth, so a six inch tooth would have been a shark the size of a school bus.
Thats almost hard to wrap your head around. You never know what you are going to find,
from fossils to artifacts. You find bottles from the early 1700s here,
pipe stems, arrow heads, spear points. Its like an Easter egg hunt with lots more
than Easter eggs.
Its an adventure, Ill say that. I love it. Its my passion. As we cruise through the chocolate brown water,
I cant help but wonder how Im going to dive in this river.
So Alan, whats the diving like? What are we going to do today? Were going to anchor and let you guys go
down the anchor line. Hopefully well have great vizwhich is
two feet maybe. Two feet is great viz? Two feet is great. Three feet is marvelous! Well get you to wear as much weight as
you can lift safely.
That will definitely help with the current,
and give you a screwdriver to use as a spike to stab into the ground to help pull yourself
forward. And try to put you on some good gravel beds
that have a lot of teeth in them. As we head upstream and the river gets narrower,
Im noticing not just the color of the water, but the speed of the water. I dont think I have enough hands to hold
my big camera, a screwdriver, a light and look for fossils at the same time! I need a gear reduction plan.
This is what I have been reduced to. Ive been shooting with a $50,000 RED, Ive
shot with 70mm IMAX cameras and on this shoot, Im shooting with a GoProwith a handle
though! It has a handle, so its going to be really
steady I hope . And youve got a viewfinder. Yeah, its got a viewfinder! Its not just totally shooting blind.
Cameraman Tim has decided to go hands-free. This is Cameraman Tim with the dorkiest, the
dorkiest-looking camera setup ever. Turn your head to the side. The mask chin strap, made from a mask strap.
Any port in a storm. Alan throws the anchor and we are ready for
some river diving! With a few last minute pointers, our team
is ready to suit up, and hit the water. I have to admit, Im feeling pretty nervous. This might be the murkiest water I have ever
been diving in.
This one makes me go right straight to the
bottom like a brick. Andits slimming! Whew, a little hot butoh yeah that light
is awesome. Ive got my light for hands-free fossil
hunting. And then Ive got this implementkind
of a rake thing, not only for raking but also for holding on, its my anchor.
Its like pea soup! I literally cant see my feet. I pull myself down the anchor line against
the current. Its really hard work. The water is brownish yellow and it gets darker
with every pull on the rope.
I cant see the surface or the bottom. The rope is my only reference. It doesnt take long to reach the anchor. Down here, its pitch black.
If I turn my light off, I cant see anything. Im waiting here for Cameraman Tim. Tim arrives shortly and we set off up stream
to find the gravel bed where the shark teeth are supposed to be. We can barely see each other! Were using old screwdrivers to anchor ourselves
into the bottom and crawl against the flow of the river.
We finally reach the gravel bed and start
looking for teeth. I see a lot of rocks, and some shells, but
so far no sharks teeth. But Im not really sure what to look for. Tim and I need to stay within an arms reach
distance or we will lose each other in the murk.
The diving is really spooky. When I see my first tooth, I realize that
they are pretty obvious. There it is! Half a tooth sitting right on the bottom! I put it in my bag and continue on. Bolstered by my newfound success, I decide
to try the rake.
But it really doesnt help at all. The nice thing about the current is the fact
that it will take away any mess I make. So I try waving the top layer away with my
hand. It works much better than the rake.
Soon I find another tooth fragment. Its half a tooth, split right down the
middle. After an hour of searching for teeth, Tim
and I surface. Neither of us found anything really spectacular,
but we got a feel for the process and got used to working in the current and limited
visibility.
Its so nice to see the sun when we surface! So this is kind of an unusual style of diving. First of all, the current is ripping. Were in a river and so the water is really
moving. So right now I have to hold this rope just
to stay by the side of the boat.
If I let go, Ill go sailing away. Then the next thing is that the water is kind
of like chocolate milk. You cantheres my fin. Heres my fin.
And as you put it underwater, you will notice
that it very quickly goes out of sight. And the fact is that I cant even see my
foot underwater. So, I would say the viz is aboutlet me
put my hand outI can just see my hand that far away. Its really murky! So when you are looking for fossils, this
light is really important because its right focused on the bottom and you have to look
at the bottom from, like, less than a foot away.
