CoastLine

Accurate Coastline

The sea indented the coastline.

That looks like a coastline.

We still think it is pristine.

What's the length of the coastline of these lakes?

like the most pristine environment in the United States.

But we have started studying pristine reefs only very recently.

And when you go to the pristine side, did this ever bleach?

And if we look at a very pristine environment like western Australia,

And the reason we know this is that the gas is not pristine.

And then I went out for years trying to photograph the pristine landscape.

Little fishing villages that dot the coastline are like the sea that sustains them capricious.

Theoretically, if you can create a vortex barrier. Along the coastline, a wall of wind,

This is at the pristine Azores Islands and this is how their beaches look.

There are still places in the sea as pristine as I knew as a child.

When we went to pristine reefs, we realized that the natural world was upside down this pyramid was inverted.

And that's the deep sea, that's the environment that we consider to be among the most pristine left on Earth.

It's 115 miles of mapped passage, it's pristine, it has no natural opening and it's a gigantic biological, geo microbiological laboratory.

Talk to me about the feeling that you must have experienced of going to these pristine areas and seeing things coming back.

And because that flytower has the ability to pick up all the pristine elements, suddenly the rest of the environment can be provisional.

And on my dive, I went down 18,000 feet, to an area that I thought would be pristine wilderness area on the sea floor.

Very unlikely, Joe would jump on a pristine coral reef, a virgin coral reef with lots of coral, sharks, crocodiles, manatees, groupers, turtles, etc.

The concept of length of coastline, which seems to be so natural because it's given in many cases, is, in fact, complete fallacy there's no such thing.

This sea is an archipelago belonging to Kiribati that spans across the equator and it has several uninhabited, unfished, pristine islands and a few inhabited islands.

I just was with some friends, and we drove randomly to a different place, and we ended up in this non tourist location, a beautiful village, pristine.

Hey, we as architects had better not show up and do a pristine building that doesn't engender the same freedoms that this old dilapidated shed provided the company.

Each cylinder is about 10 percent ancient air, a pristine time capsule of greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide all unchanged from the day that snow formed and first fell.

We have to deal with the fact that, along the coastline, we are destroying the coastal habitats where the majority of all forms of life will spend time, whether it is coral reefs or mangroves.

We capture it in a very special device on the front of the submersible that allows us to bring it up in really pristine condition, bring it into the lab on the ship.

I went to a new pristine population of Southern right whales that had only been discovered about 10 years ago in the sub Antarctic of New Zealand, a place called the Auckland Islands.

Because we've solved the problem in Chubut province, which is like a state in Argentina where Punta Tombo is so that's about 1,000 kilometers of coastline but we haven't solved the problem in northern Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.

Whether you live in Peru, at the source of the Amazon River, or you live along the coastline makes no difference, and if you drop something out there, at the source of the Amazon River , it will end up in the Atlantic Ocean.

Not only do these places these ancient, pristine places have lots of fish, but they also have other important components of the ecosystem like the giant clams pavements of giant clams in the lagoons, up to 20, 25 per square meter.

And what we want with these pictures is to create a discussion about what we have that is pristine on the planet and what we must hold on this planet if we want to live, to have some equilibrium in our life.

If you look back at the tapes of those weather systems, and you look five days prior to that, you'll see that in those days preceding those events, there was all kinds of aerosols being sprayed all along the California coastline, where the moisture for those storms came from, where those storm systems originated.