Great whales: Michael Fischbach at TEDxHaarlem
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2012
- When Michael Fischbach and his family saw Valentina, they first thought she was dead. But when they got closer, they realised the great whale was still breathing. The fins and tail of Valentina were wrapped in fishing lines which dragged her down. The only way to save her, was to cut her free of the fishing net. Michael and his family succeeded and Valentina was very grateful. The event changed Michaels' live. To make sure the great whales will survive all the threats they face today, he founded The Great Whale Conservancy to speak and work on behalf of these magnificent animals.
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So Beautiful! Couldn't hold back the tears at the end there...
Petite Paroxysm same
If you don't cry, you're not human
@@solarisseven6969 gb×
Those are what heros look like
Pass the tissue please.
Amazingly beautiful animals - God Bless you for saving Valentina!
This just changed my life
Thank you so much for all you do kind brother.
In that boat was a group of heroes and a daughter that will look up to her mom forever. It's been 8 years. I hope that girl follows in her footsteps and sprints past her shadow.
thank you so much for your efforts. Little kid cute "..she's showing us she's all free..". Learning from example, kid is likely to grow up an ocean advocate. thanks for that too!
Wonderful Amazing and so thankful you saved this beautiful whale, Moved me to tears,Good luck with the great work you are doing to bring public awareness to the whales plight,
Greed controls their fate. Money above all else
Love that humpback and so cool that they rescued her. Now she can go rescue some seals and other smaller animals from orca. Awesome!
Orca have to eat too...
Orca attacks humpbacks too...
Could they not just put a mandatory regulation for every ship to have some sort of alerting device for whales to pickup? I'm thinking if echo-location is not enough for them to get alerted, then maybe some sort of device that would emit a sound within their hearing frequency spectrum would do the job, a ship horn for whales.
That's what I was thinking. Like deer whistles for cars. It could transmit their warning call from the bottom of the ship.
You are so right. How can they possible not see them on their sonar? Good point
They have no problem hearing the ships they are overwhelmed with all the sounds the ships make and have a hard time using their sonar. Also as he said they are not very attentive when eating apparently.
Can we just stop killing our planet and her children
@@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears Noise pollution.
I heard the song of the world's last whale
As we rocked in the moonlight and reefed the sail.
“If it happens to me, also, without fail
It'll happen to you.”
sang the world's last whale.
Great and fantastic work to save that great animal.
A very touching job! Beautiful video & wonderful talk.
WOW! I Loved this Thank You all!
Wonderful to see you working to save whales in the St. Lawrence and Pacific from ship strikes. We've been both places, love to see the whales, and worry that ships move too fast for whales to avoid them. You said we can't ask the whales to leave the krill (8:10), so we have to move the ship channels, and you need massive help to move the ship channels. While working on that, we need a complementary approach in the short term. We need to emit sounds in the ship channel ahead of each ship, and place more buoys to delineate the channels, so whales know exactly where it is (especially in the St. Lawrence where there isn't much space). The whales are smart enough to learn what the sounds and buoys mean, and move their feeding aside while a ship passes. We've seen blue whales move in response to a slow research boat, even while feeding, which suggests that they could respond to signals ahead of a freighter.
The best Ted talk ever made. Nice cut bro!
Heart wrenching I love her passion
Beautiful!
The end was amazing! :')
Isn't this the guy who saved the whale from a fishing net
Clyde Swadener watch to the end 😊
bless you great man !
Thanks for sharing 😊
What an incredible rescue!
Well done!
Great Salute .....
The ending is overwhelming
😢😢😢
Amazing!
The World need to see this. They need to know about this!
When it comes to freeing whales it is full SPEEDO ahead!
By far the most advanced life forms known to man, and we have nearly wiped them out before we've even begun to understand them. no wonder the ocean is blue.
Im not sure if I missed it, but is there any idea why whales don't get out of the way of the ships. I'm not saying they should have to, or that we shouldn't have safe areas for whalews - we should.
But my understanding is whales - or at least some whales - have a really good 3d picture of what is around them mainly based on audio signals.
We see footage of whales sensing humans in the water and gently touching them with a flipper or moving so they don't collide etc, so do we understand why they can't sense or maybe don't respond to a deteced ship?
What can one do in Utah for you? I would love to physically help!
I am trying to wrap my head around the fact their tails are twenty feet wide.
I never thought I’d ever call a guy in a Speedo a hero but here it is.
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I'm sure Seaworld can help out
I can't believe the Blue Whales 🐳 are almost gone.
I would love to attend one of these expositions. Are there any in the midwest? They are better beings than humans.
If we are to help change shipping lanes, who regulates That? Shipping companies ? Local governments? Global corporations? You have to know who we are addressing.
One would assume he means federal governments and international entities like the EU.
They only care about money. Everything else is secondary
I have a life ambition to hug a blue whale and I will be devastated if they’re gone before I get out there
It's so sad what we do to this plannet
Corporations ,not us.
Was it a thank you or was she trying to get the rest of the netting off her tail by slamming into the water and getting the water moving hard against her fluke to swoosh the netting off. I think it was both. Plus she needed to get her circulation going again. Nah, it was definitely a thank you.
Katie Kat She was happy to finally be free from one of man's most lethal inventions toward marine life. Do you know how many animals are unintentionally caught in nets every year? No joke, tens of millions! Probably more!
It was a thank you…
Why is this not done, Man does not CARE These ships can go another way they do have the money that is a for sure And Yes People know, it is just they do not want to do anything about it, OK Some do and these ships can be built better from what I hear and safer And Canadian did put a speed on these ships but took it off The People did not get up about that I know this makes some people SAD it makes me Sad and I try to tell people about it and they think me mad I live in ON in the woods and they wonder why I am worried about it and I try but to NO END I AM SAD TO SAY
It's all about the profit $$$ the one true god
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 only 10000 left
I never knew that they have two blow holes.
Because greedy corporations don’t care. If it costs them a little more money corporations are like no
Great talk and great job saving that whale, but dude get a pair of shorts instead of that speedo
Yeah - IDK what was more disturbing . . . the entangled fishing line or those speedos.
No. Of dislikes are harpooner
Get this info out to the popular tik tokers so they can spread the word.
Stewardship, in the Christian tradition, implies protection. [Hu]Man should exist in harmony with the Earth, not work against it as is noted in Colossians 1:16-17
Middle eastern monotheism in the form of Islam and Christianity is the biggest threat of humanity and planet in the 21st century
If the whales are so smart, tell them to stay away from ships.
Touche'