You just have your face jammed right up on
the bottom looking for the fossils. Its challenging! But its rewarding! Soon we are off to another spot in a different
part of the river. Everywhere we look, its beautiful. Next we suit up for another dive.
Ready? OK, here we go! Yeah! Its time to descend back down into the
darkness and get serious about finding some shark teeth! Uh oh, I need my lights! Its hard to believe that the visibility
could be any worse than it was at the last spot, but its much worse here! The visibility is measured in inches. Tim and I try to communicate by talking because
we cant see each others hand signals! Talking isnt working either! The good news is that Alan put us right on
an excellent gravel bed and this spot looks very promising for fossils. I immediately find a small but complete tooth. And then another.
They are not buried but sitting right on top. As the current moves silt downstream, new
fossils are always being uncovered. Im using Alans lucky pink catch bag
with the Velcro closure so I wont lose my precious stash! I find another half tooth. It has perfect serrations.
I have to wonder. Did this tooth break like this when the shark
lost it? Or did it break later, and the fossil formed
like this? Or did the fossil form and then break in half? We will never know. In the bag it goes. As I wave some silt away, I find a perfect
specimen! Its not huge and it has marine growth that
I can clean off, but this is great tooth! In the bag! Fossil hunting requires patience.
But its actually really peaceful and relaxing
to just work my way slowly and methodically over the gravel bed. The best technique is to work a grid pattern
so you cover every bit of the bed. And my patience pays off with a really big
tooth in perfect condition! This one is at least four, maybe even five
inches. Nowhere near the size of the biggest one Alan
has ever found, which was 6-3/4 inches! When I put this tooth in the bag, I double
check to make sure that Velcro is closed! I would cry if I lost this tooth! Alan, this was a great spot! I finally got something! Awesome! It has weight to it! Yeah! Oh wow! Oh nice! Huh? Whos the man? Thats awesome! I legitimately found those! We didnt even fake it! Thats great! Theyre not in the greatest shape.
Oh this one is. Which one? This one. Oh thats nice, Its got some barnacle
action. Its got some serrations too.
Thats a really cool position too. In the gravel? You must have been in a different gravel patch
than me. No, I was just there first! Wow! So I think someone likes this spot. The rake is just like 95% for holding on to
the bottom.
I didnt really rake that much. We find more than just Megalodon teeth. In fact there are shark teeth even older than
that. So Alan, what did you say this species of
shark was? Angustidens.
And thats pre-Megalodon? Two generations. And theres Chubb, which is one generation,
like the father to the Meg. And Angustidens which is like the grandfather
to the Meg. And you can tell that because of these little? Because of the cusps.
These cusps on the side. Wow, so that puts this at how old are we talking
on this tooth? Probably 20 million plus. Twenty million years old! Twenty MILLION years old! Look at that! And the serrations are still sharp! Wow, thats awesome. Nice find Al.
Thats nice. Thank you. And the three of these were clumped together
on the bottom. So were these three.
You know, I found the first one and I said
Oh, maybe there are some more around here! And so I just looked.. Its shows you this area hadnt been picked
over for you to find them in clusters like that. This ones still got a little bit of serration
on it. Underwater, I focused on digging, but back
on the boat I can really take some time to check out all the teeth I found, and its
really exciting, like finding them again.
So this ones over four inches. See the measurements on the bag? Yuh, oh so thats how you measure them. Well, that gives you a ballpark. Its not perfect because its a stretchy
bag.
Its over four, ha ha! Got one over four. This ones almost four. Well maybe if you measure the other side,
its over four. There we go! Ha! Always measure the longest side! Wait! This ones over four.
Ive got three of them over 4. On one dive! Thats pretty cool! In two days of diving with Alan on the Cooper
River, I find dozens of teeth, including three that are larger than four inches and one that
is larger than five. Not too bad for my first time fossil hunting. The Cooper River has been an awesome experience.
The diving is challenging. The visibility is bad. The current is a constant concern. But when you get on a prime gravel bed and
you start finding teeth, none of that matters.
The hunt for the next tooth is addictive. Sometimes the blue world isnt very blue
at all. But I cant wait to come back and do it
again!.
