Documentary filmmaker Johan Candert is at Bikini Atoll, diving into a strange sea. 80 years ago, the US detonated 23 nuclear bombs here, wiping out all life. But what Johan sees is a sea that is recovering. Life is coming back.
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I swim past the contours of two large gun barrels but they are almost completely covered in glassfish. I have never seen such a large school before. We swim on and slowly sink along the hull of the USS Saratoga. It's 52 metres to the bottom.
This is the story of a very remote place in one of the least visited countries on earth. And about people forced into exile.
‘Bikini Reborn’ is a follow-up to the documentary “Ocean Dreams”, a film about the ocean’s resilience when we leave it alone. When it is given a chance to heal, life can return. In ‘Bikini Reborn’, you can follow coral researchers Sylvia Jagerroos and Didier Zoccola as they dive at the Bikini Atoll in search of surviving corals.
