‘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.
The Saratoga is one of the world’s largest shipwrecks; it was sunk during what was known as ‘Operation Crossroads’. Twenty-three atomic bombs were test-detonated over and within the Bikini Atoll shortly after the end of the Second World War. It is a story of total destruction, but also a story of how life returns.
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. This story was first published a year and a half ago. Since then, Johan […]
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.
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.