This time on Jonathan Birds Blue World,
Jonathan visits a submerged Mayan burial ground! Hi, Im Jonathan Bird and welcome to my
world! 66 Million years ago, an enormous asteroid
tumbled through space. Travelling ten times the speed of a rifle bullet, this celestial
missile was on a direct collision course with Earth. It smashed into Earth with such force that
it triggered powerful earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The impact threw a cloud of dust
into the atmosphere, cooling the planet and killing the dinosaurs.
The impact crater is located just north of
the Yucatan peninsula, in what is now Mexico. Around the outer ring of the crater, cracks
formed in the limestone, allowing groundwater to flow through, eroding into caves. When
a cave ceiling gets too thin and falls in, you get what is known as a cenote. The word
cenote was derived from the Mayan word tsonot meaning sacred well--A source of water,
and an entrance to the caves.
Fast forward to 2,000 years ago, the Maya
civilization dominated central America. They built their cities near the cenotes so they
had access to fresh water from what are essentially super clean underground rivers. Thanks to that asteroid, there are more cenotes
in this area than anyplace else in the world--thousands of them running along the rim of the ancient
crater. Its an incredible place for some underwater exploration! To begin our adventure, Cameraman Todd and
I fly down to Merida, Mexicoa city surrounded by thousands of mostly unexplored cenotes.
Our first stop, Freedom Divers, where I meet
owner Jeff Shaw, my host for underwater exploration. Jeff?
Jonathan! Hey, nice to meet you man! Nice to meet you!
Welcome to Merida! Thanks, ready to do some diving?
Lets go hit some cenotes! All right, lets go! We pile all our gear into Jeffs pickup
truck and drive south. We stop along the way, to pick up his friend Aaron Diaz, a local
cave diving expert, and a few of his local guidesElmer, Felipe and Carlos. We drive out into the bush and the road slowly
turns into barely more than a path.
Eventually the guides get out and use machetes
to clear the brush for the truck. At last we reach cenote Sha-An and the guides
start setting up. Looking inside the cenote, I can tell you this, I would not want to fall
in there by accident. The surface of the water is 50 feet down and the only way out would
be climbing a tree root! But its absolutely breathtaking.
This is going to be an adventure! Elmer, Felipe and Carlos are rigging some
ropes so that we can rappel down to the water. Meanwhile, the dive team is getting ready.
This is a full cave dive, with all the gear that requires, plus something extra. This is one of the unique pieces of gear we
are using todaysomething you dont normally see scuba divinga climbing harness. Ready
to go! With the ropes all set up, its time for
our team to rappel down into the cenote.
Jeff goes first to demonstrate. Next its my turn. While I have never started
a dive with a rappel, I did learn to rappel in high school. So I cant resist the urge
to show off a little.
The trees that we are rappelling down are
actually roots. They dont go down into the bottom. Once they reach the water, they
stop, with gap underneath that makes them look like anti-gravity trees! It takes a while to get everyone and their
gear down into the water. The divers can rappel, but all the tanks and cameras have to be lowered
carefully to us.
Elmer, Felipe and Carlos are working hard! At last with all of our gear, we can follow
the beams of sunlight down into the cenote. In the middle of the cenote is a debris pile,
principally made of the rock that fell when the ceiling collapsed, opening this cave to
sunlight. But towards the edges of the cenote, it gets deeper. Aaron leads the way to a permanent
guideline into the cave.
Soon we have passed into the cave, out of
sight of sunlight. We swim into a massive chamber, larger than
a basketball court. The water is crystal clear. At the back of the chamber, a passageway leads
into the wall.
As I approach, Aaron suggests I go first to get some great shots without
anyone kicking up the silt. I slowly head inside, not sure what to expect.
This is what I love about cave divingso much adventure exploring the unknown. And
there is something cool about swimming through a crack in the rock. I lead the way into a gorgeous passageway
that almost looks like a miniature riverbed, with pebbles paving the floor.
The white limestone
walls reflect my video lights, making beautiful illumination. In a few minutes, we reach an intersection and
Im not sure which way to go, so I stop and wait for Jeff and Aaron. Jeff gives us the turn around signthis
is as far as we go today. Heading back out I hang back a ways to get
some shots of Jeff and Todd ahead of me.
Working our way back towards the cavern, Aaron
removes a section of line he laid on the way in. Then we make our way back up into the
sunlit waters of the cavern. Jeff has found a cow bone in the debris pile.
Its not hard to image an animal wandering through the woods and accidentally falling
into this deep pit. Near the bone, the skull, complete with a few remaining teeth.
Finally we surface, and now the hard work
is about to begin. Woo hoo! To get us back out of the cenote, the guides
lower a rope ladder. Were not sure this is going to work, but
hopefully it will because were not very good at climbing trees! It looks like it will be easy to climb, but
I assure you, its not. First Jeff heads up while Aaron tries to keep it tensioned
so it wont flip around sideways.
Next its my turn. By halfway up my arms are burning
from the effort. Then its Cameraman Todds turn. Having fun yet? Fifty feet from the surface of the water to
the top of this cenote seemed like an eternity when I was climbing up and my arms were burning,
but it was so worth it! That was the most amazing dive! Not all cenotes are small holes with water
way down inside.
We take a walk through the woods to a cenote so large that it looks more
like a lake. And in a small town outside Merida we check
out the town wellwhich is just a cenote with a tiny opening. I would love to dive
in there, but they probably dont want a scuba diver in their water supply. Even today,
the cenotes allow access to clean, fresh water.
But to the Mayans, cenotes were not just sources
of water. Cenotes were also believed to be entrances
to the underworld--and therefore pathways to the Gods. In pre-Columbian times, the Maya people ruled
Central America. They built staggering cities, which included massive step-pyramids as temples
to the Maya gods.
They performed rituals that they believed would keep the gods happy--to
insure their good fortune. The Mayans would often throw offerings into
the cenotes to please Chaac, the rain God. Sometimes those offerings included human sacrifices. Would it be possible to dive in a cenote used
by the Mayans for human sacrifices? Thats where we are going.
Dont go away! Jonathans about to explore
a spooky underwater burial ground. Our team is piling into the truck and driving
back out into the bush to visit a very special cenote used by the Mayans for human sacrifices. We arrive at Cenote San Antonio. The opening
was enlarged and reinforced at some point to be rectangular.
But this tiny opening was
once an important place to the Mayans. So important that we had to get a special permit
to dive here. Once again our guides set up some pulleys
and rope to get us and our gear in and out of the cenote. It might be hard to believe, but this dive
is even more difficult than the last one.
There is no room for error, we will only get
one shot at this. Our team suits up with only a vague idea of
what we are going to see on the other side of that tiny hole in the ground. We start with a meeting to discuss our plan. Because of the way this cenote was formed,
it is safer to be lowered into it rather than rappel.
Aaron goes first. Once he gets down
there, I can see just how far down that is. I really dont want to climb a rope ladder
out of this. As they lower me into the opening and through
to the other side, I am swinging in free space as I descend, spinning with the rope! Im rock climbing! From down on the water, Aaron turns on a light
so I can see.
The room in here is massive! The ceiling is like a dome. You could never
climb out. This cenote is a deadly trap for anything that falls, or is thrown inside. Once Im in the water, I can see bats and
stalactites.
Soon, the guides lower the rest of the team,
tanks, and cameras--one at a time. Its a very slow process. By the time we
start our dive, I have been floating in the water more than half an hour. Im curious
though, exactly how they are going to get me out of here! But for the time being, I am ready with a
camera, lots of lights and my natural curiosity.
Aaron and Jeff lead us below. The sides of the cenote are covered in ancient
dripstone formationsformed probably during the last ice age when sea levels were lower
and this cenote was at least partially dry. The walls are made of sedimentary rock formed
from an ancient seabed. All kinds of shells are stuck in it, including this perfectly-formed
sea urchin skeleton.
As we drop further, I focus my camera on a
jawbone. Its the jaw of a horse, which probably fell in here by accident and drowned.
Nothing can escape this watery trap. Near the jaw, I find my first trace of a human
presencea broken piece of pottery. I have to get my head around the fact that this is
a pre-Columbian artifact more than a thousand years old.
Moving away from the walls and out into the
middle of the cenote, I find a bone. This is no horse boneits a human tibia, the
lower leg bone. And near it, the femur. Humans are buried here.
Not far away, a ghostly sighta human skull
resting peacefully next to a perfectly intact earthen bowl. At this depth in fact there are human remains
almost everywhere I turn. Aaron directs me to a field of human remains
laying out on the sand on the sand in plain view. This skull has its jaw sitting nearby.
Of course we dont touch or disturb anything.
Not only is this a gravesite, its part of an ongoing archaeological study. We can
look but we definitely cannot touch. There are easily dozens of bodies at the bottom
of this cenote, and I have to wonder what was happening here. Were these people sacrificed
to the Gods? Or were they simply people who died and were buried here? What amazes me about this place is the preservation
of the bones, which are at least 1,000 years old.
If only these bones could talk, what
would they tell us about life in the pre-Columbian Maya culture? Jeff and Aaron direct me to a shelf on the
wall at 90 feet. There, resting peacefully, the remains of two people. Did they know each
other? Is their proximity a coincidence? How did they get on this shelf? All questions
that will likely never be answered. Nearby, a jaw with molars that have cavities.
What can be learned of the ancient Mayans from clues like this? But not everything down here is about death.
This cenote has some of the most prolific cave fauna I have ever seen, including many
blind cavefish and a species of cave isopod I have never seen before.
With the dive coming to an end, we slowly
ascend and finally surface into the pitch darkness of the cenote. That was the spookiest
dive of my life and Im definitely ready to get back to the sunlit world above. Elmer, Felipe and Carlos have to lift each
of us, and all of our gear, out with a block and tackle. Its hard work and these guys
are stronger than they look! Hi guys! Thanks for hoisting me up! Merida Mexico is not particularly close to
the ocean, but the vast network of unexplored cenotes nearby and the rich Mayan history
of the area makes it one of the most fascinating dive destinations I have ever visited.
Without
question, Ill be back to explore more cenotes. Who knows what secrets they hold in their
deep blue depths..
(Lively symphonic music) - [Eddie] (speaking in a foreign language) - [Commentator] Okay,
before we go any further, this is a swiftlet. It's a small brown and black bird who's nests are a highly
sought after delicacy. Here in the Philippines, people
eat them in a soup called, well, Bird's Nest Soup. Typically, these nests are
found high, high up on cliffs.
Super hard to get to. - [Eddie] (speaking in a foreign language) - [Commentator] So when
these birds moved in, Eddie didn't kick them out, instead he gave them half his home. - [Eddie] (speaking in a foreign language) - [Commentator] So they
boil it, add some veggies, a bit of meat and voila: bird's nest soup. - [Eddie] (speaking in a foreign language) (lively piano music) - [Commentator] Understandably so.
Some people, they just
can't appreciate the smell of 80,000 birds worth of droppings. But Eddie and the swiftlets
have an arrangement. - [Eddie] (speaking in a foreign language) (harmonic dinging).
- I hate California. I want
to go to the east coast. I want to go where
culture is like New York. - How in the world did
I raise such a snob? - Or at least Connecticut or New Hampshire or where writers live in the woods.
- You can't even get in
those schools anyway. - Mom! - You should just go to city college. You know? With your work
ethic, just go to city college and then to jail, and
then back to city college and maybe you'd learn to pull yourself up and not expect everybody
to do everything-- - Lady Bird... Is that your given name? - Yeah.
- Why is it in quotes? - I gave it to myself,
it's given to me by me. - Lady Bird always says
that she lives in the wrong side of the tracks, but
I always thought that that was like a metaphor. But there are actual train tracks. - What you do is very baller.
It's very anarchist. - Put the magazine back. - She has a big heart, your mom. - She's warm but she's also kind of scary.
- You can't be scary and warm. - I think you can. Your mom is. - So you're not interested
in any catholic colleges? - No way.
I want schools like Yale,
but not Yale because I probably couldn't get in. - You definitely couldn't get in. - Does mom hate me? - If you're tired we can sit down. - I'm not tired.
- You were dragging your feet. - You are so infuriating. - Please stop yelling. - I'm not yelling.
Oh it's perfect! - Do you love it? - You both have such strong personalities. - When is a normal time to have sex? - You're having sex? - I'm ready. I just wanted it to be special. - Why? - You're gonna have so much
unspecial sex in your life.
- We're afraid that we
will never escape our past. - Whatever we give you, it's never enough. It's never enough. - It is enough.
- (Preacher) We're afraid of
what the future will bring... (Sirens) (preacher) We're afraid
we won't be loved... - You can't do anything unless you're the center of attention! - (Preacher) You won't be liked... - Yeah well you know your moms
tits, they're totally fake! - She made one bad decision at 19.
- Two bad decisions! - (Preacher) And we won't succeed. - I want you to be the very
best version of yourself that you can be. - What if this is the best version? - What I'd really like is
to be on math olympiad. - But math isn't something
you're terribly strong in.
Where we at bud? We're at Zealandia. What's Zealandia? I actually don't know, I think it's a Zoo. Haha, ready for a nature hike, bud. I am.
Good to go. Wow, this is gorgeous. Carrie I want you specifically to find the Kereku... Ke...
Kereru. The exotic cat. Hahaha. -Ah, yes, and...
-What the hell is that thing? -That's actually fictional Lord of the Rings, an Ururat. -Haha, I hate you. Yeah, baby. Yeah [HAHAHA] Get it.
What's the penetration situation like down there. -Ya there's a lot going on. Are they going to going to cuddle afterwards. Wow nature's beautiful O God.
Please watch your fucking... Haha, I'm trying to be a vlogger. How does Burnie do this shit? Oughrough Is that your call? Ohh, he's coming to shit on me. He does not like it.
He's like what did you call my mother? Oh look at you, do you know what the name of a bird looker is? No, what? I don't know, but if it's you it's an idiot! Hehehe... If there's a live bird crammed inside this box. I'm actually Gonna be more upset than impressed. Well, thank God for that Looks like they were getting it on and we interrupted them Takahe, it has a very sharp beak keep your distance Don't no don't don't.
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Hey Hey! Today on Jonathan Bird's Blue World A surprise visit to a Blue World fan's house! I got this! Hi, I'm Jonathan Bird and
welcome to my world! ( Music ) Recently, I got an e-mail from
Chris Whitlock the father one
of my biggest fans: Jake
Whitlock. He thought I might be
interested in this paper Jake
wrote as a homework assignment.
It turns out Jake's biggest dream is go
scuba diving with Jonathan
Bird. Well, you know sometimes dreams really do come true. Boy
do we have a surprise for Jake
today! But first the production team
has to find Jake's house.
You
would think someone would have brought a GPS! Kat: "It's right here " Jonathan: "You can throw a golf
ball across it." Jonathan: How can we be lost? With me is Kathryn Apse, a
scuba instructor who
specializes in certifying
younger divers. Jonathan: Hopefully he doesn't
see us coming. That would ruin
the whole thing. (Knock on door) ( knocking on door ) Jonathan:
"Hey hey" "Hey" "Hey Jake" "hi" Jonathan: "How are you doing
man?" Jake: "Good! What are you doing
here? Jonathan: "I got this from your
dad.
This paper that you wrote
about scuba diving with some guy name Jonathan Bird." Jake: "Oh my God" Jonathan: "Yeah. So here's the
thing..." Jake: "He sent that to you?" Jonathan: "Yeah. Here's the
thing. In order for you to go
scuba diving with me you
actually have to become a scuba diver.
"OH" Jonathan: "So guess what I have
here. I have a special person
to introduce you to." ( Jake gasps ) "This is Kat. She's going to be
your dive instructor." Kat: "Hi Jake" "Hi nice to meet you" Kat: "Alright to get started
with the certification here" "Umm" Kat: You're going to have a
little bit of reading. -"OK" Kat: "Here is your own dive
book.
We're going to get
started on that and once we
start doing dives. Your own dive log book." "Oh thank you. So cool." Kat: "You better start reading
right away mister." "Yeah" "We going to do classroom
portion and then jump into pool
and do some work with you in the pool." "OK" Kat: "Alright. When you're good
and ready you take an exam,
you'll pass flying colors no problem.
Then we'll hop into
the ocean" "OK" We meet Jake's parents, and
fill them in on Jake's
adventures to come. But we're
keeping a few things secret! Kat: "We're going to read
through that book. There's
going to be a bunch of questions your going have to answer." "OK" Jake has been dying to go scuba
diving since he was four years
old, when he did this drawing! Jake's mom: "Yeah he's wanted
to be under water for a very
very long time." What Jake doesn't know is that
the surprises are not over. But
first things first.
Jake has to learn to dive. In the classroom, Kat teaches
Jake about diving physics, the
basics of the gear and how to untangle a regulator. ...And then she takes him to
the pool where he must pass a
swimming test. You can't really be a scuba diver if you can't
swim.
Kat-'Twirl around" She checks to be sure he can
tread water... Kat: "Clap your hands" Jake: "What?" Kat: "Clap your hands" ...And he executes a perfect
cannonball. I'm not sure if a
perfect cannonball is part of
the class though. Once Kat knows Jake is
comfortable in the water, he's
ready for his first experience breathing from a scuba
regulator.
Kat: "So where's your hand
going to be? There you go, get
your feet in the water. Makes it a lot easier." But as he discovers, just
getting into the water with all
that gear is a bit of a
challenge! And then the big moment. Jake
breathes underwater for the
first time. Next Kat teaches him to control
his buoyancy using a small ring
through which Jake must swim without touching the edge.
It takes him a couple of tries,
but when he finally gets
it...Time for a little
underwater fun! Kat: "So how did you like it?" Jake: "It was amazing!" Kat: "Yeah?" Jake: "A dream come true" To prove he actually learned
something, Jake takes the
written final exam and aces it. With the classroom and pool
work behind him, now Jake must
prove his skills in open water. He and Kat will do two ocean
dives in the murky Atlantic,
off the coast of Massachusetts. The water is chilly, so Jake
needs a wetsuit.
He struggles a
bit with putting on a wetsuit for the first time. Kat and I are suiting up too. Jake: "I can't even get this
thing on!" With his dad watching in
amusement, Jake finally squirms
into the wetsuit and he is
ready to tackle the North Atlantic. I have made my way to the
water, ready to film Jake's
first open ocean dive.
Jake and Kat take a dive flag
to let boaters know where they
are. There's a last minute adjustment underwater, and then
Kat tests Jake with a series of
exercises and drills. She wants to make sure Jake
knows what to do in an
emergency. There's even a moment to
explore some wildlife--a rock
crab desperately trying to get
away.
And then his first of five
checkout dives is over. Kat: "The sharks were amazing!" There were no sharks. Jonathan: "So that was your
first real dive. What was it
like?" Jake: "It was amazing.
So much
fun being down there, swimming
around being able to breathe, seeing the rock formations.
Underwater with all the sea
weed on the was really cool
cause you can't real see them from up
here, but seeing them down
there was really cool." Jake's almost ready now, for
his adventure diving with me.
But we're not going to do it in the North Atlantic. No,
we are about to surprise Jake
again. We hop a plane to a tropical
island with crystal clear
waterGrand Cayman! Grand Cayman is a world-famous
diver's paradise in the heart
of the Caribbean. We stay at Sunset House,
world-renown as one of the
ultimate hotels for diving.
And later that day, yet another
surprise for Jake. Jonathan: "Jake! Just the guy
we're waiting for! Buddy! We
have a huge surprise for you. I. Want you to see something
humungous.
Check this out! Jake: "Oh my GOD!" Jonathan: "This is a gift for
you. This is from Subgear, and
Diver Supply and Sunset House. Jake: "Oh my GOD!" Jonathan: "I'm going to
introduce you to Adam who's
going to tell you about what
you have just won." Adam: "Mask, snorkel, fins,
with booties for you. We've got
suit so you're not cold for your dives.
A BCD and regulator
and a bag to carry it all in." Jake: "Thank you so much!" Adam: "You're very welcome!" Jonathan: "That is cool. You
know what. This is unfair. I'm
the host and I didn't get
anything." Jake: "I'm the lucky one." Jonathan: "You ARE the lucky
one." Jake: "I'm the star." Jonathan: "This is cool." Jake: "My show now." Jonathan: "WOW! I'm out of here
( laughs in the background ) Jake it turns out is also a
runway model.
Equipped with his new gear,
Jake goes with Kat for his
final checkout dives right off the dock at Sunset House. In the crystal clear water,
Jake practices his skills until
Kat believes he is ready to go exploring. Then Kat takes him on his first
tour of the amazing underwater
world of Grand Cayman Island. Kat: "Congratulations Jake you
are officially open water
certified!" Jake: "Thank you so much" Kat: "Now let's go diving!" Jake: "Yeah!" The next day, we head out to
the reef for a real dive, and
now that Jake is a certified diver, we can dive together.
First, a briefing about the
dive site, then you be able to
see top of reef there lots and lots
of fantastic coral.
Jonathan: "Are you ready?" "A huh" Jonathan: "Let's do it. GO!" Jonathan: "We're alive" Jake: "Yeah!" The Cayman Islands are built
from coral, which grows on top
of an underwater mountain range. I show Jake the drop off where
it gets really deep. Then we head into shallow water
to explore some fun passageways
through the reef.
As we get ready to return to
the surface, a little
celebration. What started as a
dream in a school paper came true.
Jake is having a blast! The next day, I have another
surprise for Jake, which I give
him on our way out to dive a shipwreck. Jonathan: "Jake you've been
through a lot this weekend so
we only have one more thing to
foist upon you. (Laughs) This is going to
be fun.
You get as your final
gift..." Jake: "OHHH" Jonathan: "...An authentic pair
of Force Fin Pros. That's the
exact same model I wear. These are a gift of Bob Evans and
Force Fin. He's the guy who
makes these things.
You'll
notice he even signed it for you." Jake: "OOOHH" Jonathan: "Yeah! Those are
authentic Force Fins" Jake: "OOOH. Thank you so much." Jonathan: "You're welcome." Jake: "You have to thank Bob
for me." Jonathan: "I will and you can
try on this dive if you feel
like it" Jake: "Yeah!" Jonathan: "Living dangerously!" Jake: "After all I heard how
much better these are." Jonathan: "They are!" Jake: "I think I have to
definitely have to try them." Jonathan: "Much better." Jonathan: "All right! Let's go
diving." Our next dive is on a
shipwreck. First Jake and I
listen to the dive briefing. Divemaster: "The Kittiwake was
a submarine rescue vessel it
was actually sunk this year.
In January it took form 10: 00
in the morning to 2:00 in the
afternoon for it to sink and here it lies." Jonathan: "All right, let's go
find this wreck. You ready
Jake?" "Yes" Jonathan: "Let's do it!" Jake and I hit the water and
can't believe how well we can
see the entire wreck! The water is extremely clear! The Kittiwake was sunk as an
artificial reef in January of
2010. It hasn't been down very long. The ship was thoroughly
cleaned, all toxic materials
were removed, and dangerous pieces detached before the ship
was sunk.
It's still like new
though. It hasn't been underwater long enough to build
up much encrusting sea life. There is one homesteader who
moved in immediately though.
This Goliath Grouper just hangs
out here on the sand by the
propeller. He must be used to
divers because he isn't bothered by us at all.
The Kittiwake rescued sailors
from damaged submarines, and
much of its history is still classified. It's in only 67 feet of water,
an ideal depth for recreational
divers. It's so shallow at the top that even snorkelers
can enjoy this wreck! Jake and I swim above the
decks, exploring the ship,
imagining her secret past, the
sailors who served here, and the
adventures she had in the
service of the U.S. Navy.
Shipwrecks are fun to explore! In the Kittiwake's wheel house
Jake takes control of the ship.
He may have a lot more trouble with getting a drivers'
license than he did with a
scuba certification! And these jacks aren't taking
any chances either.
They're
getting out of the way. Jake, newly certified and
diving in the Cayman Islands,
truly is king of the world. We have one last treat for Jake
we can't pass up while
here--diving with the stingrays. Now there's two stingray cities
on the island.
We've got the
dive site, which we're on at the moment and the sandbar
where they take all the cruise
shippers. OK. So the sandbar is about 3ft deep and you just
paddle about and they just
brush up against you and all that sort of stuff. You don't
get a chance to feed them like
you do here.
OK. We got some squid and feed them. Most Stingrays don't readily
approach humans. But here on
Grand Cayman, years of fishing waste thrown overboard has
attracted them.
Stingrays are related to
sharks, but as you can see
they're quite docile. The defend themselves with a
sharp venomous barb at the end
of their tail, but they are rarely aggressive. This is what divers feed them.
Little pieces of squid.
Appetizing, huh? Sometimes you can lead them
around with your hand, kind of
teasing them until you give them the food. Jake discovers the trick for
feeding the stingrays.
You have
to put the food in your palm and let them do the work. It does
take some practice. Eventually Jake and I have a
stingray mini-feeding frenzy on
our hands. One of them develops a crush on
Cameraman Tim and won't leave
him alone.
I think Tim likes her! And so after the dive at
Stingray City, we prepare to
leave the Cayman Islands. And
would you believe it? Jake's school
paper, in which he dreams about
diving with some guy named Jonathan Bird, magically came
true. ( Music ).
